Courses
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Architectural Reckoning
The task of designing an addition to a highly respected building requires bringing judgments to bear perhaps more explicitly than in the case of any…
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Un-War Architecture
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Allen Sayegh
Since earliest times artists and designers have been major contributors to the Culture of War. War propaganda commissions, design of s uniforms, armor,…
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Real and Imaginary Variables
Halfway between the socially responsive discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged futility of parametric form-giving, this studio celebrates architecture’s critical return to form. Our…
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ARCHITECTURE 2.0: Pending Futures
By 2015, predictions are that the information on the internet will reach a zettabyte (in comparison, all the books in the present Library of Congress…
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Thinking about Home-for-All (Tokyo Study Abroad Studio)
This studio is not part of the option studio lottery. Enrollment is full. This is the studio associated with the Tokyo Study Abroad program.
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The School of the Year 2030 in Rio de Janeiro
In the context of the current efforts of Rio de Janeiro to reformulate and develop public policies for strategic urban development and renewal this studio…
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Thermodynamic somatisms/ Verticalscapes II
The Studio will seek to consolidate an advanced understanding of high‐rise construction in association with thermodynamics and to experiment with various somatic aspects of human…
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Retooling Gabon
Introduction This studio is dedicated to reimagining the future of Gabon’s capital, Libreville, in the wake of recent developments in the country. Gabon holds…
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A Line in the Andes: Rethinking Quito through its sub-surface
This option studio examines how the introduction of a new metro transit system can serve as the backbone for the development of more comprehensive urban…
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REDISCOVERING GLORiES
Our studio in Barcelona is an ‘atelier` which for us contains a program balancing between those existing in a professional office and those of a…
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Itinerant Architecture
The world we live in today is complex, afflicted with various risks and instabilities. This is particularly true for underserved communities, whose situations require, but…
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Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House
Landscape Wooden (Hill and Water) House+++A Natural Form of Architectural Narration and ConstructionIn ancient Chinese landscape painting, \”hill and water\” typology consists of \”hill and…
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End(eavors) Game
When the \”age of the world picture\” gave way to the \”first machine age,\” architecture went from being a book to being a machine, from…
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Light Monumentality
How can we define the concept of monumentality in contemporary architectural terms? Who or to what power structure(s) does the condition of monumentality belong? How…
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Evolutionary Infrastructure – the new mega form
Marion Weiss, Michael Manfredi
Biased toward expediting movement and inherently resistant to supporting other forms of inhabitation, transportation infrastructure is an archaic monument to mono-functional use. With ever increasing…
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Forward into the (Deep) Past
Back to the Future: The Harvard Kalahari Project RevisitedThe Kalahari Desert of southern Africa is our laboratory this semester. We will reject contemporary theories of…
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Dominant types and the idea of the City: Housing Beijing
This studio works typologically. It recognizes the city as a repository of architectural knowledge and potential. The city here is understood through its persistent architectures,…
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Urban Efficiency
The site, NYC will be utilized as the testing environment. In the next 40 years, the world\’s population is forecast to increase by 50% with…
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Istanbul: Between Contour and Silhouette
Summary: The studio explores how an architectural project could relate to the city through the manipulation of the ground line and the skyline. The practical…
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Paris Study Abroad Option Studio: Storyboard as Architecture Project
This course is offered as part of the Paris study abroadStoryboard as architecture projectThe city should give exceptional quality of life : a large range…
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The Function of Time: The Contemporary Art Museum
During the last two decades, a new type of art museum has arisen which promotes art without history, dedicated to contemporary issues. This has been…
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Your Space
Virtually all of what we do as humans takes place within the space of architecture. The design of space is the defining claim of the…
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New Metabolism
Osaka, the second largest urban region in Japan, initiated several urban renewal projects in the last years. One concrete project currently in preparation is the…
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Type and Topography
This studio is the third in a series that explores the mutual determinacy of architectural and urban form. The aim is to explore new models…
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Material Systems/Structural Geometry: America¿s Cup, San Francisco
The proliferation of architectural design focused on building form defined by modulated systems suggests the importance of finding evermore sophisticated modes of translation between material…
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Islands in Time
This studio is led by Ben van Berkel, Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor, and assisted by Instructor Imola Berczi. Please see the studio schedule below.\”I have…
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The Architecture of Interstitial Urbanism
Paul Nakazawa will serve as Co-Instructor, and Joao Paulo Meirelles de Faria is the Teaching Assistant.This option studio will seek to generate alternative design strategies…
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Center for Limnology: Divided Waters in Chicago
This studio is led by Jeanne Gang, Design Critic, and assisted by Instructor John Wolters. Please see the studio schedule below. The studio requires analyzing…
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Beyond Paris: The Palaiseau Campus at Paris Saclay
IntroductionResearch on strategies for new campuses in the Paris region continues in this third studio on the subject. The growth of metropolitan Paris beyond its…
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Architectural Design V – IX: Urban Design Studio “Contested Waters, Mumbai”
Option studion in Zurich, ETH.
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RioStudio
The Graduate School of Design vs. Business School Studio aims to combine the creative experimentation of the designers with the rigorous number crunching of the…
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Global Redesign Project 2. Resonance: Virtual and Real: Design of a Performing Arts Center
GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF A PERFORMANCE ART CENTER SYLLABUS GLOBAL REDESIGN PROJECT 2: RESONANCE: VIRTUAL AND REAL: DESIGN OF…
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Dense + Green
In the context of today\’s debates on sustainable approaches for high density cities, contemporary architectural practice increasingly seeks new possibilities for integrating green spaces in…
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Rising Mass 2
Halfway between today\’s dominant discourse of programmatic freedom and the alleged over-determination of pure form-making, this studio celebrate architecture\’s ongoing critical return to form. Our…
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FORMAGRAPHICS
For centuries used as a fundamental form of geometric rationality, and perhaps now used as a reaction to the various types of topological / fluid…
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Performative Wood: Integral Design Computation and Materialization
Today, thanks in part to the new theories of self-organization that have revealed the potential complexity of behaviour of even the humbler forms of matter-energy,…
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Geography of a Bridge: Reconfiguring Istanbul¿s Ataturk Kopru across the Golden Horn
The studio aims to unlock the architectural potential of an infrastructural element by reconfiguring its status between system and object. The site is the foot…
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London: A Particular Proposition
The Studio will look at London, a city where design ingenuity has been nurtured by the unpromising parameters of layered historic regulation, international trade and…
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Dense Structure- Stressed Structures: Institute for Innovation in Infrastructure, Madrid, Spain
The city of Madrid is undergoing today one of its most important urban and infrastructural challenges; the burying of the M-30 ring highway has recovered…
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Poseidon’s Temple: Vessels, Membranes, and Urban Archipelagos
This studio will investigate a Mid-American city as it transitions from post-industrial decline, towards a new, water-based urbanism. Can its architecture and remnant infrastructure be…
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Architecture, In Extremes: A Spa in Wadi Rum, Jordan
The project is a Spa Resort located in Wadi Rum, which is one of the most important natural history sites in Jordan. Wadi Rum is…
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The Function of Roofs: The Urban Mall
Farshid Moussavi, James Khamsi
Please note: Farshid Moussavi will not be present at all course meetings. James Khamsi, Teaching Associate, will run the course when Professor Moussavi is not…
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Convergence: The Museum Artistically Reconsidered
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.Objective:This option studio will explore/ investigate the dialogue between physical and digital models in the…
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Where’s Alice?
Where\’s Alice?\”Fairy tales can come true, it can happen to you…if you\’re young at heart.\” – Carolyn LeighThe iPhone and Swiss Army knife are commercial…
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The Language of Sustainability – Munich Studio
Louisa Hutton, Matthias Sauerbruch
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule.We will continue our practical research within the paradigm of sustainable architecture. Using scenarios in…
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Foggy Architecture
The studio will explore the intersection of form and formlessness as an urban and architectural phenomenon. On the one hand, the authorless composite reality of…
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Beyond Paris [suite]: a New Campus for the University of Paris South XI at Saclay
The future development of the Paris metropolitan region beyond the present political and physical boundary of the city continues to be a national priority, with…
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VERTICAL SCAPES. (Verticalism and the integration of disciplines)
Please note, this option studio will meet on an irregular schedule. (see below)The course will focus on solving the problems generated by the absence of…