Courses
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An American Model
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
In the three previous studios, our aim was to investigate simple (drawing) tools of architecture – plan, section and perspective – in order to obliquely…
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THE AMERICAN HOME: Revisiting ‘Rural & Urban House Types’
Christoph Gantenbein, Emanuel Christ
“We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of…
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Architecture at a Crossroads
In the early 20th century, Manhattan represented the culminating and most extraordinary form of interdependence between architecture and urban morphology. Its unprecedented density, confined to…
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Complete Houses, Designing Non-Fragmented Landscapes of Beds
In this Studio, we will take further the concept of “Complete Streets” (safe, accessible to all, multi-program, sustainable, and context conscious), to reimagine the relationship…
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The Paradox of Hunger – Rural Mississippi
Mississippi has some of the richest soil in the country, with rivers such as the Mississippi, Pearl, Pascagoula, and many more flowing and supporting the…
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Proximities / Room for a House
“Making comparisons is the only good method in a world in which things take on consistency in relation to others. A comparison may be implicit…
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Forever Young: How design must anticipate human longevity
Recent advances in healthcare have led to prospects of dramatic increase in life span, only a few medical breakthroughs away. This has resulted in a…
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Cabin on a Hill [M1]
Like Henry David Thoreau, we will build a cabin in the woods (except on a hillside) near something (a pond, for example) that allows one…
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What’s a Difference?: Two Billboards for the Sunset Strip [M1]
Architecture’s role in the city is, at least in part, to form civic arrangements that suggest the possible parameters of political life. Traditionally this has…
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Looseness: Indeterminate Architectures for Broadway Junction [M1]
In the late 1950’s and 1960’s, architects embraced uncertainty and indeterminacy, arguing for greater individual agency and freedom, open-endedness, impermanence, growth, and change. Speculative projects imagined new worlds where…
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REVISITING MIES: An extension to Haus Lemke in Berlin [M1]
Haus Lemke, built in 1932 by Mies van der Rohe, sits at the Obersee lake in the Northeast of Berlin. The house was completed before…
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After the Party 2.0 – The Vertical Fairground [M2]
Simon Hartmann, Tilo Herlach, Simon Frommenwiler
In this studio, students will reimagine the center of the fairground Messe Basel and its pinnacle event Art Basel. Students will elaborate on speculative projects…
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The Disenchanted City [M2]
Angelo Lunati, Giancarlo Floridi
The studio will be a collective investigation of the subtle and intriguing relationship that exists between buildings, their form and their character, and the city…
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The Order of Play: The Playground [M2]
We are going to design a playground in a small plot in Rionegro, Colombia, located 2.300 meters above sea level. The studio aims to locate…
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HOME AS PRODUCT: Imagining the Next Generation of Industrialized Houses [M2]
A home is both a physical and a spiritual construct. It is part of our human nature to search for a home that will provide…
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Sustainable Commons: The Function of Housing and Urban Mining (Arles, France Studio Abroad)
In many cities around the world, housing has become unaffordable and designed in ways that are increasingly disconnected from the way people live. The impact…
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Canary in the Mine: A Design Foray into the Rural Habitats of Guinea-Bissau
What?Guinea-Bissau is one of the most vulnerable countries to climate change in West Africa due to the low-lying/flat topographical conditions, low nutrient soils, and…
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What Is a Lake? Post industrial Landscapes in Texcoco
Just a few kilometers north from Mexico City’s historic colonial center lies the arid desiccated lakebed of former Lago Texcoco. Historically, Texcoco has acted as…
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Towards Territorial Transition – Decarb Luxe
Why (the relevance):The studio “Territorial Transition” invites students with diverse disciplinary backgrounds (landscape, urbanism, architecture) to design transition on a territorial scale that faces…
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The Immeasurable Enclosure
This option studio offers immeasurability as the aesthetic and spatial expression of the public realm and asks students to imagine immeasurable single-space enclosures as forums…
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Aqua Incognita II: Reimagining Liquidity in the Mexican Altiplano
Aqua Incognita II engages students in research by design, furthering the GSD focus on Mexico’s urbanization challenges, by advancing nature-positive[1] reparative actions in the water-scarce…
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Trauma-Informed Design at Parrott Creek
Parrott Creek Child & Family Services – an 80-acre creekside facility in Portland, Oregon – support's some of Portland's most vulnerable community members: children and…
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Transient Ecologies: The Landscape of Massive Temporary Dwelling
It is commonplace to think of our time as one of constant mobility, a concept that has been attached to geopolitical, cultural, and social definitions,…
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Dreamscapes of Aurora: Geothermal Landscapes of Energy and Rejuvenation
“The people’s history of bathing is one of shared space. Histories and practices of the bath belong to histories and practices of the commons. Bathing…
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The Future of Housing in Los Angeles
Like most cities in the US today, Los Angeles doesn’t build enough housing to keep up with demand, a fact that has contributed to what…
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Desert Futures. Scenarios for a World of Extremes
Desert Futures is a multidisciplinary studio at the intersection of research, spatial design, and activism. It aims to spatialize and make visible the tensions between…
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Void infrastructures and lived responses
The site for this studio is two breathtakingly beautiful golf courses in Cape Town. We will build a city over them. Why? Currently, social justice…
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Engaging Energy Productions and Tourism Landscapes Towards a Circular Ecosystem in Iceland
Tourism in Iceland has grown at an unprecedent rate in recent decades. With numbers of visitors rising from 500 thousand in 2008 to over 2-milions…
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LATIN AMERICA IN TRANSITION: Ecological Design for Settlements & Climate Migration in Argentina
We face a vulnerable future due to the accelerated intensity of natural and humanitarian disasters. The resultant scale of unprecedented migration has been coupled with…
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Legacy Lands | Protopian Futures Reconciliation, Reclamation, and Reconstruction in Indianapolis
Practices of extraction, exclusion, discrimination, and devaluation are common to most historically Black American neighborhoods in the United States. While all suffered from periods of…