Courses
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The Subject and the City
This seminar takes as its premise that a history and theory of the city cannot be known without an accompanying history and theory of the…
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Urban Grids: Score for Designing the City: Seminal Projects
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of…
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Berlin Study Abroad Seminar: Plattenbau vs. the New Communal. Mass Housing, Alternative Dwelling Models, and a theory of Shared Spaces in Germany
With equal emphasis on historical and theoretical analysis, this seminar investigates the potential offered by various forms of historic alternative dwelling, and new ways to…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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Berlin Study Abroad Seminar: The Urban Architecture of Berlin: From Schinkel to the Present
After abstract modernist planning lost contact with the physical aspects of the built environment, we returned to looking at the city at the scale of…
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Territorial Intelligence in Landscapes of Production
In this millennium of intense urbanization, design and its value will strengthen around the assurance of data gathering and its argumentation as evidence of complex…
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Environment, Economics, and Enterprise
Holly Samuelson, Frank Apeseche
How can one optimize the benefits of environmental or social sustainability while generating a higher return on investment in buildings? Where are the opportunities for…
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Territorial Organization Beyond Agglomeration: Towards an Atlas of the Global Hinterland
This research seminar starts with an understanding of urbanization as a process of generalized territorial organization where cities, metropolises, megalopolises are the focal points in…
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20th Century African Cities
General Context Most capital cities in Africa were designed and built during European colonization. Although capital cities were originally modest in size, they were…
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Research Seminar on New Towns in China
This research seminar is the first phase of a 2 1/2 year research project on new towns sponsored by the China Vanke Co. Vanke is…
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Livelihoods and Urban Form: Mumbai in a Comparative Perspective
Small-scale manufacturing in workshops and homes, small-scale trading on street corners or makeshift markets, car guarding, waste collecting, among a myriad of informal activities, is…
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SURPLUS HOUSING: Models of Collective Living in South America.
Housing as typology is one of the richest representations of a city’s history and evolution of culture. The gradual collection of dwellings in multiple forms…
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REAL: Genome of the Built Environment: Measuring the Unseen
The built environment is one of the most fascinating yet enigmatic artifact of the human being. We perceive it as a complex entity resulting from…
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Discourse and Methods I
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (Ph.D. students from other departments may participate with…