Courses
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KING TUT’S SKULL
Mack Scogin, Merrill Elam, Helen Han
This dusty skull was Ol’King Tut’s.I found it in this pyramid.This tiny skull was King Tut’s too(From when he was…
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Block Blob Mat Slab Slat: Art Spaces
“For this requirement there are no typologies”—Rem Koolhaas (teased over the apparent lack of historical perspective in OMA’s proposal for the addition of a…
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Béton Brut and Beyond
Jeanne Gang, Anika Schwarzwald
At a time when it is more essential than ever to conserve resources and prevent carbon pollution—which critically includes limiting the demolition of existing buildings…
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Making Next to Forest
Seventy-one percent of Japan’s northern-most island, Hokkaido, is covered in forest, comprising almost one-quarter of the entire nation’s forested landmass. It is also the center…
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Generic Specificity
Architecture’s most dramatic evolution in the last century has been the increasing fissure between the generic and the specific. As Internationalism at the beginning of…
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Mass Timber and the Scandinavian Effect
1. On Effect: When the Guggenheim Museum opened in Bilbao, Spain in 1997 it produced an instantaneous reaction from around the globe. New pacts were formed between…
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Geometry, Order, and Mannerism
Oliver Lütjens, Thomas Padmanabhan
The architecture of the Italian Renaissance is an architecture consisting of incomplete individual buildings and magnificent urban fragments. The artistic return to antiquity was above…
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Sic. Building Syndrome
“If we are to discuss the faults of building and their correction, we ought first to consider the nature and type of the faults that…
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Studio Abroad. Small is Big; Newborn Typologies from the City without a Manifesto
“For the human mind, the tree is the easiest vehicle for complex thoughts. But the city is not, cannot and must not be a tree.
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Neuralisms Shenzhen: Fictions of Type and Territory
Shenzhen is China’s city of the future, a manufacturing and product development hub unlike any in the world. It is a place where innovation in…