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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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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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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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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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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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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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…