Courses
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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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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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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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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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Weather Monitoring Station
WEATHER MONITORING STATION IN ICELAND The studio will look at current and future digital technologies / soft wares, which are applied in the study for…
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Architecture Museum
Site: Azenhas do Mar – a topographically rich reality, full of sounds and odors. A place that reveals the physical and metaphysical presence of \”materials\”.
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i+a
This studio will investigate the boundaries between physical architecture and information architecture. It will explore the possibilities designing physical and virtual spaces in conjunction with…
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Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building
Public buildings are rarely without controversy. Their physical presence is bound to raise questions about their very nature, be it by the community they serve…
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Coffee, Cake, CAD/CAM: Re-inventing the Urban Diner
Diner:\”A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car.\” The American Heritage.
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Gardens and Parks
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Matthew Urbanski
The studio will be cotaught by Michael Van Valkenburgh, the Charles EliotProfessor of Landscape Architecture, and Matthew Urbanski, who is a Lecturerin Landscape Architecture. The…
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Alternative Futures for Pueckler – Muskau Land
In the early nineteenth century, Prince Hermann von Pueckler-Muskau(1785-1871) laid out a huge landscape park on his estates at Muskau, nowdivided by the German-Polish border.
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Lost and Found: New York City’s Small Urban Spaces
The studio will study some of the many small urban spaces that can be found scattered throughout Manhattan, Boston, and other inner city areas throughout…
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Havana, Cuba IV: La Rampa – A 20th Century Modern Preservation District
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design capability and interest in the following areas: Urban design and planning at the master…
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Backward and Forward in Time: Urban Rehabilitation in the Xicheng District of Beijing
Today, unlike earlier periods when the proverbial \”urban bulldozer\” was encouraged to move through dilapidated innercity areas with a certain alacrity, making way for new…
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Reinterpreting 1960s Urbanism; Case 1: Tandy Center, Fort Worth, Texas
This studio, kindly sponsored by the PNL Companies of Dallas, Texas, will deal with a recurrent and endemic North American urban design problem: an important…
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Planning in Paradise: Urban Redevelopment – Honolulu, Hawaii
Prerequisites:A high degree of design interest and some degree of computer literacy is expected, as this studio will focus on urban planning and design issues…