Courses
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Digital Media for Design
The course will focus on the interrogation and acquisition of different emerging and established digital design approaches for designers. Students will gain knowledge of digital…
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Superficial Spaces FAV
At a time when architectural discourse and practice are (still) brimming with references to new geometries, this offering investigates the architectural potential of abstract three-dimensional…
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Immersive Environments II
This is an advanced seminar exploring the spatial temporal qualities of the built environment through the disciplines of still and moving image. This seminar will…
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Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Communicating Architecture, The Architect as Author and Editor
The Course is a discussion forum as much as a hands-on lab – to debate the conditions of communication in architecture and the transition from…
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Design Anthropology: Objects, Landscapes, Cities
In recent years, there has been a movement in anthropology toward a focus on objects, while design and planning have been moving toward the…
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Global Redesign Project
In the last few iterations of this seminar, we have started to extend our skillset as designers of the built environment to outside of our…
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Paths of Leisure and the South American Project
Within the first decades of the Twentieth century Oscar Niemeyer conceived innovative hostels in Minas Gerais Brazil. Riding the summits of the Avila above…
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Air in Motion / Thermodynamic Materialism
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler, Jianxiang Huang
The air has been treated in architecture and its historiography as an element which existence is recognized, but about which only one could speak metaphorically,…
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Masters at the beginning of the XXI Century: Texts
This seminar course serves to examine and comment on the texts related to the works of the architects Rem Koolhaas, Herzog + DeMeuron, Sejima +…
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Critical Ecologies
Over the past 30 years, the study and practice of ecology has broadened from a classical Newtonian paradigm and a Kuhnian normal science focused on…
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The Mixed-Reality City
Jesse Shapins, James Burns, Yanni Loukissas
The contemporary city is constituted by multiple overlapping, intermixing realities articulated between built form and imagined space, individuated experience and collective memory, embodied sensation and…
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Grids, Score for Designing the City
Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation of recent urbanistic projects…
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Basel Study Abroad Seminar: Islands: The Career of a Metaphor
From Karl Ehn’s Karl Marx Hof to Le Corbusier’s Unité d’Habitation, housing in classical modernity formed self-sufficient ideal worlds. These were characterized by a rupture…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered China in the aftermath of the Opium War and signing of the Treaty…
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Visual Fabrics: Film, Fashion and Material Culture
What is the place of materiality in our virtual world? How do film and fashion communicate as objects of material culture? As powerful image makers,…
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Sensing the Built Environment Through Time
What is the relationship between vision, sound, smell, taste and touch, and the built environment? How have people perceived, experienced, and as a result used,…
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Structure, Infrastructure, and Ornament
With the rise of digital culture, ornament is back. Its return has been accompanied with recurring interrogations regarding the need to redefine tectonics, and…
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Field Studies in Real Estate, Planning & Urban Design: Hudson Railroad Yards, New York City
Richard Peiser, Bing Wang, A. Eugene Kohn
The Field Study course is designed to provide students an understanding of the dynamics and complexities of reality that create contemporary urban physical environments. The…
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North Hollywood Field Study: Suburban Transit-oriented Town Center Redevelopment
North Hollywood’s town center sits at the junction of the subway to downtown Los Angeles and the bus lines serving the San Fernando Valley. North…
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Housing Policy in the United States: The Intersection of the Public and Private Sectors
In the 20th century, housing policy in the United States crafted a complex finance and delivery system that is the envy of the world. This…
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Material Ecologies Workshop
Landscapes are shaped by continuous flows of materials and energy driven by anthropogenic and non-anthropogenic forces. Designers participate in this reorganization of materials around the…
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Thermoregulation Using Hybrid Materials
This seminar is about designing hybrid materials to orchestrate the flow of heat through buildings in novel ways. The primary aim is inspire…
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(Re)fabricating Tectonic Prototypes
Leire Asensio-Villoria, instructor, with Hanif Kara, structural consultant The course is framed by a general ambition to develop explorations in digital design, fabrication and parametric…
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Forms of Energy: Maximum Power Design
Few words can transform the formation and functions of architecture in this century more than a deep and pervasive recognition that matter is but an…
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Quantitative Aesthetics: Models of Movement
This course is looking at computational approaches to digital media that allow us to analyze and reinterpret our environment as a signal. This year we…
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Designing Things for Humans
Architects and urbanists are good at responding to briefs. Traditional design briefs are conceived as abstractions of perceived needs, specifications or market opportunities. The…
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Visualization
The amount and complexity of information produced in science, engineering, business, and everyday human activity is increasing at staggering rates. The goal of this course…
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Urban Theory Lab Research Seminar
In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre anticipated a situation of "generalized urbanization" in which an "urban fabric" would be extended to encompass the entire planet. …
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On Atmospheres and Design
What is atmosphere? Is it air and weather? Or is it the in-between—effect, matter, immaterial, space, ephemera? How is atmosphere(s) designed when it seems to…
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Kinetic City: Research Seminar on Temporal Urbanism
The research seminar will explore the phenomenon of temporal urbanism. The intention of the course is to expose students to the existing literature of…
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Research Methods in Landscape Architecture
This seminar offers an overview of various types and practices of research methodology in contemporary landscape architecture. Central to the ambitions of the course is…
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Discourse and Methods
This course is open only to Ph.D. students in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning and Design (other FAS Ph.D. students may participate with instructor\’s…