Courses
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Wild Ways 2.0: A Fifth Ecology for Metropolitan Los Angeles
Playing off Reyner Banham’s classic Los Angeles, The Architecture of Four Ecologies, the studio will explore themes of connectivity, resilience and landscape infrastructure under the…
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The Park System as a Catalyst for Urban Regeneration
Two venerable American cities – Baltimore and Boston – are independently considering how their park systems, both products of the late 19th century urban park…
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Quito and the Elasticity of the Spanish American Block
Using the city of Quito as a laboratory, this studio examines the urban legacy, current decline, and future opportunities of the Spanish-American colonial grid. It…
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Type, City, Ecology: Hydro-types and Knowledge Environments for a New Township in India
The Harvard GSD project on Palava City is a two-year sponsored research and design project focused on the challenges posed by the construction of a…
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Zhengzhou: Designing Critical Nodes for the “Urban Grids”
The fast-growing process in the Metropolis is associated with the large expansion of buildings and infrastructure, but also to the radical transformation of previous urban…
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SAO PAULO REACTION: TAMANDUATEÍ RIVER MOUTH
Cristiane Muniz, Fernando Viegas
The city of São Paulo grew dramatically during the 20th century. However, the transformation of the small village into the largest South American metropolis in…
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Leveraging Boston’s Building Boom to Advance Equity
A transit-oriented development on Dorchester Bay is a case study in creating ties to institutions and diverse neighborhoods on the south side of the city. …
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Extreme Urbanism 9 – Imagining Housing as Urban Form
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai was the sixth most expensive city globally to rent an…
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Extreme Urbanism 6: Designing Sanitation Infrastructure
This studio examines the issue of sanitation infrastructure in Mumbai, with a special focus on community toilets in the city’s informal settlements. The site…
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Large Scale Projects to Create New Centralities in Shanghai. Potentials for the Regular City
The studio focuses on a study of capacity of big urbanistic projects to direct the growth and transformation of large metropolises. It takes the example…
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Osaka – World Expos as Transformative Engine: Potentials for the Regular City
This studio focuses on the capacity of big urbanistic projects to direct the growth and transformation of large metropolises. It takes the example of Osaka…
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Xiamen Studio. Merging urban development and natural landscape.
Merging urban development and natural landscape: Searching for “spectacular or regular” projects? The Studio Option focuses on the capacity of large-scale projects to direct the…
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Airport Urban Districts for a New Age
Rethinking airports in the context of environmental crisis challenges for exploring efficient intermodal transportation nodes as new frontier for developing the future. The right combination…
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Savannah: Rethinking the Multi-Scalar Capacity of the City Project
James Oglethorpe’s 1733 plan for the city of Savannah is well known for its strong capacity for creating a city in the countryside, but also…
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The Industrious City: Rethinking Urban Industry in the Digital Age
Markus Schaefer, Hiromi Hosoya
Cities have always been places where commerce and production, working and living, are physically and functionally integrated. Only with the rise of industry have zoning…
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New New Zealand Housing: Recasting the Good Life at Mid-Density
The studio is about housing and recasting ideas of the good life amidst contemporary challenges. It centers on the currently unfolding housing legislation in New…
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Envisioning the Rural Metropolis
With the United Nations estimating 250 million climate refugees by 2050, there are depopulating inner areas in Europe and the United States that, while often…
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A Moratorium on New Construction
“We need to stop constructing in order to start building.”— Menna Agha Back in March 2020, everything stopped. Or so it seemed. Worldwide, construction…
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Designing Atmospheres and Technologies for Social Interaction
The knowledge economy has become the main engine of economic prosperity in urban areas. High-tech talent and industry have moved back to many cities, raising…
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The Dam Studio: Climate Change Along the Mystic
Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges for cities. Extreme weather stresses infrastructures, nature, and the built environment. It impacts people, their health, safety,…
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Building Respect on San Francisco’s Third Street
In the past decade (prior to the presence of the Coronavirus), San Francisco’s economy experienced its most substantial growth in nearly a century. Two factors…
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Sao Paulo: the Rescaling of Rail Infrastructure and New Models of Domestic Life
This advanced option studio will examine how the rescaling and decking of inner city rail infrastructure can serve as a driver for new sites of…
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Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid Housing Typologies, Elphinstone Estate, Mumbai
This studio will focus on questions of housing in the city of Mumbai. Exponential real estate values coupled with a burgeoning population and lack of…
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Urban Disobedience: 99 Provocations to Disrupt Injustice in St. Louis
The legacy of discriminatory laws, urban disinvestment, the decline of the industrial economy, shifts to a knowledge-based economy, concentrated poverty, physical, social and political divides,…
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DIVIDING BRIDGES & BRIDGING DIVIDES. A studio on infrastructures and their consequences
Cities fail their citizens if they adapt too slowly. The pace of adaptation is, in part, dependent on the capacity of spatial practitioners to reimagine…
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Transversal Grounds: Engaging Infrastructure, Landscape and Heritage for Lima’s New Urban Commons
Sandra Barclay, Jean-Pierre Crousse
In developing countries, heritage sites in urban settings often collide with urban growth and economic expansion. Lima has more than 385 archeological sites within its…
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Airports and HST Stations as Nodes of Centrality for a New Age
Changes in territorial and urban mobilities play a vital role in addressing the challenges of environmental crisis. The studio will explore long-distance transportation modes as…
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Designing the Conditions: The Return of the Public Developer
The studio explores the role of design in emerging forms of public-sector housing development in the United States. Our testing ground is a former industrial…
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Future of Streets in Los Angeles
The Future of Streets studio in Los Angeles will investigate the impact of new mobility technologies on the built environment of LA, seeking solutions that…
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ROCKET CITY: Envisioning a Future for the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL
The US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is NASA’s official Visitor Information Center for the Marshall Space Flight Center and receives over 1…
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Patterned Justice: Design Languages for a Just Pittsburgh
Christopher Alexander’s seminal 1977 book “A Pattern Language” describes that people designing their environments rely on certain "languages” that allow them to articulate and communicate…
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After Amazon – What’s Next for LIC?
On February 14, 2019, New York City received an unexpected valentine from Amazon, announcing their withdrawal from a major new campus expansion project dubbed “HQ2.”…
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Agropolitan Mats, Rugs and Quilts
This studio will focus designing a suite of buildings, connective armatures and productive landscapes that can catalyse sustainable food regions in the fringes of one…
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City as Resource
”When you build a thing you cannot merely build that thing in isolation, but must repair the world around it, and within it, so that…
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Future Proof Neighborhoods: Old and New Housing Ideals
The search for new models for affordable housing in the world’s growing cities has never been more urgent. Good and affordable housing is needed to…
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LATIN AMERICA IN TRANSITION: Imagining Infrastructures for Climatic Migration
The world is facing a moment of growing climate and migratory uncertainty. The accelerated intensity of natural and humanitarian disasters is giving rise to new…
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PUBLIC FIGURE/PRIVATE GROUND: Redevelopment of the FBI Site in Washington, DC
In 1790, Washington, DC, was established as the seat of political power in the newly formed United States. The plan and building form within the…
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Designing the Conditions: Cooperative Housing in America
At the heart of how we conceive of housing in the United States lies a paradox: the goals of a house appreciating as an asset…
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The Future of Oil Boom Towns in Ecuadorian Amazonia
Geographers estimate that circa 80% of urbanization in Amazonia is peri-urban in nature. Since the urban frontier in the region is one of the fastest…
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Modulating Change
Mumbai’s urban identity has been in flux since its founding as a colonial port city. Its economy in the post-colonial phase of its history has…
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TAISHAN: Designing the Rural Cosmopolis in China
Elaine Kwong, David Rubin, Kathryn Firth
Cosmopolitanism and its vibrancy are commonly associated with urban life; rural life by contrast is often seen as static, disconnected and monocultural. China’s rapid urbanization…
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Neuralisms Shenzhen: Fictions of Type and Territory
Shenzhen is China’s city of the future, a manufacturing and product development hub unlike any in the world. It is a place where innovation in…
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Kuala Lumpur / Discovering Traces
Spela Videcnik, Rok Oman, David Rubin
The city is a landscape. The connective tissue that binds us all together is the space between buildings, and sometimes on top of them. It…
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FRINGE CITIES: The legacies and future of renewal in the small American city
Across the nation, small, post-industrial cities today occupy a critical boundary between our polarized metropolitan hubs and vast rural landscapes. These are the Fringe Cities.
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Quo Vadis, Addis? Manufacturing-led Urbanization in Ethiopia – Empower Design!
The studio ‘Quo Vadis, Addis?’ addresses the question of how to integrate existing manufacturing zones in the textile and garment sector within the socio-spatial fabric…
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Quo Vadis, Addis?
The design studio Quo Vadis, Addis? addresses the question of how to integrate manufacturing in the textile and garment sector within the socio-spatial fabric of…
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Re-thinking a Humanist Skyscraper City
As the birthplace of the modern Skyscraper, the city of Chicago holds a place in history as one of great architectural innovation. From the first…
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The High Line as Urban Spine
The vast majority of urban development is created without an appropriate conceptual urban framework. In dense urban centers, we find an emerging mixed use typology…
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Manila: Future Habitations
Rok Oman, David Rubin, Spela Videcnik
Manila’s extraordinary history—written, erased, and rewritten—has rendered a current condition that is one of extremes and great tensions. The city of 25 million is ripe…
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Between Earth and Sky: A Building for the HafenCity, Hamburg
The setting for this studio is the HafenCity in Hamburg, which is currently one of Europe’s most ambitious urban transformations. Over twenty years to date,…
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