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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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…