Courses
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ONIONS
Can there be an architecture that provokes the innate generosity of the human spirit? We think the answer is yes, but only if it’s creator…
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Dual-Use: The function of a 21st century urban residential block
The studio is concerned with politics that is latent in architecture- which is carried out through making aesthetic decisions regarding everyday spaces- as it can…
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Spatial Infrastructures
This semester we will be addressing the idea of the productive city through the design of a single building: an urban machine. Since the…
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Form As Knowledge – What Can a School of Architecture Be?
The studio “Form As Knowledge – What Can Be A School Of Architecture?“ is a follower to last year’s studio, “Places Of Knowledges”, that started…
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Aemulatio
Aemulatio.The Renaissance period brings the idea of aemulatio, expressing the challenge to creatively imitate famous examples instead of inventing new themes. Imitation was the…
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An American Perspective [M1]
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
This is the third studio of American Architecture. After studios contemplating the plan and the section respectively, this time we will focus on the perspective.
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Can Parkitecture Heal? A Green New Deal Superstudio [M1]
This studio proposes to translate and spatialize the core goals of the Green New Deal into a new park architecture for Great Smoky Mountains National…
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House of Our Time [M1]
We live in a time in which previously-social activities such as teaching, learning, and working have been confined to the privacy of the home. This…
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After Property [M1]
“Is love a synonym for abolition?” Saidiya Hartman How can we disentangle architecture from property? How can we use this moment of global lockdown and…
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Spaces of Isolation – Bridges between home and health care [M1]
Modular units are an emerging and strategic development in triage within public health systems. The new reality brought about by the current pandemic exposed weak…
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Cancel Architecture [M2]
This studio will be about the architectural power and paradox of negation, symbolically and spatially. Iconoclasm, involving both the desecration of images or sculptures and…
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Movements [M2]
“Walking, in particular drifting, or strolling, is already – within the speed culture of our time – a kind of resistance.” – Francis Alÿs MOVEMENTS…
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AFTER THE PARTY – A New Open Fair [M2]
Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler, Tilo Herlach
How can the empty spaces left over by a globally receding exhibition industry be converted and opened to the surrounding city without blocking new models…
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A House for Almost Everything [M2]
The studio will focus on fundamental elements that comprise a building as a premise for making architecture. We will examine the ecology of a building,…
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GROUNDSCRAPERS [M2]
Nowadays, demands for other ways of social spatial organizations are needed, – for sanitary and social reasons – a new type is required to fill…
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Washington Common – Martin Luther King, Jr., Upended [M1]
While the 1902 Senate Park Commission set forth a vision for the National Mall and the Monumental Core that is known to the world, its…
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Washington Common, An Unmonumental Core for Our Capital City [M2]
Congress shall make no law…prohibiting…the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.—First Constitutional Amendment,…
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The Right to the Sewage
Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen
The Mezquital Valley is the world’s longest running experiment with wastewater agriculture, having received all of Mexico City’s untreated sewage continuously since 1901. What started…
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Seeking Abundance – Designing Engagement and Experience for All
The landscape, is where inequity has always, and continues to express itself. Access to health, wealth, safety and education are embedded in the timeless wheeling and…
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In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment [M1]
In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment: landscape interventions between atmosphere, function + experience Both a Swiss and global phenomena, landscapes today are increasingly regarded as a…
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In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment continued [M2]
In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment continued: a landscape intervention of function, atmosphere and identity Both a Swiss and global phenomena, landscapes today are increasingly regarded…
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This Land Is Your Land [M1]
In the US, there are over 300 federal Indian reservations, covering over 50 million acres of land in 36 states. However, a majority of Native…
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As of Right: First Nations Reclaim the City [M2]
Ninety-five percent of British Columbia is “unceded,” meaning it was never given up by indigenous communities in treaties. As a result, today, many First Nations…
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Extreme Urbanism (7), Imagining an Urban Future for Ishkashim, Afghanistan
Rahul Mehrotra, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Bordering Tajikistan and within the province of Badakhshan, one of the most natural disasterprone area in Afghanistan, lies Ishkashem. The name, Ishkashim stands both for…
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The CANARY IN THE MINE, Wildfires and rural communities in the Mediterranean Hinterland
“Fire is a phenomenon that derives from its circumstances… It synthesizes its surroundings.”¹Stephen J. Pyne 1. WhyWildfires rage throughout the rural and peri-urban…