Courses
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The Language of Sustainability
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.The language of sustainabilityWe will continue our practical research within the new paradigm of sustainable architecture.
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Convergence: The Museum Artistically Reconsidered
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.Objective:This option studio will explore/ investigate the dialogue between physical and digital models in the…
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Your Space
Virtually all of what we do as humans takes place within the space of architecture. The design of space is the defining claim of the…
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White Napkins: A Collection of Short Theses on Radical Interiors
short th\’sis, n [AS. scort, scort, short; O.H.G. scurz, short, cut off; ON. skort, short piece of clothing. L thesis; Gr. thesis, a position, from…
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The Studio Studio
The architectural treatise and manifesto have disappeared. Today, we have architectural theory and criticism of architecture. But is it possible to call any contemporary building…
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Indebted Architecture
The project is to analyze and design buildings as if their forms correlate to the movement of thought. In order to do so, several existing…
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Portmanian Architecture
Carl Dworkin will be serving as Teaching Associate for this studio. Portmanian Architecture is architecture characterized by the tropes that constitute the famed atrium hotels…
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Architecture and Public Spaces over the Boston Artery
Elias Torres, Josep Acebillo Marin
The Boston Central Artery, which was opened in 1959, and is being currently demolished and substituted by a tunnel, provides an outstanding opportunity not only…
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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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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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Offset Ceilings
Offset CeilingsPreston Scott Cohen, Options Studio, Spring 406Despite dominating the visual field of architectural space and offering the greatest possibility of continuous reinvention, the ceiling…
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Studies on Ecolomy: Iceland/Dubai
Ecology – from Greek oikos: house + logi: study = the study of livingEconomy – from Greek oikos: house + nemein: to manage = the…
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Housing in Nicaragua – Radicalizing the Local: The Neighborhood as Political Unit
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.Studio Overview1. Zones of ConflictThe changing of geo-political boundaries across continents and the unprecedented shifting of…
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Verticalism
This studio is an exploration of the possibilities that the T line, the MTA new subway line under construction beneath 2nd avenue, opens for implementing…
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Where’s Alice?
Where\’s Alice?\”Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you…if you\’re young at heart.\” – Carolyn LeighThe iPhone and Swiss Army knife are commercial…
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New Metabolism
Osaka, the second largest urban region in Japan, initiated several urban renewal projects in the last years. One concrete project currently in preparation is the…
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Architectural Reckoning
The task of designing an addition to a highly respected building requires bringing judgments to bear perhaps more explicitly than in the case of any…
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Ruins, Memory and the Imagination
This studio will navigate the turbulent waters where the currents of History and Architecture converge. While such merger has been a constant impulse in architecture’s…
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IN THE LAND OF ÑANDUTí: following the lines, threads, and figures of the river
This studio will have water as its most conspicuous element. Inside, around and over it, we would develop proposals for intervention in an area of…
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Chamamé: The intangible rhythms of the Guarani Region
This will be the second of three proposed Architecture Design Studios to study and develop architectural design proposals in an area of South America that…
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Territorio Guarani III
This is the third consecutive studio investigating architectural strategies and modes of intervention in the culturally and environmentally rich Territorio Guarani, the South American region…
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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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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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Touristic Development in the Istrian Peninsula, Puntizela, Croatia
Instructors: Prof. Jorge Silvetti Teaching Associate Ivan RupnikThis studio will explore the impact of contemporary large-scale tourism in Puntizela, a prime virgin location in the…
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Urban Hotel
Introduction This studio investigates architecture beginning with the architectural envelope as the intersection of activity and site, an experiential intensity between construction and context. We…
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Nanjing
This GSD studio will run in tandem with a studio to be conducted at Hong Kong University in cooperation with Atelier Zhanglei and Nanjing University.
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Near Future
NEAR FUTUREStudio Option 1315GSD — Spring 2008Lise Anne Couture with Christopher Johnson and Volkan AlkanogluSyllabusOver the last fifty years the city of Brasilia has been…
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MONOCOQUE // A HIGH-ALTITUDE ECO-LODGE
This course has an irregular schedule. Please see below.MONOCOQUE: INTRODUCTIONTechnology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and it finds most of its uses…
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The Language of Sustainability – Munich Studio
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.We will continue our practical research within the paradigm of sustainable architecture. Using scenarios in…
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Type and Topography
This studio is the third in a series that explores the mutual determinacy of architectural and urban form. The aim is to explore new models…
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Un-War Architecture
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Allen Sayegh
Since earliest times artists and designers have been major contributors to the Culture of War. War propaganda commissions, design of s uniforms, armor,…
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Real and Imaginary Variables II
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, this studio explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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Real and Imaginary Variables (Final): Global Arenas
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, we will explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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Blob Block Slab Mat Slat
Teased over the apparent lack of historical perspective in OMA’s proposal for the extension of the Dutch Parliament (1978), Rem Koolhaas quipped that the brief…
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Misapplied Mies Applied (Final): The Performance Shed (Cancelled)
“The Bauhaus has a certain idea, but this idea has nothing to do with politics. Look at your writing table, this shabby writing table. Do…
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Holdout Architecture (Case Study : Upper Manhattan)
Holdout ArchitectureCase Study: Upper ManhattanThis studio will investigate the architectural consequences of obstacles to the complete redevelopment of urban sites. Holdouts are buildings or parcels…
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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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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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The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture
The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture The Bone Studio will continue the exploration started last spring semester into the concept of cellular solids and…
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Studio Option
Almere; a city built from nothing, now stands as a victim of its own success; success based largely on unsustainable desire for low-density living in…
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Experiments in Tessellation: Airport Terminal
Experiments in Tessellation: The Airport TerminalAirport terminals are essentially \’sheds\’- large volumes of space, with long spans and no major subdivisions, to cater for the…
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The Al Qattara Oasis in Al Ain
The Al Qattara Oasis in Al Ain Instructors: Jorge Silvetti; Professor of ArchitectureFelipe Correa; Assistant Professor of Urban DesignFRAMEWORK:The oasis, as the primordial origin for…
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Foggy Architecture
The studio will explore the intersection of form and formlessness as an urban and architectural phenomenon. On the one hand, the authorless composite reality of…
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Material Systems/Structural Geometry: America¿s Cup, San Francisco
The proliferation of architectural design focused on building form defined by modulated systems suggests the importance of finding evermore sophisticated modes of translation between material…
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Real and Imaginary Variables
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged futility of parametric form-giving, this studio celebrates architecture’s critical return to form. Our…
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Geometry of Span and Flight
Robert Levit, Rodolphe el-Khoury
Formal themes: The evolution of digitally driven formal experiment has taken a turn away from its freewheeling origins in the first flush of digitally-derived…
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High-rise / High-density
Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates
We are interested in questions of housing in the city and, in this instance, in how an American typology – the high-rise multi-story apartment building…
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Boxes for America
This studio is the 13th incarnation of Architecture Without Content. Architecture Without Content started as research on the Big Box in 2010. The idea being…
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(Re) planned Obsolescence… Rethinking the Architecture of Waste
Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio Villoria
Despite the recent emergence of a number of novel industrial buildings, the role of the designer, and specifically the Architect, has been largely absent from…
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