Courses
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Tibet Contemporary: Building in the Himalayas
It is in Tibet that we can rediscover the inextricable relationship between architecture and landscape, the coherence between human settlement and nature, the simultaneous existence…
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Dwelling / Garden / Being, Suzhou
“Poetically man dwells on this earth”, the phrase by Hölderlin inspired Heidegger to write an essay entitled “Building Dwelling Thinking”, in which he reveals how…
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THE AMERICAN HOME: Revisiting ‘Rural & Urban House Types’
Christoph Gantenbein, Emanuel Christ
“We have built for this world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of…
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Baizo House – Perception Description Representation
On October 8, 1980, New York band Talking Heads released Remain in Light, their fourth album. The album's final track, "The Overload", was written in…
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Habitat Kashgar
Habitat is arguably the most primitive and, at the same time, most futuristic subject for architecture. The word “habitat” provokes at once multiple architectural imaginations:…
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Dual-Use: The function of a 21st century urban residential block
The studio is concerned with politics that is latent in architecture- which is carried out through making aesthetic decisions regarding everyday spaces- as it can…
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Beauty Of Knowledge – American (ir)regularity
The studio Beauty Of Knowledge – American (ir)regularity is a follower to last year’s studio Places Of Knowledges, and previous year Form As Knowledge –…
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Type vs. Difference: The Function of a 21st-century Residential Block
The studio is concerned with the politics of architecture and its agency in everyday life. This semester, we will address the subject of housing in…
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Spatial Infrastructures
This semester we will be addressing the idea of the productive city through the design of a single building: an urban machine. Since the…
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Architecture for Statehood
If Washington, DC were to be granted statehood, what would the introduction of its new governing institutions and agencies do to the city and the…
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The Art Space
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
This semester’s studio will design a space for art by means of a reflection on the relation between architecture and art. Architecture doesn’t exist without…
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A Bank for Burbank and Other L.A. Stories
Something funny is happening in L.A. Everywhere, resolution is lowered not heightened. Joints are butted, not mitered. Gaps are shimmed, not sculpted. Finish is dulled,…
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The House: The Waken Desire
“An old house, a shadowy porch, tiles, a crumbling Arab decoration, a man sitting against the Wall, a deserted Street, a Mediterranean tree: this…
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Architecture at a Crossroads
In the early 20th century, Manhattan represented the culminating and most extraordinary form of interdependence between architecture and urban morphology. Its unprecedented density, confined to…
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Percent for Art: A New Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw
In the option studio, we design a new building for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw by re-using the structure of a large-scale shopping…
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Complete Houses, Designing Non-Fragmented Landscapes of Beds
In this Studio, we will take further the concept of “Complete Streets” (safe, accessible to all, multi-program, sustainable, and context conscious), to reimagine the relationship…
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Nexus of Ecology, Education, and Design – A new School of Design on an Island at Yangtze Estuary
This studio project touches upon two important areas relevant to our collective future— ecology and education. This is a future in which we must change…
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Adapting Miami – Housing on the Transect
Miami is on the front lines of climate change. Its famous beaches and waterfront condominiums are projected to suffer significantly with sea level rise in…
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Form As Knowledge – What Can a School of Architecture Be?
The studio “Form As Knowledge – What Can Be A School Of Architecture?“ is a follower to last year’s studio, “Places Of Knowledges”, that started…
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De/constructing Cultural Tourism – Ke Zhan (Traveler’s Rest Stop) Case Study
The studio will take on the topic of cultural tourism in the context of China’s westward expansion related to its Belt and Road project, as…
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The Unfolding Civic Surface: Auditoria as Terraform
This studio imagines a civic building as terraform, between object and landscape, a shaped container that owes as much to its terroir as to its…
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People in Motion
For ages, people have been in motion: Survival. Economical transactions. Religious expansions. Wars. Colorizations. Rural exodus. Slavery. Gold Rush. Great explorations. Grand tour. Tourism. Circulation…
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On Health II: Amsterdam Health Kitchen
Ben van Berkel, Christian Veddeler
The widespread emphasis on healthy living and the demand for creating environments, cities and buildings accordingly has aligned with the ongoing integration of technology into…
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Fukuoka Project: Strategies for Urban Extroverts
The studio will develop a contemporary vision for a new urban center following the relocation of the University of Kyushu. Plans for the consolidation and…
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Northern Light
There is an endemic problem surrounding the fate of 20th century iconic buildings. They were once masterpieces with progressive vision, but over the past five…
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Natural Monument
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen
It would be deceiving to claim a return to nature since there has never been a real departure from it. Buildings complete nature as…
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The Paradox of Hunger – Rural Mississippi
Mississippi has some of the richest soil in the country, with rivers such as the Mississippi, Pearl, Pascagoula, and many more flowing and supporting the…
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Parisian Knees
There is little doubt that density is reshaping our cities, at a furious pace and with vast implications for urban life. As far-reaching as these…
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An American Section
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
This is the second studio of American Architecture. Our aim is to investigate the simple (drawing) tools of architecture: plans, sections, details, and perspectives. These…
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Aemulatio
Aemulatio.The Renaissance period brings the idea of aemulatio, expressing the challenge to creatively imitate famous examples instead of inventing new themes. Imitation was the…
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The Primitive Hut
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
Consisting of a roof and its supports, the Primitive Hut is the essence of architecture, and has always been an obsession and a fixed topos…
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Laboratory School, Stacking, Pragmatism, …
This architecture studio will be composed of three distinct and interrelated parts in working toward a design project. 1. A Laboratory SchoolThis studio will…
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An American Perspective [M1]
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
This is the third studio of American Architecture. After studios contemplating the plan and the section respectively, this time we will focus on the perspective.
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Well-being: The function of a 21st century multi-story residential building
Over the past seventeen months, the Covid-19 pandemic has led to feelings of loneliness, anxiety, boredom, incarceration, and indolence for many living in cities around…
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On Health, or: The Ecology of Living
Ben van Berkel, Christian Veddeler
Contemporary definitions of Health are complex and far-reaching. Health influences, informs and conditions an increasingly broad range of contemporary life. It has evolved as an…
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Idiom, Identity, Id
Arguably, the best architecture today originates intuitively, from deeply felt impulses rather than from the preconceptions, habits and the rules that are always and necessarily…
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An American Plan
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
This is the first of a series of studios focusing on American Architecture. The research will happen sideways. Not through analysis of local phenomena,…
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Proximities / Room for a House
“Making comparisons is the only good method in a world in which things take on consistency in relation to others. A comparison may be implicit…
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Earth Curvature: Context as Material / How to Read Place
Students will craft their own architectural language, guided by personal ethics and an original vision towards a sustainable architecture that also strives to timelessly resonate…
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Forgotten Fort Kongestein
This studio will explore potential new attitudes toward historical preservation, transformation, and adaptive reuse. The location is Fort Kongestein on the Eastern Coast of Ghana,…
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Groundless
Disciplinary interests in architecture are both in flux and viewed by many as disengaged from the world’s pressing needs. This studio posits that this flux…
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Can Parkitecture Heal? A Green New Deal Superstudio [M1]
This studio proposes to translate and spatialize the core goals of the Green New Deal into a new park architecture for Great Smoky Mountains National…
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