Courses
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Kyoto Studio II: Seasons and Architecture
This studio will explore architecture as a responsive entity to seasons in climate, economy, politics and socio-cultural landscape. Through the analysis of building paradigms and…
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Unfinished Work III
This third installation of ‘Unfinished Work’ will broaden the research and design interests developed in the last two studio sessions. In the first studio,…
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workplan
workspheres The office is no more. We work anywhere, anytime. We don’t have professions any longer. We don’t even think we work, it’s just…
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Alimentary Design
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
Alimentary is defined as of or relating nourishment or nutrition; furnishing sustenance or maintenance. Food is a fundamental requirement of human life and a universal…
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Parametric Semiology – High Performance Architecture for Apple, Google and Facebook
Patrik Schumacher, Marc Fornes
Marc Fornes will also be involved in this studio. All problems of society are problems of communication. Especially within post-Fordist network society, total social productivity…
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Material Performance – Fibrous Tectonics
Advances in the conception of materiality and the technologies of materialization have always been a catalyst for design innovation in architecture. Today, technological advancements across…
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La Strada Novissima
CONTINUOUS CITY VS. DISCONTINUOUS CITY The Continuous City, characterized by clearly delineated urban spaces of streets, squares, and boulevards, was a dominant concept of…
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Green Card Conversations
Projects are born from conversation. In Latin, the verb ‘converse’, cumversare, has a double root: cum, with, and versare, spin. Spin with or spin together.
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Theatre and the City
The Abbey has been Ireland’s National Theatre since its foundation by WB Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904. Originally associated with poets and writers,…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Elements of Architecture
Instructors: Rem Koolhaas / Stephan Trüby / AMO Ambition: Following two semesters of work by GSD students on architectural elements – the door, the…
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A New [Landscape] Infrastructure for Los Angeles
Topics to be covered ‘Essayons!’ meaning ‘Let us try,’ (1) was the motto first used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in…
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Parallel Motion: Walden Pond, Concord / Central Park, New York
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“New York is my Walden. I mean, you don\’t have to be in the middle of a forest, a countryside to be in nature”. Jonas…
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After La Villette
Why after? After, because the site is located in Paris, right behind the Park de la Villette. After, because we can no longer design…
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California Limnolarium (experiments in projective processes)
A limnolarium, for the purposes of this studio, is a place associated with the study, presentation and experience of inland water ecosystems. It is a…
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Haters Make Me Famous: The Newark Riverfront and the Post-Great Migration City
Following forty years of official urban decline narratives, the Festival Marketplace entered US cities in the 1970s as a redemptive force of planning and design.
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Networked Urbanism: Urban Waste – Urban Design
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
Waste is the result of bad design Networked Urbanism: Urban Waste – Urban Design Waste is the result of bad design Cities cover…
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Planning and Development on the East Boston Waterfront
Alex Krieger, Matthew Kiefer, Larry Curtis
This studio will explore the use of both private investment and public action to solve an important planning/urban design problem: how to fulfill long-standing community…
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Macau: Cross-border Cities
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Territorialism 2
Paola Vigano, Chiara Cavalieri
Key issues: contemporary territories, ecological rationality, life-cycles, embodied energy, inclusion Design operations: conceptualization and scenarios construction Place: Boston Metropolitan Region/Greater Boston I the…
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Meydan: Designing the Surfaces of Public Space around Beyazit Square, Istanbul
Summary: The studio explores the architectural means by which a public space could be configured to support a variety of specific urban functions while encouraging…