Courses
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Kandor Architecture
Composition, collage, and montage of precedents, abstract patterns or forms that are not usually associated with architecture – ever since historicism and modernism liberated architects…
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?huh?
“A fundamental tenet of linguistic science is that the sound of a word* has a purely arbitrary connection to the word's* meaning. Thus, the sound…
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Counter-Monumentality: A Big, Vast Interior
Efren Garcia Grinda, Cristina Diaz Moreno
As a continuation of the previous work on Pleasure Gardens, this year the studio will carry out an investigation on the contemporary productive activities, forms…
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Moving Things Around, Exploring Rossi’s Small Scientific Theatre
Aldo Rossi’s project the Small Scientific Theatre from 1978 is taken as a starting point to reflect upon the relation between architecture and image, and…
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Work Environments 3: Space Work
This studio is the third of three sponsored by Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally in work environments.
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Urban Villa (Contemporary Triple Decker)
Triple Decker is a housing typology built mostly in the New England region during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by local developers. The…
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Zero Energy Residential High-Rise
As urbanization and internal migration to existing cities has been on the increase, residential high-rise typology became the norm in many countries. Although this typology…
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Material that Connects: A Campus Center in Chicago
The divide in the field of architecture between the socially focused and the formally explorative grows wider. Why are these two vital aspects of design…
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Forms of Energy: Appearance
Late in his career, architectural historian James Ackerman’s attention shifted to the role of magnificence in the work of Michelangelo and Palladio. Ackerman reflected on…
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Building Industries in African Water Cities
This studio will explore the city of Durban to examine the challenges and opportunities presented by the impacts of urbanization in the social, physical, and…
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Countryside: Rotterdam Study Abroad Option Studio
For almost a decade now, more than half of mankind lives in cities – a statistic that has triggered an exclusive focus on the urban,…
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Sea Rise and Sun Set: Modeling Urban Morphologies for Resilience in Miami Beach
"New infrastructure projects are being developed for a landscape that no longer exists.” — Betsy Kolbert, New Yorker This studio will develop strategies for urban…
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SEQUESTROPOLIS: The City as a Machine for Combating Global Warming
Global warming is the biggest challenge that the human race faces today. Our studio will focus on what a city can do to lower global…
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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…
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Ulsan Remade: Manufacturing the Modern Industrial Landscape
Niall Kirkwood, Francesca Benedetto
This studio will reconsider the City of Ulsan, Republic of Korea’s prime industrial and manufacturing center as part of a more livable and sustainable metropolitan…
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In the Middle of the Streams: Beyond Landscape Architecture Design & Flows
In 2015 Qatar Museums launched an international competition for the rehabilitation of the city’s flour mill complex—a monumental facility located in the Doha harbor— into…
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The Park System as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration
Two venerable American cities – Baltimore and Boston – are independently considering how their park systems, both products of the late 19th century urban park…
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Type, City, Ecology: Hydro-types and Knowledge Environments for a New Township in India
The Harvard GSD project on Palava City is a two-year sponsored research and design project focused on the challenges posed by the construction of a…
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Savannah: Rethinking the Multi-Scalar Capacity of the City Project
James Oglethorpe’s 1733 plan for the city of Savannah is well known for its strong capacity for creating a city in the countryside, but also…
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Sao Paulo: the Rescaling of Rail Infrastructure and New Models of Domestic Life
This advanced option studio will examine how the rescaling and decking of inner city rail infrastructure can serve as a driver for new sites of…
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Kuala Lumpur / Discovering Traces
Spela Videcnik, Rok Oman, David Rubin
The city is a landscape. The connective tissue that binds us all together is the space between buildings, and sometimes on top of them. It…
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The High Line as Urban Spine
The vast majority of urban development is created without an appropriate conceptual urban framework. In dense urban centers, we find an emerging mixed use typology…