Courses
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Multiple Miamis
This interdisciplinary studio will take on questions of how design can address issues of inequity, race, affordability, and resilience in the context of the contemporary…
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,Tri,3,Tre,
This studio will be structured around the exploration of the liberating suspension of judgment found in an architecture born of ternary logic. A logic comprised…
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Model as Building – Building as Model
This studio explores the emergence of the phenomenon of Model as 'Building-Building as Model', whereby projects of varying size or purpose are designed and…
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After the Storm: Restructuring an Island Ecosystem
Hurricanes Irma and Maria left many islands throughout the Caribbean utterly devastated. These cataclysmic events caused by climate change deeply disrupted the lives of the…
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ROOT: Rediscovery of Jingdezhen Contemporary
Design Project: Blue and White Porcelain Museum Jingdezhen is known as the "Porcelain Capital" of the world because it has been producing pottery for…
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Parametric Semiology: The Design of Information-rich Environment
The societal function of urban and architectural design is the innovative ordering of social processes. This function depends on the communicative capacity of the designed…
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In the Details: The Space between God and the Devil
This studio is interested in developing articulated methods of assembly that allow for a dialogue to occur between scales, in both their conceptual logic and…
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Museum Island
This studio investigates ‘island’ and ‘archipelago’ organizations in architecture and their generative potential in urban design through designing a timber building for an Art Depot…
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Study Abroad Studio Option: Making London
LONDON: UNIVERSAL BUILDING CANADA WATER A Design Studio evolving through a series of chapters culminating in a final project presented in both London and Boston.
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Countryside II
The Spring 2018 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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$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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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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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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Tokyo Study Abroad Option 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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Robots In & Out of Buildings
New forms of mobility are currently being developed for the transport of people and goods. From autonomous container ships and trucks, to autonomous buses and…
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Kandor Architecture
Composition, collage, and montage of precedents, abstract patterns or forms that are not usually associated with architecture – ever since historicism and modernism liberated architects…
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?huh?
“A fundamental tenet of linguistic science is that the sound of a word* has a purely arbitrary connection to the word's* meaning. Thus, the sound…
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Counter-Monumentality: A Big, Vast Interior
Efren Garcia Grinda, Cristina Diaz Moreno
As a continuation of the previous work on Pleasure Gardens, this year the studio will carry out an investigation on the contemporary productive activities, forms…
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Moving Things Around, Exploring Rossi’s Small Scientific Theatre
Aldo Rossi’s project the Small Scientific Theatre from 1978 is taken as a starting point to reflect upon the relation between architecture and image, and…
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Work Environments 3: Space Work
This studio is the third of three sponsored by Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally in work environments.
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Urban Villa (Contemporary Triple Decker)
Triple Decker is a housing typology built mostly in the New England region during the late 19th and early 20th centuries by local developers. The…
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Zero Energy Residential High-Rise
As urbanization and internal migration to existing cities has been on the increase, residential high-rise typology became the norm in many countries. Although this typology…
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Material that Connects: A Campus Center in Chicago
The divide in the field of architecture between the socially focused and the formally explorative grows wider. Why are these two vital aspects of design…
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Forms of Energy: Appearance
Late in his career, architectural historian James Ackerman’s attention shifted to the role of magnificence in the work of Michelangelo and Palladio. Ackerman reflected on…
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Building Industries in African Water Cities
This studio will explore the city of Durban to examine the challenges and opportunities presented by the impacts of urbanization in the social, physical, and…
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Countryside: Rotterdam Study Abroad Option Studio
For almost a decade now, more than half of mankind lives in cities – a statistic that has triggered an exclusive focus on the urban,…
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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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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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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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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…