Courses
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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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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…