Courses
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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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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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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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Near Future
NEAR FUTUREStudio Option 1315GSD — Spring 2008Lise Anne Couture with Christopher Johnson and Volkan AlkanogluSyllabusOver the last fifty years the city of Brasilia has been…
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Experiments in Tessellation: Airport Terminal
Experiments in Tessellation: The Airport TerminalAirport terminals are essentially \’sheds\’- large volumes of space, with long spans and no major subdivisions, to cater for the…
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Mexico City Studio Option
This course will have an irregular schedule. To be determined.The MX ProjectWe are proposing a project for a site in the historical Centre of Mexico…
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Urban Sports Culture: A New Football Statium for Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires
Introduction — Background and Contextual parameters1) The Physical Context. The UBA-FAU\’s \”Area Sur\” Study: A study is currently being carried out by a research team…
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Paradise Extension: True Confessions of a 21st Century Objectivist
The aim of this studio is to investigate what each student participating believes to be their objects of desire. What values, function, form, language of…
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Landscaping Urbanisms / Urbanizing Landscapes
Manhattan is experiencing an unbridled period of urban redevelopment. Across the island, neighborhoods are being subjected to radical reinvention. The city\’s post-war collective housing projects…
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Asphalt: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
The goal of the Asphalt Studio is to inspire change in the way we think about asphalt spaces. The asphalt landscape is the most public…
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CAMOUFLAGE METROPOLE: Mourne and Cooley Ranges, Ireland
OVERVIEWSet within the dramatic environs of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains that inspired the mystical landscapes and folkloric creatures of the Chronicles of Narnia by…
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Urban Surplus. Maastricht
FRAMEWORKThe studio, uses the city of Maastricht (Netherlands) as a potentially rich site to explore the transformation processes of a paradigmatic mid size European capital…
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Burlington, Vermont: New Urban Design Possibilities for the Downtown Core
Burlington is Vermont\’s largest city. That said it is also the smallest U. S. city that is the largest in its state. It is routinely…
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CAMOUFLAGE METROPOLE: Mourne and Cooley Ranges, Ireland
OVERVIEWSet within the dramatic environs of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains that inspired the mystical landscapes and folkloric creatures of the Chronicles of Narnia by…
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The Urban Roles of a Semi-Dry River: Chihuahua & Its Chuvuscar River
Humanity delights in and finds inspiration at waterfront settings, and often chooses to celebrate or express civic ambitions at water\’s edge. Imagine the Sydney Opera…
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Lisbon: European Atlantic Capital
LISBON: EUROPEAN ATLANTIC CAPITALIntroductionThis Urban Design studio is sponsored by the Fundacao Luso-Americana (Luso-American Foundation) of Lisbon, and it has been kindly procured by Mr.
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Independent Studio by Candidates for Master’s Degrees
An individual design studio may be arranged to develop a concept or problem not available in regularly offered studios. Students must submit an independent studio…