Courses
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Post-Shaker
Historic preservation breaks down into two categories. The first are projects that involve complete reconstruction and restoration with the goal to simulate the original historical…
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Habitat Kashgar
Habitat is arguably the most primitive and, at the same time, most futuristic subject for architecture. The word “habitat” provokes at once multiple architectural imaginations:…
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Type vs. Difference: The Function of a 21st-century Residential Block
The studio is concerned with the politics of architecture and its agency in everyday life. This semester, we will address the subject of housing in…
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Adapting Miami – Housing on the Transect
Miami is on the front lines of climate change. Its famous beaches and waterfront condominiums are projected to suffer significantly with sea level rise in…
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An American Section
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
This is the second studio of American Architecture. Our aim is to investigate the simple (drawing) tools of architecture: plans, sections, details, and perspectives. These…
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Laboratory School, Stacking, Pragmatism, …
This architecture studio will be composed of three distinct and interrelated parts in working toward a design project. 1. A Laboratory SchoolThis studio will…
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Groundless
Disciplinary interests in architecture are both in flux and viewed by many as disengaged from the world’s pressing needs. This studio posits that this flux…
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Cross Rhythm (New House in New Orleans)
We can find many beautiful residential typologies in New Orleans, like the creole townhouse, shotgun house, and double-gallery house, to name a few. As each…
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Reflective Nostalgia: Alternative Futures for Shanghai’s Shikumen Heritage
Nostalgia tends to be taken dismissively or negatively in both architecture and general culture, as Charles Maier aptly states: “Nostalgia is to longing as kitsch…
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A Typology of Knowledges
This studio will reconsider the types and spaces of institutions that are dedicated to the classification and transmission of knowledge—schools of architecture, libraries, and museums—and…
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Domestic Orbits
Brief: In December 2018, the Mexican Supreme Court recognized the right of domestic workers to be affiliated to social security putting an end to…
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Adrift and Indeterminate: Designing for Perpetual Migration on Virginia’s Eastern Shore
Virginia’s Eastern Shore, which together with its northern Maryland counterpart forms and protects the massive Chesapeake Bay estuary, is confronting sea level rise at a…
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Geographical Reenchantment: Swiss Landscape Interventions between Atmosphere, Function + Experience
In tiny Switzerland, landscape is regarded as a resource that serves lobbies from agriculture and speculation, to infrastructure, ecology, tourism, and recreation, each with a…
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Manifestos for Building the Utopia
Loreta Castro, Gabriela Carrillo
The continuous ground movements that happen in Mexico City, specifically those that have occurred during the last 40 years, demonstrate the territory’s frailty due to…
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Social Operative Infrastructure: Sustainable Water Models in Chile
Eugenio Simonetti, Tomas Folch
According to the World Bank, countries need to invest 4.5 percent of their GDP in infrastructure to reach the Sustainable Development Goals…
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The Immeasurable Enclosure
This option studio explores the ability of a single enclosed space to be the spatial expression of that which is immeasurable. The garden and the…
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FALLOWSCAPES, Territorial Reconfiguration Strategies for Arles, France
Anita Berrizbeitia, Marc Armengaud, Matthias Armengaud
On a promontory on the left bank of the lower Rhone River, just before it reaches the Mediterranean Sea, the city of Arles presides over…
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Housing & Infrastructure in Yucatán: Beyond the Mayan Train
The Yucatán Peninsula in southeastern Mexico has been described as “one big flat slab of limestone gently slanting into the sea.” It is a place…
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Affordability Now!
The United States is in the midst of an affordable housing crisis. Over the last two decades, rents have risen far faster than renters’ incomes, resulting in…
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Novi Sad ? The Agency of the Urban Ensemble: Community ? Action ? City
The main objective in this studio is to critically explore Novi Sad, Serbia, the European Capital of Culture 2021. In Novi Sad, we will research…
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Feeding Boston
The development of postindustrial food supply systems parallels the explosion of the modern city. This studio will deal with an ordinary matter whose future impacts…