Courses
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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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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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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 Geometry of Emotion
Dominique Jakob, Brendan MacFarlane
Given where we are at this moment in history with the building type of a concert hall, are there new ways in which we can…
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Kanchogai Street
Ryue Nishizawa, Florian Idenburg
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.Kancyogai Street, Towada-shi, AomoriThemeThe studio will focus on a town in the south east…
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Encapsulated Vision: Relocating the Barnes Foundation Collection
With the design of a new building for the Barnes Foundation, this studio will explore the relations between the virtual and actual architectures of collecting…
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El Rejoneo Bull Fighting On Horseback
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.El Rejoneo (The bull fight): Taking a Stance on Local CulturesShould local traditions maintain…
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Tokyo’s Book City
The district of Jimbo-cho in downtown Tokyo has been the center of book culture from the Edo period when the first government school, later to…
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Visiting History: Bauhaus in America
The Frank House in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is one of the most important examples of work by the Bauhaus figures Walter Gropius and Marcell Breuer in…
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Contested Waters: The Tajo River in Spain
Christian Werthmann, Carl Steinitz
SituationIt is now commonly heard, that \”water is the oil of the 21st century.\” Spain seems to exemplify this issue. For decades fierce debates have…
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Mumbai Margins: Rethinking the Island City
Niall Kirkwood, Nazneen Cooper
Pavements, slums, chawls, colonies, estates as landscapes of renewal\”…many of Bombay\’s (Mumbai) problems are the result not of poverty as such but of the reverse-…
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Half a Million Trees: Prototyping Sites and Systems for Sustainable Cities
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Kristin Frederickson
IntroductionThis studio addresses design and planning practices of sustainable urban forestry. The decline of our urban forest cover can be addressed as a series of…
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A Lo Que Vinimos: Revitalization of Central San Jose, Costa Rica
Paradoxically, perhaps, as the economic fortunes of Costa Rica have rebounded from the downturn and regional political crises of the late 1970s and 80s, the…
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The New Boston Waterfront: Channels & Edges
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design interest and capability. It is anticipated that the studio will call upon the following…
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Recovering New Orleans
Two years after Hurricane Katrina, recovery in many parts of New Orleans remains a pressing issue. The Recovering New Orleans studio will develop planning and…
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The Architecture of Geography: Istanbul, Mixed-Use Development, and the Panoramic Condition
The Architecture of GeographyIstanbul, Mixed-Use Development, and the Panoramic ConditionThe aim of the studio is to explore the urban and architectural potentials of mixed use…
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Tokyo’s Book City
The district of Jimbo-cho in downtown Tokyo has been the center of book culture from the Edo period when the first government school, later to…
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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
Daniel Schodek, Peter Rowe, Spiro Pollalis, K. Michael Hays, Martin Bechthold, Allen Sayegh, Eve Blau, Antoine Picon, Kostas Terzidis
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…