Courses
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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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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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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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BOMBAY STUDIO: Urban Adjustments Negotiating the Kinetic and Static City
Location: The city of Bombay (now Mumbai) with over 12 million residents. India\’s financial center, with perhaps the world\’s most prolific film industry. 5 million…
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privately owned, publicly accessible: negotiating with the academic prestige
_FACTSColumbia University is both a leading academic institution of the world and one of the most constrained for space. At 326 square feet per student,…
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Dance Space
This studio will be concerned with the design of a mobile and experimental dance theater for a site in Boston and another site in Stuttgart,…
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Migrating Coastlines: Emergent TranFORMations for Dubai, U.A.E.
Emergent TransFORMationsToday\’s emergent digital techniques allow us to deal with the full complexity of material systems, by offering the tools to create effects that exceed…
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Individual/Serial: A New Architecture for NYC Parks
How does one create a new architecture for New York City\’s public parks? There are over 1,700 parks located on over 27,000 acres of parkland…
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LUNIT
MISSIONAs a solution to current economic and social concerns existing in the housing industry, (i.e. affordability, sustainability and individual customization), the LUNIT Project has been…
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The Search for a Modern Monumentality: Master Plan and Design for the New Paris Courthouse
The subject of this studio will be the master plan and design of the new Paris Courthouse at the center of the city. In this…
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Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, Istanbul
Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, IstanbulThe studio will explore global scenarios for Istanbul and offer a concrete intervention to the specifities of a…
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Protecting and Developing the Landscapes of Don Quixote, Province of Castilla – La Mancha, Spain
Carl Steinitz, Christian Werthmann
Students for this studio have already been selected in an early lottery; this studio will not be part of the studio lottery on September 13th.Studio…
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Maximum Mumbai, Minimum Mumbai: Repositioning the Cotton Textile Mill Lands, Girangaon, Central Mumbai, India
\”There will soon be more people living in the city of Bombay (Mumbai) than on the continent of Australia. URBS PRIMA IN INDUS reads the…
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Questioning The Answers: Civic Space and Urban Regeneration
New civic landscapes are vital components of the social, cultural and economic regeneration of cities. These urban spaces are intended to be memorable outdoor social…
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Tokyo’s ‘New Order’ from a Local Perspective: Redevelopment of the Chuo-ku Waterfront
In the aftermath of the bursting of the \”bubble economy,\” which beset Tokyo and much of Japan during the past 15 years, the city is…
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Reconnecting City & River: Vienna, Austria & the Danube
One imagines the City of Vienna along its Danube as readily as London along its Thames or Paris along its Seine. But while the Thames…
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Harlem 125 | Shifting Culture, Shifting Economy, Shifting Urbanity
\”The struggle for power, ownership and authenticity will continue with the players shifting and changing, as new interests find their way uptown and old interests…
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Transformative Urbanism in a Southern California Suburban Context
Traditionally a location for ranching and farming, for the past50 years Orange County, California has been home to innovations in recreation, sports, master-planned communities and,…
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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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The Search for a Modern Monumentality: Master Plan and Design for the New Paris Courthouse
The subject of this studio will be the master plan and design of the new Paris Courthouse at the center of the city. In this…
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BOMBAY STUDIO: Urban Adjustments Negotiating the Kinetic and Static City
Location: The city of Bombay (now Mumbai) with over 12 million residents. India\’s financial center, with perhaps the world\’s most prolific film industry. 5 million…
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Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, Istanbul
The studio will explore global scenarios for Istanbul and offer a concrete intervention to the specificities of a site in a redefined context.The site of…
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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
A student who selects this independent thesis for the degree Master in Design Studies pursues independent research of relevance to the selected course of study…