Courses
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Percent for Art: A New Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
In the option studio, we design a new building for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw by re-using the structure of a large-scale shopping…
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Architecture or the City
Today, it would be reasonable to argue that the architecture of urban morphology is more visibly autonomous than at any time since the advent of…
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Mingei and its Future: Hida Takayama, Japan
The studio looks at the legacy of Mingei, the “Craft of the People.” Mingei is a philosophy developed in the 1920s in Japan by Soetsu…
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Translogic Studio: A Proto-Urban Vertical Monastery
For this Studio we will focus on typological transformation and archetypal hybridization, integration of design and technology, and the relationship between precedent, speculation, and invention…
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Kit House II
This studio has two objectives. The first is to revisit an icon of American vernacular. The second, to reflect on the design process itself, on…
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The Temporary Contemporary: Assembling a Public in Downtown Los Angeles
The contemporary is a moving ratio of modernity, moving through the recent past and near future in a nonlinear space that gauges modernity…
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Urban Glitch
Urban Glitch is a studio designed to research the pressing issue of systems-linked architecture in relation to the complex and intertwined ecological and social imperatives…
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Long Living Spolia
Spolia, derived from the Latin word for "spoils" or "booty," involves repurposing art and architectural elements from previous constructions or demolished structures. The practice dates…
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Rethinking Metabolic Rift: Tokyo: Architecture Between Scales and Typologies
Can Tokyo be a cultural city, a city that is cognizant of the “metabolic rift”—the often-inevitable environmental degradation that accompanies urbanization—and yet committed to confronting…
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Nordic Urban Weave: On Domesticity and Civic Continuity
Set within Copenhagen’s post-industrial Nordhavn District, the studio investigates the global challenges of water resiliency and housing—a common yet complex condition in many harbor cities…
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The Coming Community
In The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben recounts the following tale, as told by Walter Benjamin to Ernst Bloch: "The Hassidim tell a story about the…
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Magna Parens Materia
In the last century, architects have been driven by market conditions to build with the highest possible combination of CO2-heavy materials, including steel and reinforced…
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Reconstructions | Abandoned Lands + Abolitionist Futures
Harvard University has recently confronted its history with the release of a report detailing the institution's complicity in enslavement, stretching back to its founding. This…
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Biospheric Urbanism – Changing Climates
The Option Studio ‘Biospheric Urbanism’ explores how cities can be made more resilient in the light of the ongoing changes of climate. Conceived as a…
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The Landscapes of the Norwegian Scenic Routes
Over the past thirty years, the "Norwegian Scenic Routes" project has produced imaginative buildings and landscapes in poetic dialogue with Norway's unique scenery and road…
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Bangkok Porous City: New Landscapes of Equity and Prosperity 2.0
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kotchakorn Voraakhom, Ignacio Bunster-Ossa
This studio will bring together faculty and students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to imagine how the last development parcel where river and city meet in…
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Wild Ways 3.0: California Connectivity
Site: Territorial California, from Death Valley to the Central Valley and the Sierra Madre Mountains This studio will explore themes of peri-urban, rural, regional, and…
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Under the Palm Trees
Sultan Youssef ben Tachfine founded in the 11th century Marrakech as the new capital of the Maroc empire in the middle of a desert plateau…
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Extreme Urbanism 9 – Imagining Housing as Urban Form
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai was the sixth most expensive city globally to rent an…
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New New Zealand Housing: Recasting the Good Life at Mid-Density
The studio is about housing and recasting ideas of the good life amidst contemporary challenges. It centers on the currently unfolding housing legislation in New…
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Envisioning the Rural Metropolis
With the United Nations estimating 250 million climate refugees by 2050, there are depopulating inner areas in Europe and the United States that, while often…
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Designing the Conditions: The Return of the Public Developer
The studio explores the role of design in emerging forms of public-sector housing development in the United States. Our testing ground is a former industrial…
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City as Resource
”When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that…