Courses
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Dualisms: A House, A Palace
The majority of our programs can be synthesized, whether public or private, in approximately 9 (±2) different types of rooms distinguished in terms of scale,…
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The Architectural Double in the Museum City
The studio will examine the notions of the Museum City and the Architectural Double through the design of a new free-standing building for the Museum…
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Alimentary Design: The Final Course
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
This year, the Alimentary Design studio will address the more tacit and palpable relationship that we have to food by working closely with leading experts…
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Material Performance: Fibrous Tectonics & Architectural Morphology
A new understanding of the material in architecture is beginning to arise. No longer are we bound to conceive of the digital realm as separated…
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Meteorological Architecture
The building industry is one of the main culprits in global warming because the burning of fossil fuels to heat or cool dwellings is…
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The Function of Education: The 21st Century School
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
The studio will explore the function of education in the context of an academy in East Palo Alto, located in the nexus of the high…
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Imprecise Tropics
The tropic is precise in its definition only when referred to it as latitude. It is imprecise in its architecture, in its spatial condition and…
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Architecture Without Content 15: Neon Palladian
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
In the last few incarnations of Architecture without content, two defining tracks emerged. On the one hand, we investigated the roots of an architecture…
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Iceberg Alley
Every year about 40,000 medium- to large-sized icebergs calve from the edges of Greenland glaciers. After slipping into the ocean, the bergs float in frosty…
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Resonance: A New Community Performance/Meeting Place for Princeton
The emphasis of this Options Studio is on the development of an architectural position and using that position as a lens through which to analyze…
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Lisbon Story – Architecture Between Atmosphere and Tectonics
The Option Studio will develop a project for Lisbon. In the heart of medieval city, in a plot of land in the historical center,…
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“The English and the Americans expect everyone to be well-dressed” or A Building for a Fashion House
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
“The English and the Americans expect everyone to be well-dressed.” Or A Building for a Fashion Label Something fantastic about architecture is…
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Making Omishima the Best Island to Live On In Japan: Toyko Study Abroad Studio Option
Omishima, in Imabari City, is an island with a population of about 6,400 located in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea. Thirteen hamlets are…
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Lagoa das Furnas: A Dynamic Approach to a Landscape Project
Joao Nunes, Joao Gomes da Silva
The Vulcan Lagoon (Açores, Portugal)- a dynamic approach to landscape project applied to the São Miguel Island, singling out the basins of the Furnas Lagoon…
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The Naked Eye Medusae & other stories
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘Seen floating in the water, (Cyana artica) exhibits a large circular disk, of a substance not unlike jelly, thick in the centre, and suddenly thinning…
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Open Space – East New York – Brooklyn
This studio focuses on the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, which is historically one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. East New…
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Metroport on the Rhine: Strasbourg-Kehl
The site of this studio, at the border between France and Germany, is an industrial port between Strasbourg and Kehl, on the river Rhine, a…
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SEXY BEAST: MKAD
HISTORY Throughout history, Moscow pursued a concentric growth strategy. The Kremlin has always been at the core of these concentric rings. New concentric…
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Canceled: When the Future Looked Bright We Didn’t Wear Shades
In their golden years, the young Arab nations gave birth to aspiring modern urban projects. In a part of the world where the notion of…
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The MLK Way: Building on Black America’s Main Street
The “MLK Atlas” maps all the streets named after Dr. King in the continental U.S. Martin Luther King, Jr. is one of America’s most revered…
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Urban Blackholes: Development and Heritage in the Lima Metropolis
In cities with fast urban growth, heritage and development have often created friction zones where economic logics collide with preservation policies. This option studio will…