Courses
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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…