Courses
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Re-Entering Boston Symphony Hall, by Way of Marfa, Texas
The studio will be in two parallel parts. The first will focus on exploration of strategies of minimalism mostly in art, but to some degree…
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Sighting the Cirque du Soleil
Founded by a small group of former street performers from rural Quebec, the Cirque du Soleil mounted its first show under an 800 seat tent…
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Building in and for Marfa TX: A Train Station Hotel and the Marfa Baths
The studio will design a project across the street from the Judd Foundation, on Main Street in Marfa, Texas. Programmatic requirements will include: a train…
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Light/Materiality/Threshold: A Community Boathouse for Martha’s Vineyard
Site:Located on the west shore of Vineyard Haven Harbor, the community boathouse site negotiates the edge condition between land and water, including a rocky beach…
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Options: New York Docklands Museum and Cultural Center
Located on the East River adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the site is a threshold site which negotiates the edge condition…
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Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Site:Located on a rolling landscape within the White Oak tree canopy of Martha\’s Vineyard\’s Menemsha Hills, the site offers a sense of spatial complexity and…
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Constructed Landscapes: An Aquarium for Puerto Rico / A Collaborative Studio with the University of Puerto Rico
An Aquarium for Puerto Ricosite:Located between a private airport and the new Convention Center for the city of San Juan, the site is a contested…
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Back to Maddalena
Please note the course schedule below.Stefano Boeri + conrad-bercahBACK TO MADDALENAa tourist epicenter for the young at the ex US Navy base after the 2009…
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Computational Design and Material GestaltPerformative Wood: Reciprocities of Form, Material, Structure and Environment
\”The manifest form – that which appears – is the result of a computational interaction between internal rules and external (morphogenetic) pressures that, themselves, originate…
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RioStudio
The Graduate School of Design vs. Business School Studio aims to combine the creative experimentation of the designers with the rigorous number crunching of the…
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Itinerant Architecture
The world we live in today is complex, afflicted with various risks and instabilities. This is particularly true for underserved communities, whose situations require, but…
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Kyoto Studio
Kyoto Studio proposes research at two different scales. The first is at the scale of object-creation. The second is observing how these micro-economies of traditional…
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Kyoto Studio II: Seasons and Architecture
This studio will explore architecture as a responsive entity to seasons in climate, economy, politics and socio-cultural landscape. Through the analysis of building paradigms and…
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The Function of Time: Cultural Complex
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused at exploring the architectural potentials of time and uncertainty in large cultural complexes to…
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Dualisms: A House, A Palace
The majority of our programs can be synthesized, whether public or private, in approximately 9 (±2) different types of rooms distinguished in terms of scale,…
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Inside and Outside the Box/ A Chelsea Addition
The studio will focus on additions and connections to a loft building in Chelsea. The building is the home of The Kitchen, a not-for-profit institution…
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Scarcity
This studio is about doing Social Housing in Chile. Why? Because the scarcity of time (urgency to solve the need for shelter) and money (lack…
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Chile MMX
In MMX Chile will complete 200 years of independent republican life. There are 2 major projects in Santiago to celebrate this occasion:A Hill and a…
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The Chilean Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. The rigorous construction of a pleasant place
The most clarifying description about what architecture is supposed to do, was given by the Chilean architect Fernando Perez, in an essay entitled the Mirror…
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Shadow Cities: Nomads + Nanomaterials
Interdisciplinary and collaborative, the SHADOW CITIES studio at the GSD explores the intersection of architecture, technology development and social action. More than 2 billion people…
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Before Motown – After Techno: Designing for the Detroit Musical Continuum
Detroit has attitude, energy and grit – all qualities that allowed it to create sounds that revolutionized the world of music. Its musical legacy and…
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SOFT SPACE: AGILE INVOLUTION Sustainable Strategies for Textile Architecture
This interdisciplinary option studio will explore the integration of flexible solar nano-materials with lightweight textile construction as a new medium for soft space and distributed…
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Crossing: Border Station Studio
Crossing: Border Station Studio The US General Services Administration has a mandate to accelerate the delivery of new border stations along the US borders with…
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Toward an Industrial Ecology for New Caofeidian
AN INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY FOR NEW CAOFEIDIAN Professor: Nanako Umemoto [email protected] Teaching Associate: Neil Cook [email protected]: A Chinese model of development? \”China can no…
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Global Redesign Project 2. Resonance: Virtual and Real: Design of a Performing Arts Center
GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE ART CENTER SYLLABUS GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF…
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Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House
Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House+++A Natural Form of Architectural Narration and ConstructionIn ancient Chinese landscape painting, \”hill and water\” typology consists of \”hill and…
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Transforming Melnea Cass Boulevard: Architecture, Transport and Regeneration in Central Boston
People have growing awareness about how they want to organise the environments in which they live, work and trade. Users and owners of houses and…
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Unfinished Work III
This third installation of ‘Unfinished Work’ will broaden the research and design interests developed in the last two studio sessions. In the first studio,…
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Architects’ Club : Clerkwell : London
As London has the world’s highest number of international working graduates in the field of architecture, there is need for an independent* club where they…
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The Architectural Double in the Museum City
The studio will examine the notions of the Museum City and the Architectural Double through the design of a new free-standing building for the Museum…
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$3200. Exercises on Elementary Architecture Throughout the Chilean Territory
PLASTIC A low-income house in Chile costs US $7000, land and infrastructure included. Each family, having saved at least US$ 300, is eligible to get…
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Exhibition and Introspection: New Building Complex for the Art Institute of Boston
site:The site is located between the busy chaos of Mass. Ave. and a quite residential neighborhood of Historic Avon Hill in Cambridge near the T-stop…
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A Conservatory for the Botanical Garden at Cornell Plantations
The horticultural conservatory is one of the most fascinating building types in the whole history of modern architecture. From Joseph Paxton\’s and Decimus Burton\’s early…
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City of Knowledge
Approaching the \’City of Knowledge\’ along the Charles river you sense that you are passing into a place apart. The surreal spires, boldly shaped and…
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Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal
Site:Guincho – the region between earth and sea – consists of a rough topography of cliffs, heavy stones and persistent wild vegetation. It is the…
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Paffard Keatings-Clay: Mastery Through Innovation, Innovation Through Mastery
Issues/themesModernism: there is more meat on that bone.Working within the disciplineThe canon, challenging it, contributing to itExcellence requires StandardsExcellence vs. novelty as a core valueArchitecture…
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Super Tall: Performance and Atmosphere
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.Today we are embarking on a new phase in building design and manifestation that…
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The GINA Studio
The GINA Studio.Harvard University 2008.Body WorkGINA – is an acronym for a formal and functional design philosophy based on an emerging technology developed by engineers…
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Global Redesign Project I: Le Kinkeliba
OVERVIEW Le Kinkeliba is a small but highly successful bottom-up medical and educational NGO aid organization founded in 1995 by Dr. Gilles Degois of Paris.
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Dense + Green
In the context of today\’s debates on sustainable approaches for high density cities, contemporary architectural practice increasingly seeks new possibilities for integrating green spaces in…
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End(eavors) Game
When the \”age of the world picture\” gave way to the \”first machine age,\” architecture went from being a book to being a machine, from…
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Fun Palace II
Cedric Price spent most of his career designing, promoting and building his most famous work known as The Fun Palace. Even though the project was…
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workplan
workspheres The office is no more. We work anywhere, anytime. We don’t have professions any longer. We don’t even think we work, it’s just…
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Alimentary Design
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
If you are what you eat, this studio will investigate how and what we eat can be used as a catalyst to reconsider architecture and…
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Alimentary Design: The Final Course
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
This year, the Alimentary Design studio will address the more tacit and palpable relationship that we have to food by working closely with leading experts…
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A Field of Schools: Rethinking the Relationship Between School and City in San Diego
SummaryThe studio revises the predominant models of school design in the United States by addressing more effectively the relationship between the school and its surrounding…
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Beijing: Urbanism
After Marco Polo finishes his stories about Venice, Kublai Khan, in return, offers his version of invisible cities:City of Walls, Introverted City, City of Horizon,…
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Border Station: San Ysidro, California
Just north of the line dividing the United States and Mexico, the US government is planning the construction of its newest border facility in San…
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Educational Center
Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky
This studio will explore architecture\’s role in support of a public institution. An institution\’s goals and ideals are manifest in a program that underlies how…
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Repetition and Culture
Contemporary architecture is preoccupied with being interesting. What is interesting today can soon become tiresome. The character of cities has little to do with their…