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…