Courses
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UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA: Living Post-Work
Today, at an unprecedented rate, new technologies and global networks (underground, in space, in the cloud) are transforming the ways in which we understand and…
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Dwelling / Garden / Being, Suzhou
“Poetically man dwells on this earth”, the phrase by Hölderlin inspired Heidegger to write an essay entitled “Building Dwelling Thinking”, in which he reveals how…
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The House: The Waken Desire
“An old house, a shadowy porch, tiles, a crumbling Arab decoration, a man sitting against the Wall, a deserted Street, a Mediterranean tree: this…
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On Health II: Amsterdam Health Kitchen
Ben van Berkel, Christian Veddeler
The widespread emphasis on healthy living and the demand for creating environments, cities and buildings accordingly has aligned with the ongoing integration of technology into…
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Natural Monument
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen
It would be deceiving to claim a return to nature since there has never been a real departure from it. Buildings complete nature as…
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An American Plan
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
This is the first of a series of studios focusing on American Architecture. The research will happen sideways. Not through analysis of local phenomena,…
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reCYCLO: Architectures of Waste
Human beings have traditionally built enclosures from close-to-hand materials: tents from animal hides in the desert, log cabins in forests, stone huts in rocky areas,…
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Architecture as a Tool to Improve Lives: Development of a Day Care Centre for Rohingya Children
For decades, construction in the context of international aid has predominantly followed a specific pattern: foreign organizations erect their structures, made of industrialized and…
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Soft Spaces
Simon Frommenwiler, Simon Hartmann, Tilo Herlach
Architectural design has to deal increasingly with given and inflexible concepts describing separation of functions, perimeters and areas of control. The three-year HHF Option Studio…
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New Formations for the Social Metropolis
This studio will explore housing architecture’s latent potential to transform the global project of urbanisation to one of productivity, inclusivity, hybridity and resilience. We…
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The Future Provincetown 1
Historical accretion vs total design and artisanal production vs technological innovation are two of the most productive dialectics to have accompanied modern architecture since…
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Multiple Miamis
This interdisciplinary studio will take on questions of how design can address issues of inequity, race, affordability, and resilience in the context of the contemporary…