Courses
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Borderline(s) investigation #1 – Lightness
Stephanie Bru, Alexandre Theriot
Studio topic: Economy & Excess We aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or…
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Adaptive Quality
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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Unterbau City
Sharon Johnston, Hanif Kara, David Fixler
The studio will challenge the supposed opposition between heritage and progress in a mixed-use development within the Regent Quarter, a 6.2 acres site in London.
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The House: A Machine, Queer and Simple
Andrew Holder, Brennan Gerard, Ryan Kelly
What is a house? Who lives in one? And how? These are queer things to ask, insofar as the naivete of the questions implies an…
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A Paradoxical Paradox
Our writing system was devised by people who couldn’t read. Paradox:A statement or proposition that, despite sound reasoning from acceptable premises, leads…
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Eco Folly – Design
Our design research studio takes the folly as a typological springboard for coalescing formal creativity and sustainable imperatives. Whether at the scale of the structure,…
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Tall, Lean, In-between
The studio will consider three recent challenges facing the design of tall residential buildings in London: the stringent requirements for their careful placement and contextual…
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Kit House
The studio will explore the potential convergence of the American twentieth century tradition of the Kit House (exemplified by the Sears Modern Homes of 1908-1940)…
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Tokyo: Artifice and the Social World
The architectural and urban projects of this studio are focused on the potentials of the declining, yet evocative area of Tokyo known as Bakuroch? Yokoyamach?.
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Utopia: Forms of Community
Oliver Lütjens, Thomas Padmanabhan
We need new forms of housing for a more sustainable and more just way of life. Architecture is a language of form. Only by radically…
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The Shape of Things to Come
‘The Shape of Things to Come’ was the title of the 1971 Newsweek article which explored the role of the architect to help shape the…
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CANARY IN THE MINE II: Wildfires and Rural Communities in Guinea-Bissau
Indigenous burning practices in mitigating wildfires in Africa are still an overlooked topic in landscape stewardship, food security, and community wellbeing. This gap is particularly…
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Below, Above, and Beyond: Abandoned Underground Subway Infrastructures as Urban Form and Experience
This studio aims to propose a near-future scenario for the abandoned underground infrastructures of the subway system of Boston and its vicinity, with a focus…
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OTTAWA COUNTY REMADE: Toxic Transformations in the Tri-State Lead and Zinc District, Oklahoma
OTTAWA COUNTY REMADE is the second in a series of design studios based in North-East Oklahoma that explores toxic land regeneration, indigenous ecologies and their…
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Wild Ways: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles
Playing off Reyner Banham’s classic Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies, the studio will explore themes of connectivity, resilience and landscape infrastructure under the…
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Leveraging Boston’s Building Boom to Advance Equity
A transit-oriented development on Dorchester Bay is a case study in creating ties to institutions and diverse neighborhoods on the south side of the city. …
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Airport Urban Districts for a New Age
Rethinking airports in the context of environmental crisis challenges for exploring efficient intermodal transportation nodes as new frontier for developing the future. The right combination…
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A Moratorium on New Construction
“We need to stop constructing in order to start building.”— Menna Agha Back in March 2020, everything stopped. Or so it seemed. Worldwide, construction…
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Transversal Grounds: Engaging Infrastructure, Landscape and Heritage for Lima’s New Urban Commons
Sandra Barclay, Jean-Pierre Crousse
In developing countries, heritage sites in urban settings often collide with urban growth and economic expansion. Lima has more than 385 archeological sites within its…
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LATIN AMERICA IN TRANSITION: Imagining Infrastructures for Climatic Migration
The world is facing a moment of growing climate and migratory uncertainty. The accelerated intensity of natural and humanitarian disasters is giving rise to new…
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Quo Vadis, Addis?
The design studio Quo Vadis, Addis? addresses the question of how to integrate manufacturing in the textile and garment sector within the socio-spatial fabric of…
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Houston: Extreme Weather, Environmental Justice and the Energy Transition
This multidisciplinary studio will use the lenses of climate adaptation, climate mitigation and climate justice to explore the design opportunities that could come with a…
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Bangkok: New Landscapes of Equity and Prosperity
Anita Berrizbeitia, Alejandro Echeverri, Tomas Folch
This studio will bring together faculty and graduate students from diverse disciplinary backgrounds to imagine how Bangkok can be designed for the future as a…