Courses
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Architecture Without Content 15: Neon Palladian
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
In the last few incarnations of Architecture without content, two defining tracks emerged. On the one hand, we investigated the roots of an architecture…
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Iceberg Alley
Every year about 40,000 medium- to large-sized icebergs calve from the edges of Greenland glaciers. After slipping into the ocean, the bergs float in frosty…
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Resonance: A New Community Performance/Meeting Place for Princeton
The emphasis of this Options Studio is on the development of an architectural position and using that position as a lens through which to analyze…
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Lisbon Story – Architecture Between Atmosphere and Tectonics
The Option Studio will develop a project for Lisbon. In the heart of medieval city, in a plot of land in the historical center,…
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“The English and the Americans expect everyone to be well-dressed” or A Building for a Fashion House
Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein
“The English and the Americans expect everyone to be well-dressed.” Or A Building for a Fashion Label Something fantastic about architecture is…
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Making Omishima the Best Island to Live On In Japan: Toyko Study Abroad Studio Option
Omishima, in Imabari City, is an island with a population of about 6,400 located in the middle of the Seto Inland Sea. Thirteen hamlets are…
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Portmanian Architecture
Carl Dworkin will be serving as Teaching Associate for this studio. Portmanian Architecture is architecture characterized by the tropes that constitute the famed atrium hotels…
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Chamamé: The intangible rhythms of the Guarani Region
This will be the second of three proposed Architecture Design Studios to study and develop architectural design proposals in an area of South America that…
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Blob Block Slab Mat Slat
Teased over the apparent lack of historical perspective in OMA’s proposal for the extension of the Dutch Parliament (1978), Rem Koolhaas quipped that the brief…
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Boxes for America
This studio is the 13th incarnation of Architecture Without Content. Architecture Without Content started as research on the Big Box in 2010. The idea being…
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Work Environments 1: Campus and Event
This studio is the first out of three studios that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that take place globally in environments where…
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Re-Defining Urban Living
The studio will deal with contemporary urban conditions, exploring optimal ways to live in the city but also the meaning of overused terms such as…
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OBJECT STUDIO
Our objective will be to precisely define projects based on the simultaneous presence of three conditions: 1_ Place. Here, it is the city, at…
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Spartan Unwonted
I’ll have the “Spartan” Special rare, please with a side of straddle-ramp salad just a touch of Boudoir sauce and a…
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Third Natures: London Pleasure Gardens
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
Cristina Díaz Moreno & Efrén Garcia Grinda (The Consortium of Fantastic Ideas) The notion of the building as a Third Nature explores the possibility of…
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Study Abroad Option Studio: “Poor but Sexy”: Berlin, The New Communal
Frank Barkow, Arno Brandlhuber
Former Berlin Mayor Klaus “Wowi” Wowereit’s claim in 2004 that Berlin is “Arm aber Sexy”, poor but sexy, set the tone for a post-reunification milieu…
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The Function of Time: Cultural Complex
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused at exploring the architectural potentials of time and uncertainty in large cultural complexes to…
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Architects’ Club : Clerkwell : London
As London has the world’s highest number of international working graduates in the field of architecture, there is need for an independent* club where they…
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Alimentary Design
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
If you are what you eat, this studio will investigate how and what we eat can be used as a catalyst to reconsider architecture and…
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Socio-Environmental Responsive Design
Belinda Tato, Jose Luis Vallejo
This course considers the complexity of the human ecosystem and the interpenetration of natural and artificial elements that are embedded within it. People, nature, and…
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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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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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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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City of Artificial Extrusions
The studio will investigate the urban model of the detached city through the design of a mixed-use, high-rise tower situated on a property around an…
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Housing in Extreme Environments
The extreme climatic conditions of the North introduce a design paradox for architects. The fragile environmental conditions require incisive designs that respond to irregular loading…
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Architecture of Cultural Prosthetics: Tools for Communication and Expression in the Public Space
Cultural:[1] Of or relating to the ideas, customs, and social behavior of a society. [2] Of or relating to the arts and to intellectual achievements.
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The Forms of Transition
This studio aims to develop, define and demonstrate possible projects for a hyper local scale under the scope and conditions of the architecture of transition.
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Basel Study Abroad Studio Option: Achtung: die Landschaft
Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
In 1955 Max Frisch, Lucius Burckhardt und Markus Kutter published Achtung: Die Schweiz, a warning about the increasing sprawl throughout the Swiss landscape and a…
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Apres Ski: Eco Village Les Diablerets
In this studio, we will look at the other side of the “coin” of the rapid urbanization phenomena. As we discuss the need to strategize…
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“You Can’t Die in Disney World” A ZOO (as in chaos)
\” You Can\’t Die in Disney World \” A ZOO ( as in chaos ) A current visit to the Disciplinary Zoo of…
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Indebted Architecture
The project is to analyze and design buildings as if their forms correlate to the movement of thought. In order to do so, several existing…
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IN THE LAND OF ÑANDUTí: following the lines, threads, and figures of the river
This studio will have water as its most conspicuous element. Inside, around and over it, we would develop proposals for intervention in an area of…
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Real and Imaginary Variables (Final): Global Arenas
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, we will explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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High-rise / High-density
Jonathan Sergison, Stephen Bates
We are interested in questions of housing in the city and, in this instance, in how an American typology – the high-rise multi-story apartment building…
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Another nature
Currently, when considering the nature of architecture, isn’t it problematic to simply define it as an ‘artifact’ or ‘artificial environment’ that is conceived and constructed…
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Borrominations, or the Auratic Dome
Thousands of lives sharing their lack of reciprocity and involvement under a single roof: this seems to be the way in which public space functions…
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Thermodynamic Materialism Applied to Dense Urban Conglomerates, Two Chinese Case Studies
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler
This option studio will focus on the new wave of urbanization of medium scale cities in China characterized by large infrastructure expansion, interest in sustainable…
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Barcelona’s Grids: in Search of New Paradigms
FRAMEWORK. The construction of modern Barcelona can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies. This process spanning two centuries features…
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Los Angeles Study Abroad Studio: The Possibilities of the Wrong Scale
Los Angeles has for most of its life had a deeply ambivalent relationship with the more canonical vision, forms, and mechanisms of urbanism. While seen…
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Kyoto Studio II: Seasons and Architecture
This studio will explore architecture as a responsive entity to seasons in climate, economy, politics and socio-cultural landscape. Through the analysis of building paradigms and…
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Unfinished Work III
This third installation of ‘Unfinished Work’ will broaden the research and design interests developed in the last two studio sessions. In the first studio,…
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workplan
workspheres The office is no more. We work anywhere, anytime. We don’t have professions any longer. We don’t even think we work, it’s just…
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Alimentary Design
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
Alimentary is defined as of or relating nourishment or nutrition; furnishing sustenance or maintenance. Food is a fundamental requirement of human life and a universal…
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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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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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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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Green Card Conversations
Projects are born from conversation. In Latin, the verb ‘converse’, cumversare, has a double root: cum, with, and versare, spin. Spin with or spin together.
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Theatre and the City
The Abbey has been Ireland’s National Theatre since its foundation by WB Yeats and Lady Augusta Gregory in 1904. Originally associated with poets and writers,…
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Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option: Elements of Architecture
Instructors: Rem Koolhaas / Stephan Trüby / AMO Ambition: Following two semesters of work by GSD students on architectural elements – the door, the…