Courses
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Exploring Methodologies
During the sixties, methodology was a fundamental aspect of architectural education. Everything gravitated around method, which meant that architects were explicit about how their buildings…
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Weatherize
weather…Beyond media-perfect weather catastrophes, this studio researches issues of weather in our everyday culture and its effect on architecture.…newsBy now, every year has its millenium…
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Funerary Complex
ScenarioA woman in her mid forties recently received a sizable inheritance which includes her family\’s funeral home business. Like many family owned and operated funeral…
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Symmetrical Performance
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
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“My Way” – A Trip to Gee’s Bend
America Irby, \”Ma Willie\” Abrams, Indiana Bendolph, Della Mae Bridges, Seebell Kennedy, Pearlie Pettway Hall, Jeesie T. \”Bootnie\” Pettway, Sue Willie Seltzer, Fannie T. Westbrook,…
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Field Trip
FIELD TRIP\”Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching…
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Experiments with Blank Typologies: London Olympics, Lea Valley
Contemporary building technologies and the need for totally controlled environments have generated a growth in size and number of typologies that require an essentially \”blank\”…
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Monocoques, Component Design
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.MONOCOQUES: INTRODUCTIONTechnology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and it finds most of its uses…
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Advancing the Strategostructure
Massive development projects increasingly involve complex program mixes and/or public-private ventures, where design by a single architect is arguably not advantageous or even possible. Furthermore,…
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Apres Ski: Eco Village Les Diablerets
In this studio, we will look at the other side of the “coin” of the rapid urbanization phenomena. As we discuss the need to strategize…
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Meuble – Immeuble: Furniture – Architecture
Introduction:The studio\’s task is to design and build an item of transformable furniture to suit an itinerant user and to fit into a variety of…
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New Central Library for Shantou University
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
Shantou University has ambitious plans to grow in quality (not in quantity) to become one of the foremost educational hubs in China.The tropical vegetation offers…
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Sculpture Park and Cultural Building, South East London
The WILKINSON EYRE studio will be setting a design brief for a Sculpture Park and Cultural Building on the site of the old Crystal Palace…
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UK/NL A Building in Amsterdam Harbour
UK/NLA building in Amsterdam harbourTony Fretton- www.tonyfretton.co.ukThe site for the project is a small island in the, an area of water between the railway line…
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Everybody loves Frank
Everybody Loves FrankMack ScoginIf the traditional role of the iconoclast is to attack cherished beliefs and ridicule venerated institutions, why is it in today\’s world…
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Pier 26
Studio IntentionThis studio will focus on the creation of \”public space\” by non-profit, mission-driven organizations as a means of advancing their societal role. Social institutions,…
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Sao Paulo, 4 Operations
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.Two current questions for architecture:1. lots of resources2. lack of meaningSao Paulo: 4 operationsSITEThe site is Sao…
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Puntacana, Dominican Republic: The Modern, The Vernacular, The Sustainable
Since its founding in the late 1960\’s by Ted Kheel, Frank Rainieri, Oscar de la Renta and Julio Iglesias, PUNTACANA Resort & Club, on the…
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The Function of Roofs: The Urban Mall
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
Please note: Farshid Moussavi will not be present at all course meetings. James Khamsi, Teaching Associate, will run the course when Professor Moussavi is not…
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The Function of Time: The Contemporary Art Museum
During the last two decades, a new type of art museum has arisen which promotes art without history, dedicated to contemporary issues. This has been…
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The Function of Time: The Contemporary Art Museum
Farshid Moussavi, Jonathan Scelsa
This is the second in a series of research based studios devoted to the spatial and temporal implications that contemporary art provokes for a museum…
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WHYCANTWEJUSTDANCE?? HUMANEORIGINSINNOCENTOBSESSIONSANDCHEAPSHOES
Why can’t we just dance? Humane Origins Innocent Obsessions And Cheap Shoes What is architecture’s role today in…
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“You Can’t Die in Disney World” A ZOO (as in chaos)
\” You Can\’t Die in Disney World \” A ZOO ( as in chaos ) A current visit to the Disciplinary Zoo of…
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Architecture for Politics? A New Swiss Embassy in Washington DC
Switzerland plans to establish a new embassy in Washington D.C. Essentially, the project continues the tradition of a diplomatic mission of a sovereign state within…
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Unanticipated Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas
Las Vegas isn\’t phony anything: it has its own resounding, relentless identity. And Vegas is arguably the most interesting American city of the moment, the…
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Architecture(s) of Geopolitical Transgression
Korea\’s Demilitarized Zone is the last major scar left from the Cold War conflicts between communism and capitalism that characterized much of the second half…
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Notes from the Underground: Boston Disconnect
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: SUBWAY SUPERSTATIONThe studio will be based on the premise that the Boston subway system is dysfunctional and inadequate, but also critical…
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Seoul Long Beach “investigation in materiality”
Project Title: Seoul Long Beach\”investigation in materiality\”Natural vs. Artificial materiality in the development of the Han River Edge Seoul, S. Korea\”I don\’t believe in one…
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Cultural Porosity
PorosityThe increasing autonomy and self-reference of architectural systems has led to the construction of a paradigm of control that defines the condition of the contemporary…
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The Language of Sustainability
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.The language of sustainabilityWe will continue our practical research within the new paradigm of sustainable architecture.
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Convergence: The Museum Artistically Reconsidered
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.Objective:This option studio will explore/ investigate the dialogue between physical and digital models in the…
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Your Space
Virtually all of what we do as humans takes place within the space of architecture. The design of space is the defining claim of the…
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White Napkins: A Collection of Short Theses on Radical Interiors
short th\’sis, n [AS. scort, scort, short; O.H.G. scurz, short, cut off; ON. skort, short piece of clothing. L thesis; Gr. thesis, a position, from…
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The Studio Studio
The architectural treatise and manifesto have disappeared. Today, we have architectural theory and criticism of architecture. But is it possible to call any contemporary building…
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Indebted Architecture
The project is to analyze and design buildings as if their forms correlate to the movement of thought. In order to do so, several existing…
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Portmanian Architecture
Carl Dworkin will be serving as Teaching Associate for this studio. Portmanian Architecture is architecture characterized by the tropes that constitute the famed atrium hotels…
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Architecture and Public Spaces over the Boston Artery
Elias Torres, Josep Acebillo Marin
The Boston Central Artery, which was opened in 1959, and is being currently demolished and substituted by a tunnel, provides an outstanding opportunity not only…
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Studio Option
Post Blast Lower Manhattan21st C. Civic Humanist InstitutionsTHE CITY AS A LITERARY TEXTTEXT INTERTEXT, CONTEXTPROVOCATION TO PROGRAMPOST BLAST LOWER MANHATTANA DEFINITIVE CITY ARCHITECTURE \”DAS UNBEHAGEN…
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2CC
The focus of this studio is twofold. On the one hand, to study museum typologies in combination or singly parallel to an investigation of geometric…
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Offset Ceilings
Offset CeilingsPreston Scott Cohen, Options Studio, Spring 406Despite dominating the visual field of architectural space and offering the greatest possibility of continuous reinvention, the ceiling…
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Studies on Ecolomy: Iceland/Dubai
Ecology – from Greek oikos: house + logi: study = the study of livingEconomy – from Greek oikos: house + nemein: to manage = the…
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Housing in Nicaragua – Radicalizing the Local: The Neighborhood as Political Unit
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.Studio Overview1. Zones of ConflictThe changing of geo-political boundaries across continents and the unprecedented shifting of…
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Verticalism
This studio is an exploration of the possibilities that the T line, the MTA new subway line under construction beneath 2nd avenue, opens for implementing…
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Where’s Alice?
Where\’s Alice?\”Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you…if you\’re young at heart.\” – Carolyn LeighThe iPhone and Swiss Army knife are commercial…
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New Metabolism
Osaka, the second largest urban region in Japan, initiated several urban renewal projects in the last years. One concrete project currently in preparation is the…
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Architectural Reckoning
The task of designing an addition to a highly respected building requires bringing judgments to bear perhaps more explicitly than in the case of any…
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Ruins, Memory and the Imagination
This studio will navigate the turbulent waters where the currents of History and Architecture converge. While such merger has been a constant impulse in architecture’s…
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IN THE LAND OF ÑANDUTí: following the lines, threads, and figures of the river
This studio will have water as its most conspicuous element. Inside, around and over it, we would develop proposals for intervention in an area of…