Courses
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Apres Ski: Eco Village Les Diablerets
In this studio, we will look at the other side of the “coin” of the rapid urbanization phenomena. As we discuss the need to strategize…
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“You Can’t Die in Disney World” A ZOO (as in chaos)
\” You Can\’t Die in Disney World \” A ZOO ( as in chaos ) A current visit to the Disciplinary Zoo of…
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Indebted Architecture
The project is to analyze and design buildings as if their forms correlate to the movement of thought. In order to do so, several existing…
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IN THE LAND OF ÑANDUTí: following the lines, threads, and figures of the river
This studio will have water as its most conspicuous element. Inside, around and over it, we would develop proposals for intervention in an area of…
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Real and Imaginary Variables (Final): Global Arenas
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, we will explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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High-rise / High-density
Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates
We are interested in questions of housing in the city and, in this instance, in how an American typology – the high-rise multi-story apartment building…
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Another nature
Currently, when considering the nature of architecture, isn’t it problematic to simply define it as an ‘artifact’ or ‘artificial environment’ that is conceived and constructed…
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Borrominations, or the Auratic Dome
Thousands of lives sharing their lack of reciprocity and involvement under a single roof: this seems to be the way in which public space functions…
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Thermodynamic Materialism Applied to Dense Urban Conglomerates, Two Chinese Case Studies
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler
This option studio will focus on the new wave of urbanization of medium scale cities in China characterized by large infrastructure expansion, interest in sustainable…
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Barcelona’s Grids: in Search of New Paradigms
FRAMEWORK. The construction of modern Barcelona can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies. This process spanning two centuries features…
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Los Angeles Study Abroad Studio: The Possibilities of the Wrong Scale
Los Angeles has for most of its life had a deeply ambivalent relationship with the more canonical vision, forms, and mechanisms of urbanism. While seen…