Courses
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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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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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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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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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A Bridge and a Pavilion in Bilbao
The studio will focus on the design of a pedestrian bridge and a pavilion in Bilbao, Spain. The pedestrian bridge crosses the Ria del Bilbao…
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Baseball in the City
Project: Yankee StadiumThere has been little academic attention given to the design of stadiums. The lack of critical thinking is evidenced in the default formula…
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Automotive Design as a Laboratory for Disciplinary Dynamics
It may be a clichi to notice that the disciplinary boundaries of architecture have been loosened by advances in information technology, but it is not…
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Berlin: The Museum Island and Beyond
Berlin: The Museum Island and BeyondAn architectural vision for the extension of the Museum IslandA new gallery for the Old MastersBerlin\’s Museum Island is the…
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Dublin Studio
Dublin Studio Karen McEvoy & Merritt BucholzIn collaboration with Matthias SchullerDublin StudioA CITY is a living organism, continually mutating, continually seeking equilibrium, continually challenged to…
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Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, Mexico
Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, MexicoPlease note that the lottery for this option studio has already occurred. The studio focus on the municipality of Tepotzotlan, which…
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Parks and Cities: Climate, Experience, and Frugality as Design Engines
The site of the studio is one of the last building sites in New York City\’s Battery Park City, a small city block between the…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River DeltaThe Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of…
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Designing Parks
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully. Course motives:The studio aims to develop the student\’s ability to design urban parks…
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Expanding Boston’s Core: Somerville and Its Competitive Context
1. Context of the problemThe inner part of the Boston region started to assume it contemporary pattern after the Civil War when economically independent and…
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Planning in Paradise II: Urban Redevelopment Honolulu, Hawaii
The city of Honolulu, which encompasses the island of Oahu, is both the county seat and the capital city of Hawaii. Seventy-two percent of the…
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Revealing Houston’s Midtown Disposition
Like other sprawling cities, Houston is witnessing a reinvestment in its central areas. Companies and businesses looking for a key location, as well as young…
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Nansha: Rethinking Urbanism and Landscape in the Pearl River Delta
The Pearl River Delta in southern China is a notorious demonstration of the urban effects of rapid economic development. On the east bank, the Special…
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Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, Mexico
Alternative Futures for Tepotzotlan, MexicoPlease note that the lottery for this option studio has already occurred. The studio focus on the municipality of Tepotzotlan, which…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…
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Independent Thesis for the Degree Master in Design Studies
Thesis for MDesS…