Courses
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RioStudio
The Graduate School of Design vs. Business School Studio aims to combine the creative experimentation of the designers with the rigorous number crunching of the…
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Global Redesign Project 2. Resonance: Virtual and Real: Design of a Performing Arts Center
GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE ART CENTER SYLLABUS GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF…
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Dense + Green
In the context of today\’s debates on sustainable approaches for high density cities, contemporary architectural practice increasingly seeks new possibilities for integrating green spaces in…
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Rising Mass 2
Halfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of pure form-making, this studio celebrate architecture\’s ongoing critical return to form. Our…
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FORMAGRAPHICS
For centuries used as a fundamental form of geometric rationality, and perhaps now used as a reaction to the various types of topological / fluid…
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Performative Wood: Integral Design Computation and Materialization
Today, thanks in part to the new theories of self-organization that have revealed the potential complexity of behaviour of even the humbler forms of matter-energy,…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Dense Structure- Stressed Structures: Institute for Innovation in Infrastructure, Madrid, Spain
The city of Madrid is undergoing today one of its most important urban and infrastructural challenges; the burying of the M-30 ring highway has recovered…
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Poseidon’s Temple: Vessels, Membranes, and Urban Archipelagos
This studio will investigate a Mid-American city as it transitions from post-industrial decline, towards a new, water-based urbanism. Can its architecture and remnant infrastructure be…
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Architecture, In Extremes: A Spa in Wadi Rum, Jordan
The project is a Spa Resort located in Wadi Rum, which is one of the most important natural history sites in Jordan. Wadi Rum is…
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Roman Water_Gate: A New Entrance for the Metropolitan Area of Rome
The city of Rome has planned the development of a new commercial port in the vicinity of Fiumicino, close to the International airport Leonardo da…
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Boston Botony Bay
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
The Boston Botany Bay studio will re-define the concept of the botanical garden for the 21st century. The archipelago of islands in the Boston Harbor…
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Context Informs Form
Context Informs Form is a site based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture. Students will be redesigning…
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Rethinking Real and Virtual Infrastructures in the 21st Century: Innovative Boulevards in Lisbon
FRAMEWORK.The modernization of Lisbon traditional city to a large extent involved the creation of linear spaces-avenues-associated with new economic and social activities, introducing different uses:…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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Boston’s Innovation District
Matthew Kiefer, Dennis Pieprz, Janne Corneil
Can we imagine a new urban paradigm where innovative planning strategies and urban design ideas foster new ways of living, working, and interacting in the…
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Urban Social Design
Jose Luis Vallejo, Belinda Tato
CitiesThe city is a complex organism composed of a multitude of interwoven layers, links and interactions between all the elements that it comprises. The increased…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Looking to the Future: Design, Sustainability, and Growth in Northern Greece
Spiro Pollalis, Martha Schwartz
Following a recent administrative reorganization, Edessa, a small historic town with natural beauties in northern Greece, has become the capital of a larger area. The…