Courses
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Jakarta: Models of Collective Space for the Extended Metropolis
This advanced option studio will examine the role of new mass transit infrastructure as a driver for new models of collective space, in a context…
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Lagoa das Furnas: A Dynamic Approach to a Landscape Project
Joao Nunes, Joao Gomes da Silva
The Vulcan Lagoon (Açores, Portugal)- a dynamic approach to landscape project applied to the São Miguel Island, singling out the basins of the Furnas Lagoon…
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The Naked Eye Medusae & other stories
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘Seen floating in the water, (Cyana artica) exhibits a large circular disk, of a substance not unlike jelly, thick in the centre, and suddenly thinning…
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Open Space – East New York – Brooklyn
This studio focuses on the Brooklyn neighborhood of East New York, which is historically one of the poorest neighborhoods in New York City. East New…
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Metroport on the Rhine: Strasbourg-Kehl
The site of this studio, at the border between France and Germany, is an industrial port between Strasbourg and Kehl, on the river Rhine, a…
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SEXY BEAST: MKAD
HISTORY Throughout history, Moscow pursued a concentric growth strategy. The Kremlin has always been at the core of these concentric rings. New concentric…
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Agora MML : Reimaging La Merced Market as a New Landscape of Agricultural and Cultural Endeavors
Teaching Associate: Adriana Chávez Emergent conditions demand new paradigms in all fields. In today´s new world, old categories will not suffice: local vs. global, modern…
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Montreal is Back: It’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations
Renee Daoust, Aisling O’Carroll
Montreal Is Back: it’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations Place des Nations 2017 – towards a new iconicity The heritage view…
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The Barracks of Pion: Developing the edge of the Park of Versailles
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Versailles is often considered as the place of the invention of the classic city. Strikingly, the shapes of the city respond to those of the…
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America’s Boutique City
Adriaan Geuze, Claire Agre, Rachel Laszlo Tait
With the rise of new economies and the influx of Millennials and Empty Nesters, it seems there is a new urban biotope. Some American cities…
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Liminal Space: Transforming the Taylor Yard G2 Parcel
While the Los Angeles River may drift and turn before dispensing its waters into the Pacific Ocean, the sound of its rushing flows are now…
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The Endless Landscape – Observations on the River Hudson
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
‘We are still in Eden; the wall that shuts us out of the garden is our own ignorance and folly’ Thomas Cole, \”Essay on…
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LIFE-STYLED – CHINA-TOWN
David Mah, Leire Asensio Villoria
Adopting the 1-9-6-6 model (one central city, nine new cities, 60 new towns and 600 central villages), Shanghai’s 1999 ”One City, Nine Towns Development Plan…
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Post-suburb – Nashua NH – New Landscape Territories
The old mill buildings of northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire are striking both in their scale and number. An extended sequence of mills stretches…
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Airport Park Zurich – A New Park Typology
Martin Rein-Cano, Gareth Doherty
Encircled by the rapid growth of the adjacent towns, the Zurich airport, a major European gateway, plays a broader role in the expanding urban development…
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Envisioning Miami: Simulated Natures
Karen M’Closkey, Keith VanDerSys
This studio concentrates on new forms of media and their role in the identification and creation of patterns; in particular, we examine techniques that enable…
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The Ocean State
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin, Gullivar Shepard
Collaboration is the future of design research. Sites are no longer fixed points, but emerge out of the assembly of essential conditions, the confluence of…
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From the City to the Object: Terre des Hommes 2017 – Towards a New Identity
Renee Daoust, Real Lestage, Jane Hutton
2017 marks three important dates for the City of Montreal: ·the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation ·the 375th anniversary of the City…
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Caen Island: Public Space
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Caen is a city of 100,000 inhabitants situated in Normandy, France. Partially reconstructed after World War II, today the city holds lofty architectural ambitions. The…
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Negative Planning in Nanshahe, Haidian District, Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
According to Beijing Master Plan 2004-2020, the metropolitan region will evolve into a polycentric structure, with ‘two axes, two belts and multiple centers.’ The two…
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Los Angeles Study Abroad Studio: The Possibilities of the Wrong Scale
Los Angeles has for most of its life had a deeply ambivalent relationship with the more canonical vision, forms, and mechanisms of urbanism. While seen…
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A New [Landscape] Infrastructure for Los Angeles
Topics to be covered ‘Essayons!’ meaning ‘Let us try,’ (1) was the motto first used by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in…
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Parallel Motion: Walden Pond, Concord / Central Park, New York
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“New York is my Walden. I mean, you don\’t have to be in the middle of a forest, a countryside to be in nature”. Jonas…
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After La Villette
Why after? After, because the site is located in Paris, right behind the Park de la Villette. After, because we can no longer design…
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California Limnolarium (experiments in projective processes)
A limnolarium, for the purposes of this studio, is a place associated with the study, presentation and experience of inland water ecosystems. It is a…
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Macau: Cross-border Cities
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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Territorialism 2
Paola Vigano, Chiara Cavalieri
Key issues: contemporary territories, ecological rationality, life-cycles, embodied energy, inclusion Design operations: conceptualization and scenarios construction Place: Boston Metropolitan Region/Greater Boston I the…
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A Landscape of Security
This studio will explore the idea of the landscape as a means of security. Throughout history gardens or estates have been created as places to…
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Relational Urbanism: Taiwanism
Eduardo Rico Carranza, Enriqueta Llabres Valls
The official studio days are Tuesday and Thursday, but the instructors will be available on other days to meet individually with students at mutually agreeable…
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Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kelly Doran
Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia is a studio that will explore the material and ecological processes and byproducts of the highly…
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Green-Heart Urbanism in the Pearl River Delta: The Haizhu, Guangzhou Case
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
The site of this studio will be the 1200 ha. Wanmu Orchard, a key resource of the planned Haizhu Ecological District, situated in the centre…
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The Catalytic Landscape: Body, Culture, and the Visual Environment
Martha Schwartz, Andrea Hansen, Andrew Zientek
CATALYST, or its original Greek word CATALYSIS contains an ambiguity essential to the position of this studio. In chemistry, the word catalyst alludes to an…
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A Parallel Walden: A Landscape of Civil Disobedience
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
“… Air, water, wood: all are enhanced to produce hyperecology, a parallel Walden, a new rainforest. Landscape has become Junkspace, foliage as spoilage: trees are…
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London: From the Olympics to the Thames
Vogt Studio London will take as its site a strip of land, approximately .8 by 2.4 kilometers, located in the Lower Lea Valley. The Lea…
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Energy Landscapes 3.0
Philipp Oswalt, Theodor Deutinger
The civilization of mankind can be described on the basis of the development of energy systems. With the shift from hunters and gatherers to settlers,…
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Territorialism: Inside a New Form of Dispersed Megalopolis
Abstract Starting from a reflection on the infrastructural system (water and iron) in the Boston region, the approach of the studio is to…
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Common Frameworks: Rethinking the Developmental City
This studio works typologically. It approaches the problem of the city through the investigation and redefinition of its persistent architectures – its dominant types. Any…
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The Garden in the Machine: A Demonstration Landscape for Deere & Company
The primary foci of the studio will be: ·The potential of landscape maintenance, its processes, and machinery to inspire potent and inventive program and…
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Gansevoort Peninsula: A 5-acre Unfinished Segment of Hudson River Park, NY, NY
Michael Van Valkenburgh, Rosetta S. Elkin
The tremendous expansion of parkland in New York City in the last 15 years has its closest parallel in Parks Commissioner Robert Moses’ building campaign…
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Retooling Gabon
Introduction This studio is dedicated to reimagining the future of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, in the wake of recent developments in the country. Gabon holds…
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Peri-urban Development Alternatives for Southwest Beijing:Qinglonghu zhen
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
Overview. Beijing, China is one of the fastest developing urban regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the study and practice…
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Rivercity Gothenburg
Gothenburg is a water city, but it no longer has any connection to the water. Once a bustling port and industrial corridor, Gothenburg\’s Gota Alv…
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Water Front New Haven
Henri Bava, Olivier Philippe, Michel Hossler
Drawing the urban extension of the city center of New Haven towards the industrial port, crossing rail tracks and the motorway to reconnect city and…
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Central Park Revisited
Eelco Hooftman, Bridget Baines
\”I\’m a city boy. In the big cities they\’ve set it up so you can go to a park and be in a miniature countryside,…
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Modernizing MIT: An innovative approach to site design and detail
Modernizing MIT is a site-based design studio exploring the relationship between modern landscape design and significant works of architecture located throughout the campus of MIT.
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Rosario Territorial Front
Juan Rois, Leire Asensio Villoria
This is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper.T.S. Eliot, \”The Hollow Men\” (1925)Latin-American cities, especially those of Indian Laws foundation,…
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Architectural Design V – IX: Urban Design Studio “Contested Waters, Mumbai”
Option studion in Zurich, ETH.