Courses
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Subjects, Forms and Performances of the Contemporary Hybrid
The OPENstudio Fall Term 2016 explores new ways of facing collective dwelling – in principle producing innovative modalities of public housing – to produce new…
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Lisbon Story – Architecture between Atmosphere and Tectonics
The Option Studio will develop a project for Lisbon. For over 500 years Portugal was recognized for discoveries due to their innovations in sailing techniques…
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The Art Space
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
This semester’s studio will design a space for art by means of a reflection on the relation between architecture and art. Architecture doesn’t exist without…
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The Unfolding Civic Surface: Auditoria as Terraform
This studio imagines a civic building as terraform, between object and landscape, a shaped container that owes as much to its terroir as to its…
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Fukuoka Project: Strategies for Urban Extroverts
The studio will develop a contemporary vision for a new urban center following the relocation of the University of Kyushu. Plans for the consolidation and…
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On Health, or: The Ecology of Living
Ben van Berkel, Christian Veddeler
Contemporary definitions of Health are complex and far-reaching. Health influences, informs and conditions an increasingly broad range of contemporary life. It has evolved as an…
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Communes (another portrait of America)
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
“Stomp the devil!” Sisters and Brothers began whirling in place. the group cried“Shake! Shake! Shake ! Christ is with you! ” (Dan Graham on…
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The Function of Architecture in the 21st Century University
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused on the role of architecture in the of 21st century learning environment. This fall…
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The Archipelago in the Archipelago. Medellin: A Tropical City
It’s been almost 40 years (1977) since Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas wrote: The city in the City, Berlin: a green archipelago. Its waves…
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Hutong Metabolism, Beijing
Hutongs in Beijing, the traditional courtyard-and-alley system of urban dwelling that is the most essential part of the city, have recently been captured at…
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BRICK: THICK/THIN
Brick: Thick/Thin aims to challenge perceived notions of brick and its use in architecture and suggest viable proof-of-concept alternatives that raise questions about surface,…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Studio: Transforming Omishima into a Beautiful Japanese Garden
Omishima is an island in Seto Inland Sea with the population of 6,000 people. Thirteen hamlets are scattered along the coast and the island is…
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The Possibility of an Island
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘There exists in the midst of timethe possibility of an island’– Michel Houellebecq The Possibility of an Island forms the first installment of…
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Inherent Vice
The studio will focus on the art of transforming and creating new landscapes within an urban site conditioned by existing infrastructure and complex contextual circumstances.
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Le Havre : Transformation of the Reconstructed City
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Le Havre is a large European port located in Normandy at the mouth of the Seine. The city of Le Havre was constructed at the…
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Broadway Shuffle at Madison Square: The Surface is Alive!
Our city streets have become contested space. If you want proof, look no farther than urban mobility guru Jeanette Sadik-Kahn’s widely anticipated new book, Street…
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Re-Tooling Metropolis: Provisional Landscapes, Emergent Urbanism in Houston’s Eastern Bayous
Re-tooling will cultivate conversations on the nature of contemporary urbanism, on the primacy of landscape in transforming the city, and on the opportunities and challenges…
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Affirmatively Further: Fair Housing After Ferguson
When asked to name the most surprising finding of the Ferguson Commission, which was tasked with examining the underlying social and economic conditions of the…
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Urban Strategies for the Retiro Area, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The studio will test the relevance of urbanism, landscape and urban design approaches to a particular area in Buenos Aires City. Specifically, the studio will…
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INTERFACE: Constructing the Edge for Malaysia Vision Valley
Malaysia Vision Valley (MVV) is a new economic growth area announced by the Malaysian Government in 2015. Comprising of 108,000 hectares of land on the…