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…