Courses
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The Unfolding Civic Surface: Auditoria as Terraform
This studio imagines a civic building as terraform, between object and landscape, a shaped container that owes as much to its terroir as to its…
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Fukuoka Project: Strategies for Urban Extroverts
The studio will develop a contemporary vision for a new urban center following the relocation of the University of Kyushu. Plans for the consolidation and…
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On Health, or: The Ecology of Living
Ben van Berkel, Christian Veddeler
Contemporary definitions of Health are complex and far-reaching. Health influences, informs and conditions an increasingly broad range of contemporary life. It has evolved as an…
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Communes (another portrait of America)
Kersten Geers, David Van Severen
“Stomp the devil!” Sisters and Brothers began whirling in place. the group cried“Shake! Shake! Shake ! Christ is with you! ” (Dan Graham on…
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The Function of Architecture in the 21st Century University
Farshid Moussavi, Ricardo Solar
The studio is one of a series at the GSD focused on the role of architecture in the of 21st century learning environment. This fall…
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The Archipelago in the Archipelago. Medellin: A Tropical City
It’s been almost 40 years (1977) since Oswald Mathias Ungers and Rem Koolhaas wrote: The city in the City, Berlin: a green archipelago. Its waves…
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Hutong Metabolism, Beijing
Hutongs in Beijing, the traditional courtyard-and-alley system of urban dwelling that is the most essential part of the city, have recently been captured at…
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BRICK: THICK/THIN
Brick: Thick/Thin aims to challenge perceived notions of brick and its use in architecture and suggest viable proof-of-concept alternatives that raise questions about surface,…
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Tokyo Study Abroad 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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Territorio Guarani III
This is the third consecutive studio investigating architectural strategies and modes of intervention in the culturally and environmentally rich Territorio Guarani, the South American region…
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Misapplied Mies Applied (Final): The Performance Shed (Cancelled)
“The Bauhaus has a certain idea, but this idea has nothing to do with politics. Look at your writing table, this shabby writing table. Do…
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(Re) planned Obsolescence… Rethinking the Architecture of Waste
Hanif Kara, Leire Asensio Villoria
Despite the recent emergence of a number of novel industrial buildings, the role of the designer, and specifically the Architect, has been largely absent from…
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Work Environments 2: Glass Works
This studio is the second of three sponsored by the furniture company Knoll that examines, through research and design, the disruptive transformations that occur globally…
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Center for the Performing Arts at the Cranbrook Educational Community
The studio problem will be the design of a performing arts center on the historic Cranbrook campus in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Eliel Saarinen lived on…
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Third Natures. London’s Typological Imagination
Cristina Diaz Moreno, Efren Garcia Grinda
The second reincarnation of Third Natures at the GSD is based on three premises that will determine the content and scope of the projects that…
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etceteras
Something like that, You know what I mean So on and so on Ad infinitum Such as So forth…
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Redesigning the Actor Network in Rural Areas around Tokyo
Momoyo Kaijima, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
This studio aims to propose instrumental space in the rural areas around Tokyo, intervening into an alternative actor network (Bruno Latour) that governs the area’s…
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Readymade Architecture
Readymade, defined by André Breton and Paul Éluard in 1938 is “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the…
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Rotterdam Studio Abroad: Smart Countrysides
The 2016 Spring Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio will be a collaborative effort with Niklas Maak and Sebastien Marot exploring new forms of research and engagement…
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Wood, Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial
Jane Hutton, Kiel Moe, Daniel Ibanez
Ironically, architects and landscape architects are their most vague in the act of specification. Designers have little idea of what specifying something as seemingly prosaic…
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Dualisms: A House, A Palace
The majority of our programs can be synthesized, whether public or private, in approximately 9 (±2) different types of rooms distinguished in terms of scale,…
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The Architectural Double in the Museum City
The studio will examine the notions of the Museum City and the Architectural Double through the design of a new free-standing building for the Museum…
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Alimentary Design: The Final Course
Shohei Shigematsu, Christine Cheng
This year, the Alimentary Design studio will address the more tacit and palpable relationship that we have to food by working closely with leading experts…
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Material Performance: Fibrous Tectonics & Architectural Morphology
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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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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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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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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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…