Courses
-
Kyoto Studio
Kyoto Studio proposes research at two different scales. The first is at the scale of object-creation. The second is observing how these micro-economies of traditional…
-
Transforming Melnea Cass Boulevard: Architecture, Transport and Regeneration in Central Boston
People have growing awareness about how they want to organise the environments in which they live, work and trade. Users and owners of houses and…
-
Fun Palace II
Cedric Price spent most of his career designing, promoting and building his most famous work known as The Fun Palace. Even though the project was…
-
Re-use, Re-public, Re-presentation
Within the New Normal – defined as an era of deglobalisation, austerity and sobriety, this studio examines how architecture can be instrumental in defining a…
-
Pursuing Figuration: Questions of Process, Structure, Scale and Enclosure
In a story, the narrative is captured in the telling; it is the selective details and descriptive moments that evoke a tone or mood. The…
-
The Ornamental Space
“There are three kinds of space that must be regarded as primary: functional, ornamental, and symbolic. The basic architectural formal values do not extend beyond…
-
Unfinished Work
Last studio, students addressed the question of knowledge space, and how such spaces facilitate the generation and dissemination of information. The interest of the studio…
-
Shapeshifter
Zoe Prillinger, Luke Ogrydziak
Contemporary architecture is in the middle of an extended shift from drawing to computation as the foundation of design practice. As such, issues of automatism…
-
Reconsidering Architecture: Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option
In spite of 100 years of globalization, the range of architectural typologies and the common understanding of the elements of the discipline may have diminished.
-
The Catalytic Landscape: Body, Culture, and the Visual Environment
Martha Schwartz, Andrea Hansen, Andrew Zientek
CATALYST, or its original Greek word CATALYSIS contains an ambiguity essential to the position of this studio. In chemistry, the word catalyst alludes to an…
-
A Parallel Walden: A Landscape of Civil Disobedience
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“… Air, water, wood: all are enhanced to produce hyperecology, a parallel Walden, a new rainforest. Landscape has become Junkspace, foliage as spoilage: trees are…
-
London: From the Olympics to the Thames
Vogt Studio London will take as its site a strip of land, approximately .8 by 2.4 kilometers, located in the Lower Lea Valley. The Lea…
-
Energy Landscapes 3.0
Philipp Oswalt, Theodor Deutinger
The civilization of mankind can be described on the basis of the development of energy systems. With the shift from hunters and gatherers to settlers,…
-
Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Abstract Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to…
-
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures – its dominant types. Any…
-
The Good Old Days: Design for the Age-Friendly Environment
Thanks to longer lifespans, lower fertility rates, and the aging of the baby boomer population, the United States is getting older. Already, there are more…
-
Networked Urbanism
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
The boundary between public and private is shifting. The one between personal and professional is becoming increasingly blurred. This rapid evolution has led us to…
-
Urban Development and Housing for Low Income Groups in the Rapidly Growing City of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
The first meeting for this studio will take place on Tuesday, September 4th. With over one million inhabitants, Ouagadougou is the largest…
-
The Jaffa Road Studio, Jerusalem
The studio will focus on a key site—or two or three—along a historic street that terminates at one of the gates to the walled city…
-
Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to use design as…
-
Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures—its dominant types. Any attempt to…