Courses
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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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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 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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TB Clinics and Research Laboratories in Ethiopia
Rose Option Studio, Fall 2009TB Clinics and Research Laboratories in EthiopiaPROJECTThe Studio Project will be in two parts: a central TB Clinic and Research Laboratory…
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Inventing Architecture
I n G e n e r a lOur goal is to work with an idea. What is a project about? What is the idea…
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Mies Immersion
Mies ImmersionThe Performance ShedMies\’s work had an essence of formlessness, amorphousness, nothingness, perversion and anxiety behind a stealth shield of serenityRem KoolhaasI am, in fact,…
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Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in Bucharest
Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in BucharestThis research and design studio is the second in a series that focuses on parametric explorations of reticulation: division,…
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Detournement
D\’tournement1. PresentationThe colonization of the Chilean desert, located between the 20th and 30th southern parallels, is historically connected with mining, shepherding communities and exchange dynamics…
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The Urban Theater
The Urban Theater Gordon Kipping with Maria Stefanidis Urban public space is idealized in the public square. Typically bounded by buildings that possess some civic…
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The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul
Istanbul Re-Oriented: Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan…
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Mediums
Are you tired of ____?If you answered yes to this question, keep reading.It could be said that avant-garde production works according to this formula: Medium…
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The Greek City of Edessa: Search for a Sustainable Future
Martha Schwartz, Spiro Pollalis
Tuesdays and WednesdaysEdessa, a small historic town in northern Greece, faces an uncertain future. Its potential to regenerate diminishes as they lose their young population…
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Designing the Ecology of Democracy: Speculations on National Identity, Free Speech, the American Elm, and the Nation’s Front Yard
Gary R. Hilderbrand, Gareth Doherty
GSD 1402, Hilderbrand, Fall 2009DESIGNING THE ECOLOGY OF DEMOCRACY: SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL IDENTITY, FREE SPEECH, THE AMERICAN ELM, AND THE NATION???S FRONT YARD\”The Mall, far…
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Boston Botany Bay: The Naked Garden as Spectacle of Plant Psycho-Geography
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”Gardeners are not only botanists, but also painters and philosophers\”William Chambers: A dissertation on oriental gardening (London, 1772)\”What seems to me the highest and the…
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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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Havana In Our Time: Developing Urban Design and Planning Strategies for Change
Havana, Cuba, once known as the Pearl of the Antilles, is facing unprecedented pressure for change from increasing tourism, foreign economic interests and the likelihood…
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The New Gate: Public Space, Infrastructure, and the Re-Orientation of Historic Istanbul
Istanbul Re-Oriented: Over the past four decades, the city of Istanbul has grown away from the congestion of its historic center towards its vast metropolitan…
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Newark: The Contested City, Part II – Healing Waters: Reclaiming the Urban Waterfront
The Contested City, Part II Healing Waters: Connecting the Passaic Riverfront to Newark NeighborhoodsToni L. Griffin Adjunct Associate Professor Director of Planning & Community Development,…
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Urban Renewal Reconsidered: Envisioning a Sustainable Future for Boston’s Core
While Boston is known around the world for preserving and celebrating large parts of its historic fabric, the downtown core underwent major acts of Urban…
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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
Spiro Pollalis, Martin Bechthold, Andreas Georgoulias, Christoph Reinhart
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…