Courses
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Communes (another portrait of America)
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
“Stomp the devil!” Sisters and Brothers began whirling in place. the group cried“Shake! Shake! Shake ! Christ is with you! ” (Dan Graham on…
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Rethinking Haussmann: The Function of a 21st Century Multi-Story Residential Building
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
As citizens, we can blame developers of building housing for maximum profit and our governments for investing too little on building affordable housing. But is…
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reCYCLO: Architectures of Waste
Human beings have traditionally built enclosures from close-to-hand materials: tents from animal hides in the desert, log cabins in forests, stone huts in rocky areas,…
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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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Cross Rhythm (New House in New Orleans)
We can find many beautiful residential typologies in New Orleans, like the creole townhouse, shotgun house, and double-gallery house, to name a few. As each…
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House of Our Time [M1]
We live in a time in which previously-social activities such as teaching, learning, and working have been confined to the privacy of the home. This…
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Miami Remix
Elizabeth Whittaker, Corey Zehngebot
Miami Remix will expand on emerging housing typologies as part of a larger urban design agenda as we take on Miami’s most urgent crises: equitable…
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Forever Young: How design must anticipate human longevity
Recent advances in healthcare have led to prospects of dramatic increase in life span, only a few medical breakthroughs away. This has resulted in a…
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The Function of Architecture in the 21st Century University
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused on the role of architecture in the of 21st century learning environment. This fall…
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The Monument
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
"Monuments are human landmarks which men have created as symbols for their ideals, for their aims, and for their actions. They are intended to outlive…
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Architecture as a Tool to Improve Lives: Development of a Day Care Centre for Rohingya Children
For decades, construction in the context of international aid has predominantly followed a specific pattern: foreign organizations erect their structures, made of industrialized and…
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Housing as a Sustainable Common
Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, architects were the driving force of progress in developing housing typologies that would enable people to live more socially…
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From Within to Without [M1]
This studio will explore the notion of interiority in the public realm by reimagining an existing mid-sized commercial building. As e-commerce, shifting consumer habits, and…
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The Archipelago in the Archipelago. Medellin: A Tropical City
It’s been almost 40 years (1977) since Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas wrote: The city in the City, Berlin: a green archipelago. Its waves…
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Reflective Nostalgia: Alternative Futures for Shanghai’s Shikumen Heritage
Nostalgia tends to be taken dismissively or negatively in both architecture and general culture, as Charles Maier aptly states: “Nostalgia is to longing as kitsch…
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After Property [M1]
“Is love a synonym for abolition?” Saidiya Hartman How can we disentangle architecture from property? How can we use this moment of global lockdown and…
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The Third Space [M1]
This studio will explore community development, cultural complexity and displacement, place, and identity through the programming and design of a Third Space which will engage…
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Cabin on a Hill [M1]
Like Henry David Thoreau, we will build a cabin in the woods (except on a hillside) near something (a pond, for example) that allows one…
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$2,000 Home
What can $2,000 buy in today’s world?a gucci hand baga yohji yamamoto fall winter coata boston-dhaka-boston flighta college coursea used…
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Soft Spaces
Simon Frommenwiler, Simon Hartmann, Tilo Herlach
Architectural design has to deal increasingly with given and inflexible concepts describing separation of functions, perimeters and areas of control. The three-year HHF Option Studio…
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The Frugal Palazzo
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
The 26th incarnation of Architecture Without Content brings us to Seattle via Florence and New York. Arguably the second most important housing typology innovation on…
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New Formations for the Social Metropolis
This studio will explore housing architecture’s latent potential to transform the global project of urbanisation to one of productivity, inclusivity, hybridity and resilience. We…
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A Typology of Knowledges
This studio will reconsider the types and spaces of institutions that are dedicated to the classification and transmission of knowledge—schools of architecture, libraries, and museums—and…
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Spaces of Isolation – Bridges between home and health care [M1]
Modular units are an emerging and strategic development in triage within public health systems. The new reality brought about by the current pandemic exposed weak…
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Second Opportunities in Architecture [M1]
Iñaki Abalos, Renata Sentkiewicz
In its historical context, architecture has demonstrated an extensive capacity for the adaptation of typologies or forms to different sites, programs, and circumstances. In opposition…
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Hutong Metabolism, Beijing
Hutongs in Beijing, the traditional courtyard-and-alley system of urban dwelling that is the most essential part of the city, have recently been captured at…
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WINDOW WALL [M1]
Mauricio Pezo, Sofia von Ellrichshausen
Architecture is not that simple. The moment you enclose a space with solid walls and a roof you need to open it (for access, light…
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What’s a Difference?: Two Billboards for the Sunset Strip [M1]
Architecture’s role in the city is, at least in part, to form civic arrangements that suggest the possible parameters of political life. Traditionally this has…
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Designing for the DNA of a Place [M2]
As a planet, we have over the past two years been in a collective state of reckoning. This has been true when it comes to…
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Looseness: Indeterminate Architectures for Broadway Junction [M1]
In the late 1950’s and 1960’s, architects embraced uncertainty and indeterminacy, arguing for greater individual agency and freedom, open-endedness, impermanence, growth, and change. Speculative projects imagined new worlds where…
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Do-It-Anyway: Place, Tectonics, and Time [M1]
In this studio, students will design and fabricate a sleeping space at one-to-one scale in the period of seven weeks. Why? We are living…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Countryside
The Fall 2017 Rotterdam Studio is part of a long-term effort to document and speculate on radical changes shaping the countryside, which will culminate in…
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The Future Provincetown 1
Historical accretion vs total design and artisanal production vs technological innovation are two of the most productive dialectics to have accompanied modern architecture since…
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Domestic Orbits
Brief: In December 2018, the Mexican Supreme Court recognized the right of domestic workers to be affiliated to social security putting an end to…
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Cancel Architecture [M2]
This studio will be about the architectural power and paradox of negation, symbolically and spatially. Iconoclasm, involving both the desecration of images or sculptures and…
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BRICK: THICK/THIN
Brick: Thick/Thin aims to challenge perceived notions of brick and its use in architecture and suggest viable proof-of-concept alternatives that raise questions about surface,…
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Tokyo Study Abroad Studio: Transforming Omishima into a Beautiful Japanese Garden
Omishima is an island in Seto Inland Sea with the population of 6,000 people. Thirteen hamlets are scattered along the coast and the island is…
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