Courses
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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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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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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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Un-War Architecture
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Allen Sayegh
Since earliest times artists and designers have been major contributors to the Culture of War. War propaganda commissions, design of s uniforms, armor,…
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Real and Imaginary Variables
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged futility of parametric form-giving, this studio celebrates architecture’s critical return to form. Our…
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ARCHITECTURE 2.0: Pending Futures
By 2015, predictions are that the information on the internet will reach a zettabyte (in comparison, all the books in the present Library of Congress…
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Thinking about Home-for-All (Tokyo Study Abroad Studio)
This studio is not part of the option studio lottery. Enrollment is full. This is the studio associated with the Tokyo Study Abroad program.
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The Garden in the Machine: A Demonstration Landscape for Deere & Company
The primary foci of the studio will be: ·The potential of landscape maintenance, its processes, and machinery to inspire potent and inventive program and…
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Gansevoort Peninsula: A 5-acre Unfinished Segment of Hudson River Park, NY, NY
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin
The tremendous expansion of parkland in New York City in the last 15 years has its closest parallel in Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’ building campaign…
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Rethinking the Manhattan Grid: Score for Designing the Future
FRAMEWORK Manhattan’s development has been based on Commissioners’ Plan which has just celebrated its second centenary. The precision of layout, the judicious definition of…
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Neokoolhisms
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, marinas and luxury condominiums; airport hubs, office enclaves, industrial parks, hotel complexes, conference centers, financial centers;…
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Extreme Urbanisms II: Speculations and Alternative Futures for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Rahul Mehrotra, Gareth Doherty
The studio will engage with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as its site for enquiry, research, and design propositions. The pedagogical thrust of…
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The School of the Year 2030 in Rio de Janeiro
In the context of the current efforts of Rio de Janeiro to reformulate and develop public policies for strategic urban development and renewal this studio…
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Thermodynamic somatisms/ Verticalscapes II
The Studio will seek to consolidate an advanced understanding of high‐rise construction in association with thermodynamics and to experiment with various somatic aspects of human…
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Retooling Gabon
Introduction This studio is dedicated to reimagining the future of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, in the wake of recent developments in the country. Gabon holds…
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Peri-urban Development Alternatives for Southwest Beijing:Qinglonghu zhen
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
Overview. Beijing, China is one of the fastest developing urban regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the study and practice…
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A Line in the Andes: Rethinking Quito through its sub-surface
This option studio examines how the introduction of a new metro transit system can serve as the backbone for the development of more comprehensive urban…
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REDISCOVERING GLORiES
Our studio in Barcelona is an ‘atelier` which for us contains a program balancing between those existing in a professional office and those of a…