Courses
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New York New York
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
There is a famed anecdotal evidence that designing a tower is easier than designing a chair. The boastful comparison was rather meant to aggrandize architects’…
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Baizo House – Perception Description Representation
On October 8, 1980, New York band Talking Heads released Remain in Light, their fourth album. The album's final track, "The Overload", was written in…
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Percent for Art: A New Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
In the option studio, we design a new building for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw by re-using the structure of a large-scale shopping…
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Nexus of Ecology, Education, and Design – A new School of Design on an Island at Yangtze Estuary
This studio project touches upon two important areas relevant to our collective future— ecology and education. This is a future in which we must change…
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Parisian Knees
There is little doubt that density is reshaping our cities, at a furious pace and with vast implications for urban life. As far-reaching as these…
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Earth Curvature: Context as Material / How to Read Place
Students will craft their own architectural language, guided by personal ethics and an original vision towards a sustainable architecture that also strives to timelessly resonate…
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Forgotten Fort Kongestein
This studio will explore potential new attitudes toward historical preservation, transformation, and adaptive reuse. The location is Fort Kongestein on the Eastern Coast of Ghana,…
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Housing as a Sustainable Common
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, architects were the driving force of progress in developing housing typologies that would enable people to live more socially…
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From Within to Without [M1]
This studio will explore the notion of interiority in the public realm by reimagining an existing mid-sized commercial building. As e-commerce, shifting consumer habits, and…
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Second Opportunities in Architecture [M1]
Iñaki Abalos, Renata Sentkiewicz
In its historical context, architecture has demonstrated an extensive capacity for the adaptation of typologies or forms to different sites, programs, and circumstances. In opposition…
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Do-It-Anyway: Place, Tectonics, and Time [M1]
In this studio, students will design and fabricate a sleeping space at one-to-one scale in the period of seven weeks. Why? We are living…
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Transforming the Urban Villa with Private Garden into a Contemporary Typology [M1]
The studio will deal with the strategies for the transformation of a coveted but obsolete architectural type, the urban villa in the park, keeping its…
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Revisiting Utopia: Bio-Based Megastructures in the Texas Desert [M2]
Regine Leibinger, Stefan Sauter, Karen Stein
The social and political tumult of the 1960s prompted a resurgence of utopian architecture. Rising fuel prices, a growing dependence on technology and, in particular,…
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Exploring Collective Bonds: Creating Spaces of Solidarity [M2]
In what way can design serve as a conduit, spanning the gap between heterogeneous groups and binding them through their shared collective endeavors? How do…
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Necessary Architecture [M2]
Our cities are filled with buildings–why more? With our discipline about to split into activists and professionals, we need to find purpose for architecture. We…
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Monumental Affairs [M2]
As architecture and urbanism continues to grapple with exposure from atypical authors the need for constructive examination becomes more pressing. Global terror and dissent typically…