Courses
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Between Wilderness and Civilization: Monson, Maine
The town of Monson is the gateway to the Hundred-Mile Wilderness, the northernmost hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail which stretches from Springer Mountain in…
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Beauty Of Knowledge – American (ir)regularity
The studio Beauty Of Knowledge – American (ir)regularity is a follower to last year’s studio Places Of Knowledges, and previous year Form As Knowledge –…
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Architecture for Statehood
If Washington, DC were to be granted statehood, what would the introduction of its new governing institutions and agencies do to the city and the…
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De/constructing Cultural Tourism – Ke Zhan (Traveler’s Rest Stop) Case Study
The studio will take on the topic of cultural tourism in the context of China’s westward expansion related to its Belt and Road project, as…
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The Primitive Hut
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
Consisting of a roof and its supports, the Primitive Hut is the essence of architecture, and has always been an obsession and a fixed topos…
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Well-being: The function of a 21st century multi-story residential building
Over the past seventeen months, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to feelings of loneliness, anxiety, boredom, incarceration, and indolence for many living in cities around…
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Miami Remix
Elizabeth Whittaker, Corey Zehngebot
Miami Remix will expand on emerging housing typologies as part of a larger urban design agenda as we take on Miami’s most urgent crises: equitable…
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The Third Space [M1]
This studio will explore community development, cultural complexity and displacement, place, and identity through the programming and design of a Third Space which will engage…
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WINDOW WALL [M1]
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen
Architecture is not that simple. The moment you enclose a space with solid walls and a roof you need to open it (for access, light…
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Designing for the DNA of a Place [M2]
As a planet, we have over the past two years been in a collective state of reckoning. This has been true when it comes to…
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Specific Ambiguity: The Well-Tempered grid [M2]
The grid is an elusive system, for some architects and artists it is a distinctive code for framing, understanding and producing space, a model. For…
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‘AQUA INCOGNITA:’ Deciphering Liquid Territories in the Mexican Altiplano
Aligned with the GSD´s focus on Mexico´s urbanization challenges, and with a further commitment to advancing research by design at the GSD, Aqua Incognita aims to…
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The Immeasurable Enclosure
This option studio proposes using immeasurability as the aesthetic and spatial expression of the public realm and asks students to imagine immeasurable single-space enclosures as…
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ENTO: Fostering Insect/Human Relationships through Design
This studio will focus on designing for insects, one of the most ubiquitous and diverse groups of animals on the planet. At first glance, this…
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Harnessing the Future
Thomas Oslund, Catherine Murray
Harnessing the Future: How the Internet’s Physical Digital Infrastructure Influences Landscape, Local Economies, and the Ecologies of Communities. Project Goal:Envision strategies to generate sustainable…
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Seeking Abundance: Designing Engagement and Experience for All
The landscape, the land itself, is where inequity has always, and continues to express itself. Access to health, wealth, safety and education are embedded in…
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Extending and mending Thamesmead: re-envisioning the town of tomorrow, today
It was a good place to be as a kid. There was so much nature and wide open space. In the spring there would be…
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Highways Revisited
The U.S. Interstate Highway System has been lauded as one of the greatest public works projects in human history. Encompassing nearly fifty thousand miles of…
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History, Boundaries and the Future – Conservation and Infill in Boston’s Chinatown
Boston is fortunate to have large, intact, precincts of fine scaled historic fabric whose character and conservation is carefully monitored through established regulatory processes. However,…
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Great Migration and Memorial Highway: Culture Heritage as Inspiration in New Rochelle
Long perceived as a bedroom community of New York City, New Rochelle is a place unique in colonial New York as being settled by a…
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Planning a Piece of a City, The Architectural Form of the Neighborhood
Contemporary cities generally grow in an amorphous and often mono functional way, generating peripheries that do not contribute to social life and identity. The latter…