Courses
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Light/Materiality/Threshold: A Community Boathouse for Martha’s Vineyard
Site:Located on the west shore of Vineyard Haven Harbor, the community boathouse site negotiates the edge condition between land and water, including a rocky beach…
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The Chilean Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. The rigorous construction of a pleasant place
The most clarifying description about what architecture is supposed to do, was given by the Chilean architect Fernando Perez, in an essay entitled the Mirror…
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City of Knowledge
Approaching the \’City of Knowledge\’ along the Charles river you sense that you are passing into a place apart. The surreal spires, boldly shaped and…
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Educational Center
Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky
This studio will explore architecture\’s role in support of a public institution. An institution\’s goals and ideals are manifest in a program that underlies how…
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A Bridge and a Pavilion in Bilbao
The studio will focus on the design of a pedestrian bridge and a pavilion in Bilbao, Spain. The pedestrian bridge crosses the Ria del Bilbao…
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Baseball in the City
Project: Yankee StadiumThere has been little academic attention given to the design of stadiums. The lack of critical thinking is evidenced in the default formula…
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Automotive Design as a Laboratory for Disciplinary Dynamics
It may be a clichi to notice that the disciplinary boundaries of architecture have been loosened by advances in information technology, but it is not…
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Berlin: The Museum Island and Beyond
Berlin: The Museum Island and BeyondAn architectural vision for the extension of the Museum IslandA new gallery for the Old MastersBerlin\’s Museum Island is the…
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Dublin Studio
Dublin Studio Karen McEvoy & Merritt BucholzIn collaboration with Matthias SchullerDublin StudioA CITY is a living organism, continually mutating, continually seeking equilibrium, continually challenged to…
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Funerary Complex
ScenarioA woman in her mid forties recently received a sizable inheritance which includes her family\’s funeral home business. Like many family owned and operated funeral…
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Field Trip
FIELD TRIP\”Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching…
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Sculpture Park and Cultural Building, South East London
The WILKINSON EYRE studio will be setting a design brief for a Sculpture Park and Cultural Building on the site of the old Crystal Palace…
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Architecture(s) of Geopolitical Transgression
Korea\’s Demilitarized Zone is the last major scar left from the Cold War conflicts between communism and capitalism that characterized much of the second half…
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2CC
The focus of this studio is twofold. On the one hand, to study museum typologies in combination or singly parallel to an investigation of geometric…
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Superquadras, Projections and Pilotis
The aim of this studio is to generate alternative designs for the development of the last un-built areas (superquadras) in Brasilia, the capital city of…
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The Bone Studio
I claimed once before that the best standardization committee in the world is Nature herself. –Alvar AaltoNature has been a touchstone for architects and theorists…
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Background/Foreground
The aim of the studio will be to explore the dialogue between background and foreground, fabric and object, ensemble and icon, for architecture in the…
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Evoking Nature: Architecture as Landscape on the Emerald Necklace
Frank Barkow, Regine Leibinger
Recent artistic and architectural production has seen works which evoke natural phenomenon. These are projects producing atmospheric, geological, topographical or bio-topical conditions. Here nature is…
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Building in and for Marfa TX: A Train Station Hotel and the Marfa Baths
The studio will design a project across the street from the Judd Foundation, on Main Street in Marfa, Texas. Programmatic requirements will include: a train…
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Chile MMX
In MMX Chile will complete 200 years of independent republican life. There are 2 major projects in Santiago to celebrate this occasion:A Hill and a…
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A Conservatory for the Botanical Garden at Cornell Plantations
The horticultural conservatory is one of the most fascinating building types in the whole history of modern architecture. From Joseph Paxton\’s and Decimus Burton\’s early…
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Border Station: San Ysidro, California
Just north of the line dividing the United States and Mexico, the US government is planning the construction of its newest border facility in San…
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Soft
Collaborative and interdisciplinary in spirit, this sponsored studio will explore the design potentials of an emerging set of soft, flexible polymer technologies that deliver and…
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Sculpturecenter: Lic, New York. addition-connection
The studio\’s focus is the SculptureCenter, a non-profit cultural insitution whose mission is to champion contemporary sculpture in all of its forms. It supports experimentation…
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Open Figures: The Contouring of Architecture
OPEN FIGURES: THE CONTOURING OF ARCHITECTUREIncreasingly, contemporary architecture is faced with demands to produce buildings that evince both an immanent flexibility (read: multiplicity) and a…
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Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building
The aim of the studio will be to develop new methods of design and construction adapted to the specific needs of the Ecuadorian Rain Forest,…
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Micro Public Space by Flux Management
The purpose of this studio is to create a public space by modulating and treating matters characterized by \’small-ness\’, \’sprouting\’ and \’flow\’, and to generate…
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Weatherize
weather…Beyond media-perfect weather catastrophes, this studio researches issues of weather in our everyday culture and its effect on architecture.…newsBy now, every year has its millenium…
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“My Way” – A Trip to Gee’s Bend
America Irby, \”Ma Willie\” Abrams, Indiana Bendolph, Della Mae Bridges, Seebell Kennedy, Pearlie Pettway Hall, Jeesie T. \”Bootnie\” Pettway, Sue Willie Seltzer, Fannie T. Westbrook,…
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New Central Library for Shantou University
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
Shantou University has ambitious plans to grow in quality (not in quantity) to become one of the foremost educational hubs in China.The tropical vegetation offers…
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Unanticipated Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas
George Baird, Richard Marshall
Las Vegas isn\’t phony anything: it has its own resounding, relentless identity. And Vegas is arguably the most interesting American city of the moment, the…
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Studio Option
Post Blast Lower Manhattan21st C. Civic Humanist InstitutionsTHE CITY AS A LITERARY TEXTTEXT INTERTEXT, CONTEXTPROVOCATION TO PROGRAMPOST BLAST LOWER MANHATTANA DEFINITIVE CITY ARCHITECTURE \”DAS UNBEHAGEN…
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Eyes in the Heat: Optics and Violence: A New Museum at Queens West
Project Description: Long Island City, New York CityTwo major initiatives have created significant new pressure on the redevelopment of Long Island City in New York.
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The Temporal Field – A Sports and Recreation Center
This project for a student recreation center will involve a range of explorations of temporal phenomena that influence architectural space, form and structure. Students will…
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Japan Transfer
In an era characterized by instant global communication and transfer ofinformation, architecture remains a powerful and tangible instrument of cultural exchange. To explore this proposition…
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Studio Option
My pedagogy is mainly based in fostering observation and the fact that architecture relays in the comprehension of our surrounding world. Indeed, from that comprehension…
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Sighting the Cirque du Soleil
Founded by a small group of former street performers from rural Quebec, the Cirque du Soleil mounted its first show under an 800 seat tent…
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Scarcity
This studio is about doing Social Housing in Chile. Why? Because the scarcity of time (urgency to solve the need for shelter) and money (lack…
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Exhibition and Introspection: New Building Complex for the Art Institute of Boston
site:The site is located between the busy chaos of Mass. Ave. and a quite residential neighborhood of Historic Avon Hill in Cambridge near the T-stop…
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Beijing: Urbanism
After Marco Polo finishes his stories about Venice, Kublai Khan, in return, offers his version of invisible cities:City of Walls, Introverted City, City of Horizon,…
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Weather Monitoring Station
WEATHER MONITORING STATION IN ICELAND The studio will look at current and future digital technologies / soft wares, which are applied in the study for…
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Architecture Museum
Site: Azenhas do Mar – a topographically rich reality, full of sounds and odors. A place that reveals the physical and metaphysical presence of \”materials\”.
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i+a
This studio will investigate the boundaries between physical architecture and information architecture. It will explore the possibilities designing physical and virtual spaces in conjunction with…
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Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building
Public buildings are rarely without controversy. Their physical presence is bound to raise questions about their very nature, be it by the community they serve…
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Coffee, Cake, CAD/CAM: Re-inventing the Urban Diner
Diner:\”A small, usually inexpensive restaurant with a long counter and booths and housed in a building designed to resemble a dining car.\” The American Heritage.
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Exploring Methodologies
During the sixties, methodology was a fundamental aspect of architectural education. Everything gravitated around method, which meant that architects were explicit about how their buildings…
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Symmetrical Performance
The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
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Meuble – Immeuble: Furniture – Architecture
Introduction:The studio\’s task is to design and build an item of transformable furniture to suit an itinerant user and to fit into a variety of…
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Architecture for Politics? A New Swiss Embassy in Washington DC
Switzerland plans to establish a new embassy in Washington D.C. Essentially, the project continues the tradition of a diplomatic mission of a sovereign state within…