Courses
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WHYCANTWEJUSTDANCE?? HUMANEORIGINSINNOCENTOBSESSIONSANDCHEAPSHOES
Why can’t we just dance? Humane Origins Innocent Obsessions And Cheap Shoes What is architecture’s role today in…
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The Studio Studio
The architectural treatise and manifesto have disappeared. Today, we have architectural theory and criticism of architecture. But is it possible to call any contemporary building…
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Ruins, Memory and the Imagination
This studio will navigate the turbulent waters where the currents of History and Architecture converge. While such merger has been a constant impulse in architecture’s…
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Real and Imaginary Variables II
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, this studio explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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Geometry of Span and Flight
Robert Levit, Rodolphe el-Khoury
Formal themes: The evolution of digitally driven formal experiment has taken a turn away from its freewheeling origins in the first flush of digitally-derived…
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Ecologics: Refiguring the Civic Ground
Christoph Reinhart and Matthew Waxman will collaborate on this studio. What is the role of architecture in urbanism and what is the role of…
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Basel Study Abroad Studio Option: The City and Energy, A typological study
Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
Contemporary discussion on energy and architecture is largely dictated by the condition of scarcity. We often hear that our cities and our buildings are responsible…
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A Landscape of Security
This studio will explore the idea of the landscape as a means of security. Throughout history gardens or estates have been created as places to…
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Relational Urbanism: Taiwanism
Eduardo Rico Carranza, Enriqueta Llabres Valls
The official studio days are Tuesday and Thursday, but the instructors will be available on other days to meet individually with students at mutually agreeable…
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Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kelly Doran
Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia is a studio that will explore the material and ecological processes and byproducts of the highly…
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Between Geometry and Geography: Mexico City
Tenochtitlan/Mexico City Carlos Garciavelez will serve as Teaching Associate in Urban Design for this option studio. “I think, no injury to say the past…
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Utopioids / The Generic Sublime IV
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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The Flexible Leviathan: Reconsidering Scale and Fixity in the Contemporary Metropolis
Mexico City is one of the most dynamic and complex metropolitan areas in the world today. With over 20.1 million inhabitants, remarkable urban…
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Urban Grafting: New Dwelling Landscapes for the Extended City
The Option Studio welcomes students from Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architecture and Landscape backgrounds with at least two previous relevant design experiences. Its aim is…
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On the Order of Objects: Mediating between Monuments, Museums, and Megaliths in the Historic Center of Istanbul
SUMMARY The studio is set in the area around the old Byzantine hippodrome in the historic center of Istanbul. Here an accumulation of buildings…
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Chicago Grid: In Search For New Paradigms
Chicago can be seen as a paradigm city for its rapid growth and transformation, its economic importance and its innovative contributions to the techniques of…
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Green-Heart Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta: The Haizhu, Guangzhou Case
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
The site of this studio will be the 1200 ha. Wanmu Orchard, a key resource of the planned Haizhu Ecological District, situated in the centre…
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Thermodynamic Madrid. A New Good Life
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler
This course explores new methods, tools, scales, and materials to address the renovation of historic centers outside both the radical preservationism of the protectionist theories…