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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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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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…