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privately owned, publicly accessible: negotiating with the academic prestige
_FACTSColumbia University is both a leading academic institution of the world and one of the most constrained for space. At 326 square feet per student,…
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Kanchogai Street
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.Kancyogai Street, Towada-shi, AomoriThemeThe studio will focus on a town in the south east…
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Desert Islands
First, it is true that from the deserted island it is not creation but re-creation, not the beginning, but a re-beginning that takes place. The…
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Inventing Architecture
I n G e n e r a lOur goal is to work with an idea. What is a project about? What is the idea…
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FORMAGRAPHICS
For centuries used as a fundamental form of geometric rationality, and perhaps now used as a reaction to the various types of topological / fluid…
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Light Monumentality
How can we define the concept of monumentality in contemporary architectural terms? Who or to what power structure(s) does the condition of monumentality belong? How…
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Pursuing Figuration: Questions of Process, Structure, Scale and Enclosure
In a story, the narrative is captured in the telling; it is the selective details and descriptive moments that evoke a tone or mood. The…
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Parametric Semiology – High Performance Architecture for Apple, Google and Facebook
Patrik Schumacher, Marc Fornes
Marc Fornes will also be involved in this studio. All problems of society are problems of communication. Especially within post-Fordist network society, total social productivity…
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Built Climates
The concept of \”Terroir\” (or \”Climates\” in Burgundy) is popular in France in the term of \”Produits du Terroir\”, which means wine, cheese or sausages…
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Meteorological Architecture
The building industry is one of the main culprits in global warming because the burning of fossil fuels to heat or cool dwellings is…
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Defining/Unraveling an Edge: An Exhibition Space and Cultural Center for the Arnold Arboretum
site:The edge condition between the Forest Hills T-stop and Harvard University\’s Arnold Arboretum.The Forest Hills T-stop shares an undeveloped boundary with the Arnold Arboretum. The…
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Architecture Museum
Site: Azenhas do Mar – a topographically rich reality, full of sounds and odors. A place that reveals the physical and metaphysical presence of \”materials\”.
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Sculpturecenter: Lic, New York. addition-connection
The studio\’s focus is the SculptureCenter, a non-profit cultural insitution whose mission is to champion contemporary sculpture in all of its forms. It supports experimentation…
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Baseball in the City
Project: Yankee StadiumThere has been little academic attention given to the design of stadiums. The lack of critical thinking is evidenced in the default formula…
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The Marfa Project
The brief for the Marfa Project will ask for the design of a guest house to the Chinati Foundation, at Marfa, Texas. In order to…
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Dance Space
This studio will be concerned with the design of a mobile and experimental dance theater for a site in Boston and another site in Stuttgart,…
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Encapsulated Vision: Relocating the Barnes Foundation Collection
With the design of a new building for the Barnes Foundation, this studio will explore the relations between the virtual and actual architectures of collecting…
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Rising Mass: Tall Cultivars For a Fast-Sprouting Type
Rising Mass: Tall Cultivars For a Fast-Sprouting TypeAs a Matter of Pure FormHalfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of…
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Mies Immersion
Mies ImmersionThe Performance ShedMies\’s work had an essence of formlessness, amorphousness, nothingness, perversion and anxiety behind a stealth shield of serenityRem KoolhaasI am, in fact,…
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Performative Wood: Integral Design Computation and Materialization
Today, thanks in part to the new theories of self-organization that have revealed the potential complexity of behaviour of even the humbler forms of matter-energy,…
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Evolutionary Infrastructure – the new mega form
Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi
Biased toward expediting movement and inherently resistant to supporting other forms of inhabitation, transportation infrastructure is an archaic monument to mono-functional use. With ever increasing…
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The Ornamental Space
“There are three kinds of space that must be regarded as primary: functional, ornamental, and symbolic. The basic architectural formal values do not extend beyond…
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Material Performance – Fibrous Tectonics
Advances in the conception of materiality and the technologies of materialization have always been a catalyst for design innovation in architecture. Today, technological advancements across…
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21st Century Architecture of Africa and the Diaspora
In the last 500 years, Europe and the West saw dramatic shifts in the nature and shape of their civilisations, from the Renaissance to the…
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The Function of Education: The 21st Century School
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
The studio will explore the function of education in the context of an academy in East Palo Alto, located in the nexus of the high…
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Superficial Chaos and Subterranean Transparency: An Olympic Commuter in LA Castellana
Among cities, the scale of Madrid traffic problems is suffocating. In the opinion of experts, in order to confront, or at least to ameliorate them,…
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i+a
This studio will investigate the boundaries between physical architecture and information architecture. It will explore the possibilities designing physical and virtual spaces in conjunction with…
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Open Figures: The Contouring of Architecture
OPEN FIGURES: THE CONTOURING OF ARCHITECTUREIncreasingly, contemporary architecture is faced with demands to produce buildings that evince both an immanent flexibility (read: multiplicity) and a…
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Automotive Design as a Laboratory for Disciplinary Dynamics
It may be a clichi to notice that the disciplinary boundaries of architecture have been loosened by advances in information technology, but it is not…
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To and From Asia with Love
An Invitation to an Exotic Voyage To and From Asia with LoveArchitecture for a CityA vibrant global city called homeA home, a place where one…
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Migrating Coastlines: Emergent TranFORMations for Dubai, U.A.E.
Emergent TransFORMationsToday\’s emergent digital techniques allow us to deal with the full complexity of material systems, by offering the tools to create effects that exceed…
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Reticulated Form: United States Air Force Academy
RETICULATED FORM:UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY Today an architect must operate as a force of organization, a fulcrum from which new questions are asked and…
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Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in Bucharest
Reticulated Form II: Airport Terminus in BucharestThis research and design studio is the second in a series that focuses on parametric explorations of reticulation: division,…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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Forward into the (Deep) Past
Back to the Future: The Harvard Kalahari Project RevisitedThe Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is our laboratory this semester. We will reject contemporary theories of…
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Unfinished Work
Last studio, students addressed the question of knowledge space, and how such spaces facilitate the generation and dissemination of information. The interest of the studio…
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La Strada Novissima
CONTINUOUS CITY VS. DISCONTINUOUS CITY The Continuous City, characterized by clearly delineated urban spaces of streets, squares, and boulevards, was a dominant concept of…
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Material Performance: Composite Morphology and Fibrous Tectonics
A new understanding of the material in architecture is beginning to arise. No longer are we bound to conceive of the digital realm as separated…
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Imprecise Tropics
The tropic is precise in its definition only when referred to it as latitude. It is imprecise in its architecture, in its spatial condition and…
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Expansion and Renovation of the Cleveland Museum of Art
The Cleveland Museum of Art has recently announced plans for a major architectural initiative of renovation and expansion. A Facilities Master Plan, developed in 1999…
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Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building
Public buildings are rarely without controversy. Their physical presence is bound to raise questions about their very nature, be it by the community they serve…
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Disassembly Required: Constructing the Unwanted Building
The aim of the studio will be to develop new methods of design and construction adapted to the specific needs of the Ecuadorian Rain Forest,…
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Berlin: The Museum Island and Beyond
Berlin: The Museum Island and BeyondAn architectural vision for the extension of the Museum IslandA new gallery for the Old MastersBerlin\’s Museum Island is the…
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SELF-SIMILAR: Treasure Island Performing Arts Center
This studio will explore ideas of self-similarity and transitive relationships among seam, surface and volume as a means to generate architectural systems that span across…
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Individual/Serial: A New Architecture for NYC Parks
How does one create a new architecture for New York City\’s public parks? There are over 1,700 parks located on over 27,000 acres of parkland…
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El Rejoneo Bull Fighting On Horseback
The schedule for this course is variable. Please select this studio carefully.El Rejoneo (The bull fight): Taking a Stance on Local CulturesShould local traditions maintain…
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UNAM de CENTRAL LIBRARY
UNAM deCENTRAL LIBRARY _Integrated StudioSynopsis: This architecture design studio will use The National Autonomous University of Mexico\’s (UNAM\’s) campus in Mexico City as a site…
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Detournement
D\’tournement1. PresentationThe colonization of the Chilean desert, located between the 20th and 30th southern parallels, is historically connected with mining, shepherding communities and exchange dynamics…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Dominant types and the idea of the City: Housing Beijing
This studio works typologically. It recognizes the city as a repository of architectural knowledge and potential. The city here is understood through its persistent architectures,…
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