Courses
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Quito and the Elasticity of the Spanish American Block
Using the city of Quito as a laboratory, this studio examines the urban legacy, current decline, and future opportunities of the Spanish-American colonial grid. It…
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Zhengzhou: Designing Critical Nodes for the “Urban Grids”
The fast-growing process in the Metropolis is associated with the large expansion of buildings and infrastructure, but also to the radical transformation of previous urban…
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The Industrious City: Rethinking Urban Industry in the Digital Age
Markus Schaefer, Hiromi Hosoya
Cities have always been places where commerce and production, working and living, are physically and functionally integrated. Only with the rise of industry have zoning…
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Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid Housing Typologies, Elphinstone Estate, Mumbai
This studio will focus on questions of housing in the city of Mumbai. Exponential real estate values coupled with a burgeoning population and lack of…
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Urban Disobedience: 99 Provocations to Disrupt Injustice in St. Louis
The legacy of discriminatory laws, urban disinvestment, the decline of the industrial economy, shifts to a knowledge-based economy, concentrated poverty, physical, social and political divides,…
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Between Earth and Sky: A Building for the HafenCity, Hamburg
The setting for this studio is the HafenCity in Hamburg, which is currently one of Europe’s most ambitious urban transformations. Over twenty years to date,…
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Phantom Urbanism
Reinier de Graaf, Ricardo Solar
“We think out of the box so you don’t have to live in one.”Limitless billboard, Dubai, UAE. Once cities were designed to accommodate…