Courses
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The Al Qattara Oasis in Al Ain
Instructors: Jorge Silvetti; Professor of ArchitectureFelipe Correa; Assistant Professor of Urban DesignFRAMEWORK:The oasis, as the primordial origin for water, has for centuries acted as a…
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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…
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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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Extreme Urbanisms II: Speculations and Alternative Futures for the Mumbai Metropolitan Region
Rahul Mehrotra, Gareth Doherty
The studio will engage with the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) as its site for enquiry, research, and design propositions. The pedagogical thrust of…
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Utopioids / The Generic Sublime IV
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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The Calumet Collaborations: Daniel Burnham Meets Andre Breton on the South Side of Chicago
Chicago, lake-sided and magnificently flat, gridded to the horizon, studied and troubled, is ever ready for reimagining. What better moment than the impending 119th anniversary…
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The Factory and the City: Rethinking the industrial spaces of the developmental city
The studio is premised upon two fundamental ambitions, the recuperation of an idea of the city as a project and the pursuit of alternative forms…
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The National Archives Area of Buenos Aires, Argentina
An important site southwest of downtown Buenos Aires will be open for development. It consists of 236.000 square meters in the neighborhood of Barracas, called…
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Re-inventing Apkujung, Seoul, South Korea
Introduction:The neighborhood of Apkujung displays a complex urban fabric interwoven with large residential buildings and commercial spaces. Situated in the affluent Kangnam District of Seoul,…
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Urban Form: Moscow – Luzhniki Studio
The Moscow Luzhniki Studio will attempt to address the need for new urban form (and a new urban logic) in the post-Soviet capital and to…
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Provoking a New Form of Urbanity: The Corvin Promenade, Budapest
Rodolfo Machado, Felipe Correa
Throughout the last decade and a half, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Hungary has pursued aggressively its participation in a free-market system, shifting…
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Beijing: The University Campus as an Operative Device to Reshape the Metropolis
ObjectivesIn the last thirty years, China and its long urban history, has been subject to a series of pressure systems that have aggressively altered the…
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Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental Catalunya
Lissome Urbanism: Rail Infrastructure as a Backbone for the Rethinking of Continental CatalunyaInstructors:Joan Busquets, Martin Bucksbaum Professor of Urban Planning and DesignFelipe Correa, Design Critic…
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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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Overurbanism
\”that the destiny of humanity depends upon the attainment of its highest type.\” Friedrich Nietzsche, \’The Will to Power\’Skyscraper collectives, tower agglomerations, bundles, clusters, and…
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The Flexible Leviathan: Reconsidering Scale and Fixity in the Contemporary Metropolis
Mexico City is one of the most dynamic and complex metropolitan areas in the world today. With over 20.1 million inhabitants, remarkable urban…
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Ostend, Belgium
This urban design studio concentrates on the redevelopment of the port area of Ostend which is situated on the last bank of the inland canal,…
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The Delhi Metro Rail
The city of Delhi has grown from a population of less than one million in 1947 to over 12 million today. Despite a master plan…
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Square One: Martyrs’ Square, Downtown Beirut, Lebanon
The studio will focus on the design of Martyrs\’ Square in downtown Beirut and on the surrounding urban and waterfront areas. It will tackle several…
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Intermodal Istanbul
Intermodal Istanbul:Exploring possible forms of intersection at Sirkeci Meydan(Square) between a public square, a ferry terminal, an archaeological site, and a tram and train stationSummary:…
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American Cities: The Struggle for Position and Identity
Course DescriptionThis studio will explore how cities position themselves for the future, building on their unique assets to create identity and working within the context…
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101 Urban Salvations
As an urban setting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, appears to have a lot going for it: two of the world\’s greatest universities, an extremely high density of…
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Urban Surplus. Maastricht
FRAMEWORKThe studio, uses the city of Maastricht (Netherlands) as a potentially rich site to explore the transformation processes of a paradigmatic mid size European capital…
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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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Verticalscapes/Chicago
What is a VERTICALSCAPE?: An hybrid entity which, due to inertia, we momentarily continue to call vertical construction or \”architecture\”. This vertical \”entity\” is an…
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Urban Grafting: New Dwelling Landscapes for the Extended City
The Option Studio welcomes students from Urban Planning, Urban Design, Architecture and Landscape backgrounds with at least two previous relevant design experiences. Its aim is…
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Havana, Cuba III: El Malecon
Prerequisites:Students will be expected to possess a high degree of design interest and capability. It is anticipated that the studio will call upon the following…
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New metropolitan entrance
Course descriptionIn the metropolitan city of Barcelona, the Gran Via is the great horizontal avenue running parallel to the coast, around which growth has been…
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Bringing Harvard Yards to the River
This studio deals with an immediate reality, that of simulating a process of improvement and transformation of the main university quads; at a point in…
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New Orleans: Redesigning a Fragile Edge
ABSTRACT1. City Emerging from the WaterThe City of New Orleans is located at 90 degrees West longitude, and 30 degrees North latitude, 30 miles north…
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Alternative Urban Pattern Prototypes: Looking at Pomona/Los Angeles
The complexity within the formation of urban patterns is always beyond any mere comprehension of the form itself. A case in point is metropolitan Los…
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MAKINAMEDINA: Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Geography and Event in the City of Fez
Harvard University – Graduate School of Design – Spring 2007 – GSD 1511 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-6:00 pmInstructors:Hashim Sarkis: [email protected] office hours: wed. 2:00-4:00 PMAziza…
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Burlington, Vermont: New Urban Design Possibilities for the Downtown Core
Burlington is Vermont\’s largest city. That said it is also the smallest U. S. city that is the largest in its state. It is routinely…
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Retooling: Thinkbelt Chicago
Once based on manufacturing and transportation, Chicago has shifted to become a contemporary city of services. In this transformation, much of the older manufacturing city\’s…
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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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who knows?
If the starting point for the design of multi-unit housing was personal and the art of architecture to create a quality experience was valued, what…
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Unanticipated Urbanity: Revisiting Las Vegas
Las Vegas isn\’t phony anything: it has its own resounding, relentless identity. And Vegas is arguably the most interesting American city of the moment, the…
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Architecture(s) of Geopolitical Transgression
Korea\’s Demilitarized Zone is the last major scar left from the Cold War conflicts between communism and capitalism that characterized much of the second half…
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Newry, Northern Ireland – Revealing History in Urban Reconstruction
BackgroundOn April 10, 1998, a historic peace deal was signed between the Nationalists and the Unionists in Northern Ireland, UK. As part of the deal,…
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Participatory Planning at Local Level, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
ParticipationThe Belo Horizonte studio is open primarily to urban planning students, but welcomes the participation of students from other disciplines: urban design, landscape architecture and…
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Belfast, Recast
Belfast, RecastTuesday 2:00 – 6:00Thursday2:00 – 6:00ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM: A POLITICS OF RECIPROCATIONThe primary function of urbanism is to characterize a given territory in ways…
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CAMOUFLAGE METROPOLE: Mourne and Cooley Ranges, Ireland
OVERVIEWSet within the dramatic environs of the Mourne and Cooley Mountains that inspired the mystical landscapes and folkloric creatures of the Chronicles of Narnia by…
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What’s in Store, Baltimore?
Central Baltimore (not to be confused with Downtown Baltimore), is an area at the geographic center of the city whose high residential and commercial vacancy,…
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Fueling the Vienna Prater
This studio – sponsored by the municipal government of Vienna – will develop programmatic and design ideas on the urban design and architectural scale for…
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Kyiv, Ukraine: The New Dnipro Edge: (Re)defining the City
This design studio is the first at the GSD to focus on Ukraine and its capital city, Kyiv. Like many of the former states of…
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Arequipa by the Sea: A New Town Project
Spring 07Prof. Rodolfo MachadoT.A. Sharif Kahatt Arequipa by the sea: a new town projectIntroduction:To situate the studio\’s pedagogic agenda (or to place in a wider…
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The Urban Roles of a Semi-Dry River: Chihuahua & Its Chuvuscar River
Humanity delights in and finds inspiration at waterfront settings, and often chooses to celebrate or express civic ambitions at water\’s edge. Imagine the Sydney Opera…
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Peri-urban Development in China: Alternatives for the Landscape of Southeast Beijing
Kongjian Yu, Mark Mulligan, Stephen Ervin, Peter Rowe
This planning and design studio will focus on alternative landscape/urban futures for the town of Taihu (Taihuzhen), located at the low-lying southeastern periphery of Beijing,…
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Lisbon: European Atlantic Capital
LISBON: EUROPEAN ATLANTIC CAPITALIntroductionThis Urban Design studio is sponsored by the Fundacao Luso-Americana (Luso-American Foundation) of Lisbon, and it has been kindly procured by Mr.
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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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