Courses
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Portmanian Architecture
Carl Dworkin will be serving as Teaching Associate for this studio. Portmanian Architecture is architecture characterized by the tropes that constitute the famed atrium hotels…
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Chamamé: The intangible rhythms of the Guarani Region
This will be the second of three proposed Architecture Design Studios to study and develop architectural design proposals in an area of South America that…
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Blob Block Slab Mat Slat
Teased over the apparent lack of historical perspective in OMA’s proposal for the extension of the Dutch Parliament (1978), Rem Koolhaas quipped that the brief…
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Boxes for America
This studio is the 13th incarnation of Architecture Without Content. Architecture Without Content started as research on the Big Box in 2010. The idea being…
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Work Environments 1: Campus and Event
This studio is the first out of three studios that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that take place globally in environments where…
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Re-Defining Urban Living
The studio will deal with contemporary urban conditions, exploring optimal ways to live in the city but also the meaning of overused terms such as…
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OBJECT STUDIO
Our objective will be to precisely define projects based on the simultaneous presence of three conditions: 1_ Place. Here, it is the city, at…
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Spartan Unwonted
I’ll have the “Spartan” Special rare, please with a side of straddle-ramp salad just a touch of Boudoir sauce and a…
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Third Natures: London Pleasure Gardens
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén Garcia Grinda (The Consortium of Fantastic Ideas) The notion of the building as a Third Nature explores the possibility of…
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Agora MML : Reimaging La Merced Market as a New Landscape of Agricultural and Cultural Endeavors
Teaching Associate: Adriana Chávez Emergent conditions demand new paradigms in all fields. In today´s new world, old categories will not suffice: local vs. global, modern…
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Montreal is Back: It’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations
Renee Daoust, Aisling O’Carroll
Montreal Is Back: it’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations Place des Nations 2017 – towards a new iconicity The heritage view…
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The Barracks of Pion: Developing the edge of the Park of Versailles
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Versailles is often considered as the place of the invention of the classic city. Strikingly, the shapes of the city respond to those of the…
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America’s Boutique City
Adriaan Geuze, Claire Agre, Rachel Laszlo Tait
With the rise of new economies and the influx of Millennials and Empty Nesters, it seems there is a new urban biotope. Some American cities…
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Craft, Politics, and the Production of Housing in Oaxaca, Mexico
Studio Overview: This is the 2nd studio sponsored by INFONAVIT, the federal agency responsible for the origination of home mortgages for workers across the…
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Re-thinking “Urban Grids” in Hangzhou
The construction of modern Hangzhou can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies. Its recent development has occurred at unprecedented rates,…
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A Campus for the 21st Century: The Purisima Alameda District of Monterrey
Felipe Correa, Carlos Garciavelez
This option studio will examine the role of the academic institution as a driver of an intermediate scale urban project. The studio will focus on…
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Extreme Urbanism III
Jose Mayoral Mortilla will serve as Teaching Associate for this studio. The South Asian city exemplifies contemporary challenges in planning, designing, and constructing the built…
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The Calumet Collaborations: Daniel Burnham Meets Andre Breton on the South Side of Chicago
Chicago, lake-sided and magnificently flat, gridded to the horizon, studied and troubled, is ever ready for reimagining. What better moment than the impending 119th anniversary…
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Study Abroad Option Studio: “Poor but Sexy”: Berlin, The New Communal
Frank Barkow, Arno Brandlhuber
Former Berlin Mayor Klaus “Wowi” Wowereit’s claim in 2004 that Berlin is “Arm aber Sexy”, poor but sexy, set the tone for a post-reunification milieu…