Courses
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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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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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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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Type and Topography
This studio is the third in a series that explores the mutual determinacy of architectural and urban form. The aim is to explore new models…
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Material Systems/Structural Geometry: America¿s Cup, San Francisco
The proliferation of architectural design focused on building form defined by modulated systems suggests the importance of finding evermore sophisticated modes of translation between material…
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Islands in Time
This studio is led by Ben van Berkel, Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor, and assisted by Instructor Imola Berczi. Please see the studio schedule below.\”I have…
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The Architecture of Interstitial Urbanism
Paul Nakazawa will serve as Co-Instructor, and Joao Paulo Meirelles de Faria is the Teaching Assistant.This option studio will seek to generate alternative design strategies…
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Center for Limnology: Divided Waters in Chicago
This studio is led by Jeanne Gang, Design Critic, and assisted by Instructor John Wolters. Please see the studio schedule below. The studio requires analyzing…
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Beyond Paris: The Palaiseau Campus at Paris Saclay
IntroductionResearch on strategies for new campuses in the Paris region continues in this third studio on the subject. The growth of metropolitan Paris beyond its…
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Architectural Design V – IX: Urban Design Studio “Contested Waters, Mumbai”
Option studion in Zurich, ETH.
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Between the Bridges: Beyond Infrastructure
Stephen Cassell, Susannah Drake
The effects of climate change necessitate a radical rethinking of the role of ecology and infrastructure within the city. While the full magnitude of the…
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Peri-urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe
This planning and design studio will focus on alternative landscape/urban futures for the town of Taihu (Taihuzhen), located at the low-lying southeastern periphery of Beijing,…
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Landscape Morphology
The studio will focus on the transformation of a former airfield into a metropolitan park over a 10-year period with landscape as a medium between…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Toni L. Griffin, Andrea Hansen
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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EXTREME URBANISM: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Studio will explore the condition of extreme urbanism in the form of social, cultural and economic disparities and how these manifest themselves in the…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Andrea Hansen, Toni L. Griffin
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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EXTREME URBANISM: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Studio will explore the condition of extreme urbanism in the form of social, cultural and economic disparities and how these manifest themselves in the…
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Overurbanism
\”that the destiny of humanity depends upon the attainment of its highest type.\” Friedrich Nietzsche, \’The Will to Power\’Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, bundles, clusters, and…
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Verticalscapes/Chicago
What is a VERTICALSCAPE?: An hybrid entity which, due to inertia, we momentarily continue to call vertical construction or \”architecture\”. This vertical \”entity\” is an…
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Beyond Paris: The Palaiseau Campus at Paris Saclay
IntroductionResearch on strategies for new campuses in the Paris region continues in this third studio on the subject. The growth of metropolitan Paris beyond its…
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What’s in Store, Baltimore?
Central Baltimore (not to be confused with Downtown Baltimore), is an area at the geographic center of the city whose high residential and commercial vacancy,…
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Peri-urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe
This planning and design studio will focus on alternative landscape/urban futures for the town of Taihu (Taihuzhen), located at the low-lying southeastern periphery of Beijing,…