Courses
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Montreal is Back: It’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations
Renee Daoust, Aisling O’Carroll
Montreal Is Back: it’s time to say goodbye to Place des Nations Place des Nations 2017 – towards a new iconicity The heritage view…
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Miami Rise and Sink: Design for Urban Adaptation
This studio addresses contemporary conditions for ‘urban adaptation’ in an era of sea level rise, and forms a portion of the Office for Urbanization’s research…
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Neonatures
NeonaturesSkyscraper collectives, agglomerations, alignments, bundles, clusters, and twins; mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, waterfront and marina developments, luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Toni L. Griffin, Andrea Hansen
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia
Anita Berrizbeitia, Kelly Doran
Colonizing Last Frontiers: Energy Landscapes in the Chilean Patagonia is a studio that will explore the material and ecological processes and byproducts of the highly…
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Caen Island: Public Space
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Caen is a city of 100,000 inhabitants situated in Normandy, France. Partially reconstructed after World War II, today the city holds lofty architectural ambitions. The…
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The Barracks of Pion: Developing the edge of the Park of Versailles
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Versailles is often considered as the place of the invention of the classic city. Strikingly, the shapes of the city respond to those of the…
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Southampton Quay
Michel Desvigne, Inessa Hansch
Le Havre is a major European port located in Upper Normandy at the mouth of the Seine. The city was built at the entrance to…
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Landscape and Ecological Urbanism: Alternatives for Beijing City Northwest
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Jane Hutton
The Beijing Alternatives Studio Series OverviewBeijing, China is one of the fastest developing regions in the world and among the most challenging places for the…
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EXTREME URBANISM: Reimagining Mumbai’s Back Bay
The Studio will explore the condition of extreme urbanism in the form of social, cultural and economic disparities and how these manifest themselves in the…
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Negative Planning in Nanshahe, Haidian District, Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Stephen Ervin, Adrian Blackwell
According to Beijing Master Plan 2004-2020, the metropolitan region will evolve into a polycentric structure, with ‘two axes, two belts and multiple centers.’ The two…
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America’s Boutique City
Adriaan Geuze, Claire Agre, Rachel Laszlo Tait
With the rise of new economies and the influx of Millennials and Empty Nesters, it seems there is a new urban biotope. Some American cities…
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Frontier City
The early 21st century is defined by the information age, and characterized by a shift from traditional industries into a knowledge-based economy. This phenomenon forms…
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Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation (The Netherlands)
Climate Change, Water, Land Development, and Adaptation (the Netherlands)Embracing the motto, \”Water is Our Enemy, Water is Our Friend,\” the Netherlands Ministry of Transport, Public…
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Retrofitting the (post?) Industrial Metropolis: Housing and Economic Growth in the Mexico City Metropolitan Area and the Bajío Region
Mexico’s national authorities are rethinking their housing policy frameworks, so as to connect questions of housing supply and affordability to location as well as to…
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Craft, Politics, and the Production of Housing in Oaxaca, Mexico
Studio Overview: This is the 2nd studio sponsored by INFONAVIT, the federal agency responsible for the origination of home mortgages for workers across the…
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Housing in Merida Yucatan: the urban and the territorial
This is the 3rd studio sponsored by INFONAVIT, the National Workers Housing Institute of Mexico. As in previous years, this studio seeks to generate new…
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NEW WAYS:Diridon Station, San Jose, Silicon Valley Capital, CA
NEW WAYSDiridon Station, San Jose, Silicon Valley Capital, CA, USAIntoduction\”New ways\”, as an expression, refers in this case to various issues: First, it refers to…
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Landscape Disurbanism: Depolderization & Decentralization in the Dutch Delta Region
Pierre Bélanger, Nina-Marie Lister
Over seventy percent of the GDP in the Netherlands is produced below sea level. To uphold this submergent economy, the Netherlands must spend 2 billion…
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Medellin: Urban Porosity as Social Infrastructure: A Multidisciplinary Hub for Change
This course explores the space that the architect-urban designer has in the contemporary world, and his/her role as an agent of/for social transformation through design.
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Re-thinking “Urban Grids” in Hangzhou
The construction of modern Hangzhou can be seen as a laboratory of urban projects and planning strategies. Its recent development has occurred at unprecedented rates,…
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“Regular City” in Chongqing: Searching for Domesticated Superstructures
The Studio sets out to interpret urban evolution in Chongqing in order to draw conclusions for the hypothesis of central city development at the heart…
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Rethinking the Manhattan Grid: Score for Designing the Future
FRAMEWORK Manhattan’s development has been based on Commissioners’ Plan which has just celebrated its second centenary. The precision of layout, the judicious definition of…
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Obsolescence and Pathways to Redevelopment: The Shekou Industrial District in Shenzhen, China
A striking aspect of China’s recent modernization and urbanization has been a relatively high rate of obsolescence, variously pegged at around 30 years for many…
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A Campus for the 21st Century: The Purisima Alameda District of Monterrey
Felipe Correa, Carlos Garciavelez
This option studio will examine the role of the academic institution as a driver of an intermediate scale urban project. The studio will focus on…
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Oh, Jerusalem: Eternal Center / Generic Periphery
“Jerusalem …. focus of the struggle between the Abrahamic religions, the shrine for increasingly popular Christian, Jewish and Islamic fundamentalism, the strategic battlefield of clashing…
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An Academic Environment in Three Communities – Cambridge, Allston and Watertown
Prerequisites: GSD 1221 or equivalentCourse Description: With its recent purchases of land in Allston andWatertown, Harvard University has more than doubled its land ownership. Itsoptions…
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SUPERNATURAL URBANISM: Locating the Next American City in the Los Angeles River Basin
Richard Sommer and Mary Margaret Jones with George Hargreaves as Senior AdvisorSUPERNATURAL URBANISMIn the 1960\’s Rayner Banham suggested a new mode of urbanism in the…
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Landscape as Urbanism: Milwaukee, Tower Automotive Site
For many designers across a range of disciplines, landscape has recently emerged as a model for contemporary urbanism. This is particularly true in North American…
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A New Neighborhood for Charleston, SC
INSTRUCTOR:Alex Krieger, assisted by Klaus Mayer, Loeb FellowParticipation:The Charleston Studio is open to, indeed welcomes the participation of, students from each of the disciplines at…
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Centers for an Edge City: Transforming Tysons Corner, Virginia
One of the largest \”downtowns\” in America does not beare much resemblance to anyone\’s image of downtown, nor evoke any conventional notions of urbanity. Tysons…
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Beyond Paris: A New University Campus at Aubervilliers
The physical, political, and social boundary of Paris, unchanged for nearly 150 years and delineated today by the ring road- the \”Peripherique\” – has insured…
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Designing Non-Stop Transformation: Shenzhen Studio
FRAMEWORKThe Shenzhen Studio is addressing the question of how designers may cope with fast transforming urbanistic conditions happening in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), and…
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Revitalizing New Orleans’ Bienville Corridor
Prerequisites:GSD 1221 or equivalentThe Bienville Corridor is a part of New Orleans\’ historic Mid-City neighborhood. Located just north of the famed French Quarter (Vieux Carri),…
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Drawn to the Center . . . Living on the Edge
Like many American cities faced with declining populations and economic disinvestment in the post World War II years as the American suburbs began to grow,…
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Next Stop Wonderland: T.O.D. and transformation
Growing concerns about housing shortages, a desire to achieve equitable economic development throughout the region and a commitment to the protection of natural resources, led…
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Re-imagining Dudley
The Dudley Square business district was once the commercial and entertainment center of the Roxbury community. In the 1940\’s this area was the largest retailing…
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21/19…old places, new paradigms
Frequently planners and designers are called upon to re-think current uses and imagine future possibilities for places that are underutilized and facing obsolescence. The City…
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Rethinking Montreal: Sensorial Urbanism
Sensorial Urbanism In recent years, the human and social sciences, from anthropology to geography, have undergone a \’sensorial revolution\’ in which the \’senses\’ constitute…
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Neonatures
NeonaturesSkyscraper collectives, agglomerations, alignments, bundles, clusters, and twins; mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, waterfront and marina developments, luxury condominiums; airport hubs, corporate office enclaves, industrial…
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Detroit, Interrupted: Defining the New American Urban Geography
Andrea Hansen, Toni L. Griffin
In no other community in America has the current economic recession wreaked more dislocation than in Detroit. Over the last decade, Southeast Michigan has lost…
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Neokoolhisms
Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, mixed-use developments, high-rise housing developments, marinas and luxury condominiums; airport hubs, office enclaves, industrial parks, hotel complexes, conference centers, financial centers;…
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Between Geometry and Geography: Mexico City
Tenochtitlan/Mexico City Carlos Garciavelez will serve as Teaching Associate in Urban Design for this option studio. “I think, no injury to say the past…
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Design and Politics – Managing Risks and Vulnerabilities
Contemporary spatial design faces a political paradox. To address emerging environmental challenges and the risk of climate-related disasters, it must transcend political boundaries to operate…
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Extreme Urbanism III
Jose Mayoral Mortilla will serve as Teaching Associate for this studio. The South Asian city exemplifies contemporary challenges in planning, designing, and constructing the built…
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Extreme Urbanism IV: Looking at Hyper Density – Dongri, Mumbai
In recent years, housing has become an extremely scarce commodity in Mumbai. In 2007, Mumbai was the sixth most expensive city globally to rent an…
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The Hague, Binckhorst: “Revising the dump”
Course Description:The sizeable Binckhorst area in The Hague stretches out between the exit of the motorway and the city center. It is only connected to…
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Detroit
Over time, cities inhale and exhale. Detroit grew from a frontier trading post to an industrial metropolis, reaching its population peak of about 2 million…
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Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region.
Studio Title:Monterrey, a Mexican City and Landscape in Transformation: Three Rivers, One Region.Sponsor:Agencia Para La Planeacion Del Dessarrollo Urbano de Neuvo LeonMonterey, Nuevo Leon, MexicoMs.
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Dubai Studio
IntroductionTruly exceptional and spectacular urbanization has taken–is taken–place in the Emirate of Dubai, prompted by a confluence of three unique conditions. First, the oil-fueled economy…
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