Courses
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Second Semester Core: Introduction to Design and Visual Studies in Architecture
Cameron Wu, John Hong, Mariana Ibanez, Katy Barkan, Jeffry Burchard, Elizabeth Whittaker, Ingeborg Rocker
The overarching pedagogical agenda for second semester is to expand upon the methodology of technique from the first semester such that students should develop an…
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Fourth Semester Core: Architectural Design
Florian Idenburg, Danielle Etzler, Jinhee Park, Eric Howeler, Spela Videcnik, Renata Sentkiewicz
The last of a four-semester sequence of design studios concludes the introduction to architectural design by emphasizing students\’ elaboration and substantiation of ideas through complex…
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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…
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Drawing in the City of Rome
While this course takes place in Italy after the end of the Spring semester, it is technically a fall course and units will apply…
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Responsive Environments
Advances in current embedded sensing and actuating technologies combined with media is creating an unprecedented opportunities in blurring the boundaries between the digital and…
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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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Projection/Installation/Intervention
Projection: Latin: Projectum, Proicere: Pro:forth, Jacere:throw, Throw-Forth, (in place and time) Action, process, state, condition, technique, effect of throwing out, away and…
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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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Masters at the beginning of the XXI Century
The lecture course serves to emphasize my belief that a critical reflection on contemporary architecture is always helpful to allow students to reflect on why…
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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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Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Since the first pronouncements of the \’death\’ of painting in the post-Abstract Expressionist era, art consistently sought to radicalize its practice by overturning the traditional…
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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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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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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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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing the general rupture caused…
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Frames of Mind: Approaches to Film Theory
Introduction to the language of film theory aimed at developing analytic skills to interpret films. Historical survey of classical and contemporary theory beginning with turn-of-the-century…
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Rome and St. Peters
The art and architecture of Rome from Antiquity to Modernity with particular attention to the Vatican, where the layering of material artifacts from successive…
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Michelangelo: Precedents, Innovations, Influence
An exploration of Italian Renaissance architecture and urbanism through the persona of Michelangelo as witness, agent, and inspiration. We look at architecture and urbanism…
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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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Architecture, Science and Technology, XVIIIth Century-Present
Since the first industrial revolution, science and technology have constantly challenged architecture. Technology in particular has represented a powerful source of change for architecture.
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Baroque Architecture
Lecture-based survey in a traditional historical vein of European architecture from 1600 to 1750, with the work of Michelangelo as prelude and Piranesi as closure.
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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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Case Studies in Critical Conservation: Architecture and Cities
This course analyzes international case studies in the conservation of buildings and urban environments as a means for developing projective strategies for interpreting and…
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Materials, Constructions, Processes
The course introduces a conceptual framework for the design of building assemblies, as informed by a clear understanding of construction technologies and of the properties…
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Environmental Technologies in Buildings
The primary focus of this course is the study of the thermal, luminous and acoustic behavior of buildings in an architectural context. The course examines…
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Analysis and Design of Building Structures II
A continuation of GSD 6227, this course provides students with an enhanced understanding of structural analysis and engineering design concepts. Students learn the fundamentals of…
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In Search of Design through Engineers
Hanif Kara, Andreas Georgoulias
This course aims to teach, stimulate and demonstrate \”design led\” opportunities that exist in the zone between Architecture and Engineering, through the paradigm of…
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Architectural Design in Detail
Architectural design encompasses multiple scales from that of the city to the smallest details of construction, transitions and surface. The excellence of design can be…
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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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Optimizations: Material Distributions
This course explores the role of structural optimization methods in design and fabrication problems. In a series of experiments, students will try to materialize and…
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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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Fabrication of Composites
Natural/Bio-fiber composites (Bio-Composites) are emerging as a viable alternative to glass and carbon fiber reinforced composites. The combination of natural, bio-fibers like Hemp, Flax, Jute,…
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What is energy and how (else) might we think about it?
Designers today require radically different intellectual frameworks within which to think energy, environment, and ecology. The need to rethink applies not only to the positivist…
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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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Real-Time Cities: an Introduction to Urban Cybernetics
In real-time cities, urbanity merges with digital information so that the built environment is dynamically sensed and synchronously actuated to perform more efficiently, intelligently, and…
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