Courses
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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…
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Meydan: Designing the Surfaces of Public Space around Beyazit Square, Istanbul
Summary: The studio explores the architectural means by which a public space could be configured to support a variety of specific urban functions while encouraging…
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WHYCANTWEJUSTDANCE?? HUMANEORIGINSINNOCENTOBSESSIONSANDCHEAPSHOES
Why can’t we just dance? Humane Origins Innocent Obsessions And Cheap Shoes What is architecture’s role today in…
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The Studio Studio
The architectural treatise and manifesto have disappeared. Today, we have architectural theory and criticism of architecture. But is it possible to call any contemporary building…
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Ruins, Memory and the Imagination
This studio will navigate the turbulent waters where the currents of History and Architecture converge. While such merger has been a constant impulse in architecture’s…
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Real and Imaginary Variables II
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic indeterminacy and the alleged futility of form-giving, this studio explores architecture’s critical return to form. Our interest…
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Geometry of Span and Flight
Robert Levit, Rodolphe el-Khoury
Formal themes: The evolution of digitally driven formal experiment has taken a turn away from its freewheeling origins in the first flush of digitally-derived…
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Ecologics: Refiguring the Civic Ground
Christoph Reinhart and Matthew Waxman will collaborate on this studio. What is the role of architecture in urbanism and what is the role of…
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Basel Study Abroad Studio Option: The City and Energy, A typological study
Pierre de Meuron, Jacques Herzog
Contemporary discussion on energy and architecture is largely dictated by the condition of scarcity. We often hear that our cities and our buildings are responsible…
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On the Order of Objects: Mediating between Monuments, Museums, and Megaliths in the Historic Center of Istanbul
SUMMARY The studio is set in the area around the old Byzantine hippodrome in the historic center of Istanbul. Here an accumulation of buildings…
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Chicago Grid: In Search For New Paradigms
Chicago can be seen as a paradigm city for its rapid growth and transformation, its economic importance and its innovative contributions to the techniques of…
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Thermodynamic Madrid. A New Good Life
Iñaki Abalos, Matthias Schuler
This course explores new methods, tools, scales, and materials to address the renovation of historic centers outside both the radical preservationism of the protectionist theories…
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Kyoto Studio
Kyoto Studio proposes research at two different scales. The first is at the scale of object-creation. The second is observing how these micro-economies of traditional…
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Transforming Melnea Cass Boulevard: Architecture, Transport and Regeneration in Central Boston
People have growing awareness about how they want to organise the environments in which they live, work and trade. Users and owners of houses and…
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Fun Palace II
Cedric Price spent most of his career designing, promoting and building his most famous work known as The Fun Palace. Even though the project was…
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Re-use, Re-public, Re-presentation
Within the New Normal – defined as an era of deglobalisation, austerity and sobriety, this studio examines how architecture can be instrumental in defining a…
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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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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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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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Shapeshifter
Zoe Prillinger, Luke Ogrydziak
Contemporary architecture is in the middle of an extended shift from drawing to computation as the foundation of design practice. As such, issues of automatism…
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Reconsidering Architecture: Rotterdam Study Abroad Studio Option
In spite of 100 years of globalization, the range of architectural typologies and the common understanding of the elements of the discipline may have diminished.
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The Function of Time: The Contemporary Art Museum
Farshid Moussavi, Jonathan Scelsa
This is the second in a series of research based studios devoted to the spatial and temporal implications that contemporary art provokes for a museum…
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White Napkins: A Collection of Short Theses on Radical Interiors
short th\’sis, n [AS. scort, scort, short; O.H.G. scurz, short, cut off; ON. skort, short piece of clothing. L thesis; Gr. thesis, a position, from…