Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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Superquadras, Projections and Pilotis
The aim of this studio is to generate alternative designs for the development of the last un-built areas (superquadras) in Brasilia, the capital city of…
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The Bone Studio
I claimed once before that the best standardization committee in the world is Nature herself. –Alvar AaltoNature has been a touchstone for architects and theorists…
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Background/Foreground
The aim of the studio will be to explore the dialogue between background and foreground, fabric and object, ensemble and icon, for architecture in the…
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Evoking Nature: Architecture as Landscape on the Emerald Necklace
Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger
Recent artistic and architectural production has seen works which evoke natural phenomenon. These are projects producing atmospheric, geological, topographical or bio-topical conditions. Here nature is…
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Altered Faces: Reworking the Teheran Corridor, Seoul, Korea
Niall Kirkwood, Alistair McIntosh
Instructors:Niall KirkwoodAlistair McIntoshWoo-kyung SimCourse Description:The topic of the studio is the temporal nature of the urban landscape in the 21st century global city. As continued…
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Interstatial Spaces – Central Midtown, New York
INTERSTITIAL SPACES – CENTRAL MIDTOWN, NEW YORK CITYPROTOTYPE / PROVISIONAL SPACE / DESIGN PROPOSITIONThe study area for the studio will be privately owned public spaces…
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Landscape as Urbanism: Milwaukee, Tower Automotive Site
For many designers across a range of disciplines, landscape has recently emerged as a model for contemporary urbanism. This is particularly true in North American…
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Landscape as Urbanism: Milwaukee, Tower Automotive Site
For many designers across a range of disciplines, landscape has recently emerged as a model for contemporary urbanism. This is particularly true in North American…
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Next Stop Wonderland: T.O.D. and transformation
Growing concerns about housing shortages, a desire to achieve equitable economic development throughout the region and a commitment to the protection of natural resources, led…
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Detroit
Over time, cities inhale and exhale. Detroit grew from a frontier trading post to an industrial metropolis, reaching its population peak of about 2 million…
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Urban Form: Moscow – Luzhniki Studio
The Moscow Luzhniki Studio will attempt to address the need for new urban form (and a new urban logic) in the post-Soviet capital and to…
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Square One: Martyrs’ Square, Downtown Beirut, Lebanon
The studio will focus on the design of Martyrs\’ Square in downtown Beirut and on the surrounding urban and waterfront areas. It will tackle several…
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Bringing Harvard Yards to the River
This studio deals with an immediate reality, that of simulating a process of improvement and transformation of the main university quads; at a point in…
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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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Kyiv, Ukraine: The New Dnipro Edge: (Re)defining the City
This design studio is the first at the GSD to focus on Ukraine and its capital city, Kyiv. Like many of the former states of…
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
Independent Study: Shanghai UrbanismProfessor Bing WangProfessor Richard B. PeiserSpring, 2004Units: 4Note: Students must also enroll in and meet with GSD 5212Wednesdays: 2:00-5:00First Session: Wednesday, February…