Courses
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Material World
“Who is it that the Earth belongs to?” Bangstad, Sindre, and Nilsen Torbjørn Tumyr. "Thoughts on the Planetary: An…
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Urban Design & Planning for Climate Transformation, Intense Migration, & Rapid Urban Growth
We face a vulnerable future due to the accelerated intensity of natural and humanitarian disasters. The resultant scale of unprecedented migration has…
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Extracanonical Buildings
analysis, "a breaking-up" or "an untying;" from ana– "up, throughout" and lysis "a loosening" [1] This project-based seminar is concerned with the formal analysis of…
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Investigating Normal: Assistive and Adaptive Design for Interdependent Futures
Part seminar in disability studies and part design laboratory, this course introduces students to design by, with, and for people with atypical bodies and minds.
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Philosophy of Technology
One hundred story buildings. Parametric design. Zero net energy. 3-D printing of exotic structures. What marvels technology brings us! We acknowledge that…
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Philosophy of Technology
Zero net energy. Parametric design. Wood skyscrapers. 3-D printing of exotic structures. What marvels technology brings us! We acknowledge that we live…
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The History of Heritage and the Heritage of History
This is a seminar course designed for design students who are interested in understanding the cultural background behind heritage theories, conservation practices, and related socio-cultural…
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Proximities / or Readings and Methods within Reflexive Formalism
“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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OPEN WORK [Module 1]
Half a century ago, architecture became open-ended. Buildings would change and grow, architects argued, not unlike cities. Architects embraced impermanence, promoted flexibility, timed obsolescence, and…
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Agropolitan Futures
This seminar examines the unsustainable relationship between urbanisation and agriculture. It will focus on Monsoon Asia where urbanisation rates are extreme and where most of…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, Alison and Peter Smithson, along with their friend and colleague Reyner Banham, announced their arrival with a call for “a new…
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Towards a Newer Brutalism
In the early 1950s, British architects Alison and Peter Smithson announced their arrival with a call for a “new brutalism”—a polemic sketched out over several…
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URBAN GRIDS-3: GRID PLANS versus BIG PROJECTS
The historic evolution of the city can be tied to “regular systems” that have allowed for rational forms of development, which can be understand as…
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Urban Grids-3:Grid Plan versus Big Project
Within a larger research scope of exploring open forms for city design, this seminar will focus on a clear discussion of two…
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Urban Grids-3:Grid Plan versus Big Project
Within a larger research scope of exploring open forms for city design, this seminar will focus on a clear discussion of two…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
The historic evolution of the city can be tied to “regular systems” that have allowed for rational forms of development, which can…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework:Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework: Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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Urban Grids: Open form for City Design-2
Framework:Within a larger research scope on “Revisiting the urban grids in the XXI century”, this seminar will focus on the investigation…
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Book Project Number Zero
Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Thomas Kelley
1. Architecture is inseparable from bookmaking. Ever since Sebastiano Serlio discovered the potentials of the printing press, no cultural project in the field of architecture…
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Philosophy of Technology: From Marx and Heidegger to AI, Genome Editing, and Geoengineering (HKS)
Technology shapes how power is exercised in society, and thereby also changes how the present changes into the future. Technological innovation is all around us,…
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Potential Architecture
The work of the architect, the urban designer and designers at large is conditioned by a number of factors that delimit and…
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Appearance
This seminar will focus on architecture’s appearance, how architecture is grasped by its public. We will explore the sources, significances, and receptions of our work’s…
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Appearance
This seminar will focus on architecture’s appearance, on how architecture is rendered both legible and actionable to its audience. The many labels applied to architecture’s…
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Appearance
This seminar will focus on architecture’s appearance, on how architecture is rendered both legible and actionable to its audience. The many labels applied to architecture’s…
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Institutions & Impact: Mental Health – Could Hybrid Institutions have more impact?
The world is rapidly changing around us, and to many, conventional institutions – from libraries to museums and from healthcare to schools – are failing.
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An…
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The Aperture Analyzed: The Form and Space of Openings
This seminar will focus on an essential component of architecture, the aperture, which has broad implications for our understanding of space. An…
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Machine Learning and the Image of the City
This project-based seminar explores the potential for machine learning to enhance our creative process as we re-imagine the image of the contemporary…
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Homes on Fields
"How can one understand the towns without understanding the countryside, money without barter, the varieties of poverty without the varieties of luxury,…
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African Landscape Architecture: Alternative Futures for the Field
A central aim of this seminar is to reveal the plurality of ways landscapes are shaped across the African continent and how they help mitigate…
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Design Teaching Lab (DTL)
This course teaches design teaching for those interested in pursuing parallel paths in design and education. Starting from an understanding of design as a culture…
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Contextual Capacities
Urban analysis, understanding of ‘context,’ and specificity of a place, have long been intrinsic to architectural and urban discourse and practice. Today, this discussion is…
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Redefining Urban Design
The field of urban design is undergoing a process of major transformation. Josep Lluís Sert’s initial definition as the space between planning and architecture, emphasizing…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar: World Without Work – A Rural Utopia?
This Course is for students in the Rotterdam Study Abroad Program. In the coming years, the countryside will be fundamentally altered by technology, migration and climate…
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Countryside Futurism: Rotterdam Study Abroad Seminar
The crisis of the city and the return of rural Utopias: Metropolitan centers have become ruralized. It is the militant spirit of the inner city…
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Architecture after neo-liberalism: Rotterdam Study Abroad
Rem Koolhaas’s text, Junkspace, describes architecture as a by-product of modernity, as its waste. Junkspace demontrates that the core value upon which architecture had been…
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London Study Abroad Seminar – London: Past, Present, and Emerging
London is a city with many people from different places defined by its openness (like no other Global city). Its people are united by mutual…
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London Study Abroad Seminar: Architecture after Neoliberalism
Half a century ago, it was still possible to believe that architecture was made for the greater good of all. This conviction became eroded by…
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Architecture as an Urban Issue: Challenges & Inventions in the Practice in Tokyo
This Course is for students in the Toyko Study Abroad Program. Tokyo today is in a dilemma of urbanism. As a post-growth phenomenon, abandoned houses…
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Architecture as an Urban Issue: Challenges & Inventions in the Practice in Tokyo
Tokyo today is in a dilemma of urbanism. As a post-growth phenomenon, abandoned houses are increasing in number, especially in the old residential-commercial mix belt…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts: Origins and Ends
Our aim is to address the general rupture caused by the rise of modernity—that is, by the social, economic, technological, and ideological transformations accompanying the…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions
This course provides an introduction to the critical histories and theories of urban intervention and formation, and to the disciplinary practices of urban planning and…
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Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions
This course provides an introduction to the critical histories and theories of urban intervention and formation, and to the disciplinary practices of urban planning and…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing…
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Buildings, Texts, and Contexts II
Any account of architecture’s history over the course of the 18th and 19th centuries is faced with the challenge of addressing…
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