Courses
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Territorio Guarani III
This is the third consecutive studio investigating architectural strategies and modes of intervention in the culturally and environmentally rich Territorio Guarani, the South American region…
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Misapplied Mies Applied (Final): The Performance Shed (Cancelled)
“The Bauhaus has a certain idea, but this idea has nothing to do with politics. Look at your writing table, this shabby writing table. Do…
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(Re) planned Obsolescence… Rethinking the Architecture of Waste
Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio Villoria
Despite the recent emergence of a number of novel industrial buildings, the role of the designer, and specifically the Architect, has been largely absent from…
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Work Environments 2: Glass Works
This studio is the second of three sponsored by the furniture company Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally…
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Center for the Performing Arts at the Cranbrook Educational Community
The studio problem will be the design of a performing arts center on the historic Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Eliel Saarinen lived on…
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Third Natures. London’s Typological Imagination
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
The second reincarnation of Third Natures at the GSD is based on three premises that will determine the content and scope of the projects that…
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etceteras
Something like that, You know what I mean So on and so on Ad infinitum Such as So forth…
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Redesigning the Actor Network in Rural Areas around Tokyo
Momoyo Kaijima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
This studio aims to propose instrumental space in the rural areas around Tokyo, intervening into an alternative actor network (Bruno Latour) that governs the area’s…
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Readymade Architecture
Readymade, defined by André Breton and Paul Éluard in 1938 is “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the…
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Rotterdam Studio Abroad: Smart Countrysides
The 2016 Spring Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio will be a collaborative effort with Niklas Maak and Sebastien Marot exploring new forms of research and engagement…
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Seoul Remade: Design of the ‘Kool’ and the Everyday
The central issue of the studio is the remaking of a contemporary city landscape, fabric and district in Seoul, Korea which is undergoing rapid transformation.
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Miami Rise and Sink: Design for Urban Adaptation
This studio addresses contemporary conditions for ‘urban adaptation’ in an era of sea level rise, and forms a portion of the Office for Urbanization’s research…
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Southampton Quay
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Le Havre is a major European port located in Upper Normandy at the mouth of the Seine. The city was built at the entrance to…
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Frontier City
The early 21st century is defined by the information age, and characterized by a shift from traditional industries into a knowledge-based economy. This phenomenon forms…
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Housing in Merida Yucatan: the urban and the territorial
This is the 3rd studio sponsored by INFONAVIT, the National Workers Housing Institute of Mexico. As in previous years, this studio seeks to generate new…
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“Regular City” in Chongqing: Searching for Domesticated Superstructures
The Studio sets out to interpret urban evolution in Chongqing in order to draw conclusions for the hypothesis of central city development at the heart…
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Oh, Jerusalem: Eternal Center / Generic Periphery
“Jerusalem …. focus of the struggle between the Abrahamic religions, the shrine for increasingly popular Christian, Jewish and Islamic fundamentalism, the strategic battlefield of clashing…
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Extreme Urbanism IV: Looking at Hyper Density – Dongri, Mumbai
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai was the sixth most expensive city globally to rent an…
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The Factory and the City: Rethinking the industrial spaces of the developmental city
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Wood, Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial
Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe, Daniel Ibanez
Ironically, architects and landscape architects are their most vague in the act of specification. Designers have little idea of what specifying something as seemingly prosaic…
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Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis
This advanced option studio will examine the role of new mass transit infrastructure as a driver for new models of collective space, in a context…