Courses
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Carlos Garciavelez, Carles Muro, Michael Manfredi, Robert Pietrusko
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. This studio introduces critical concepts, strategies and technical…
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Elements of Urban Design
Felipe Correa, Anita Berrizbeitia, Stephen Gray, Clayton Strange, Robert Pietrusko, Michael Manfredi, Richard Sennett
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post professional programs in urban design. This studio introduces critical concepts, strategies and technical…
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Elements of Urban Design
Rahul Mehrotra, Stephen Gray, Dennis Pieprz, Linda Pollak, Yun Fu, Michael Manfredi
Elements of Urban Design is an advanced core studio for the post-professional Urban Design program. The studio introduces critical concepts, strategies, and technical skills associated…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Chuck Hoberman, Peter Stark, Jock Herron
The aim of the inaugural, two-semester Collaborative Design Engineering studio is to apply multi-disciplinary design thinking to a complex system that matters. Opaque, omnipresent, reflexive,…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Fawwaz Habbal, Andrew Witt, Jock Herron, Peter Stark
The first year MDE studio provides the students the opportunity to bridge the gaps between academic fields and practical, real-world stakeholders, and fosters a design…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Andrew Witt, Jock Herron, Peter Stark
The first year Collaborative Design Engineering Studio runs for two semesters, and this year will address the theme of “mobility”. The first semester focuses on…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Andrew Witt, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Jock Herron, Kwanyong Seo
The first-year “Collaborative Design Engineering” studio runs for two semesters, and this year will address the theme of “waste.” The first semester focuses on concrete…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Andrew Witt, Joanna Aizenberg, Elizabeth Christoforetti, Cesar Hidalgo
The first semester studio is a project-based introduction to a range of ideas, methods, and techniques essential for the design engineer. In the studio, students…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Elizabeth Christoforetti, Alexandros Haridis, Andrew Witt, Siqi Zhu
The first semester studio is a project-based introduction to a range of ideas, methods, and techniques essential for the design engineer. In the studio, students…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Elizabeth Christoforetti, Andrew Witt, James Weaver, Siqi Zhu
The first semester studio is a project-based introduction to a range of ideas, methods, and techniques essential for the design engineer. In the studio, students…
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Collaborative Design Engineering Studio I (with SEAS)
Elizabeth Christoforetti, James Weaver, Siqi Zhu, Andrew Witt
The first semester studio is a project-based introduction to a range of ideas, methods, and techniques essential for the design engineer. In the studio, students…
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Between Wilderness and Civilization: Monson, Maine
The town of Monson is the gateway to the Hundred-Mile Wilderness, the northernmost hundred miles of the Appalachian Trail which stretches from Springer Mountain in…
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An American Model
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
In the three previous studios, our aim was to investigate simple (drawing) tools of architecture – plan, section and perspective – in order to obliquely…
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New York New York
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
There is a famed anecdotal evidence that designing a tower is easier than designing a chair. The boastful comparison was rather meant to aggrandize architects’…
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Entropy, History, Time. Architectural Infrastructure for a Gravel Pit in Spain
The Entropy, History, Time Studio will investigate three concurrent processes of time in a unique setting where these contexts converge. The site, a gravel pit…
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UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA: Living Post-Work
Today, at an unprecedented rate, new technologies and global networks (underground, in space, in the cloud) are transforming the ways in which we understand and…
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Post-Shaker
Historic preservation breaks down into two categories. The first are projects that involve complete reconstruction and restoration with the goal to simulate the original historical…
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ONIONS
Can there be an architecture that provokes the innate generosity of the human spirit? We think the answer is yes, but only if it’s creator…
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Subjects, Forms and Performances of the Contemporary Hybrid
The OPENstudio Fall Term 2016 explores new ways of facing collective dwelling – in principle producing innovative modalities of public housing – to produce new…
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Lisbon Story – Architecture between Atmosphere and Tectonics
The Option Studio will develop a project for Lisbon. For over 500 years Portugal was recognized for discoveries due to their innovations in sailing techniques…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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