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…