Courses
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Leichtbau Studio
Pedagogic ObjectivesThe \’Leichtbau Studio\’ introduces students into a combination of architectural approach and engineering strategy. The aim not only is to develop conceptual methods, but…
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MAKINAMEDINA: Reconfiguring the Relationship Between Geography and Event in the City of Fez
A. Hashim Sarkis, Aziza Chaouni
Harvard University – Graduate School of Design – Spring 2007 – GSD 1511 Tuesdays and Thursdays 2:00-6:00 pmInstructors:Hashim Sarkis: hsarkis@gsd.harvard.edu office hours: wed. 2:00-4:00 PMAziza…
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Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard, MA
Site:Located on a rolling landscape within the White Oak tree canopy of Martha\’s Vineyard\’s Menemsha Hills, the site offers a sense of spatial complexity and…
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Before Motown – After Techno: Designing for the Detroit Musical Continuum
Detroit has attitude, energy and grit – all qualities that allowed it to create sounds that revolutionized the world of music. Its musical legacy and…
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Paffard Keatings-Clay: Mastery Through Innovation, Innovation Through Mastery
Issues/themesModernism: there is more meat on that bone.Working within the disciplineThe canon, challenging it, contributing to itExcellence requires StandardsExcellence vs. novelty as a core valueArchitecture…
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BOMBAY STUDIO: Urban Adjustments Negotiating the Kinetic and Static City
Location: The city of Bombay (now Mumbai) with over 12 million residents. India\’s financial center, with perhaps the world\’s most prolific film industry. 5 million…
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privately owned, publicly accessible: negotiating with the academic prestige
_FACTSColumbia University is both a leading academic institution of the world and one of the most constrained for space. At 326 square feet per student,…
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Dance Space
This studio will be concerned with the design of a mobile and experimental dance theater for a site in Boston and another site in Stuttgart,…
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Migrating Coastlines: Emergent TranFORMations for Dubai, U.A.E.
Emergent TransFORMationsToday\’s emergent digital techniques allow us to deal with the full complexity of material systems, by offering the tools to create effects that exceed…
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Individual/Serial: A New Architecture for NYC Parks
How does one create a new architecture for New York City\’s public parks? There are over 1,700 parks located on over 27,000 acres of parkland…
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LUNIT
MISSIONAs a solution to current economic and social concerns existing in the housing industry, (i.e. affordability, sustainability and individual customization), the LUNIT Project has been…
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The Search for a Modern Monumentality: Master Plan and Design for the New Paris Courthouse
The subject of this studio will be the master plan and design of the new Paris Courthouse at the center of the city. In this…
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Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, Istanbul
Steer a million people per day. Beyoglu, IstanbulThe studio will explore global scenarios for Istanbul and offer a concrete intervention to the specifities of a…
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Experiments with Blank Typologies: London Olympics, Lea Valley
Contemporary building technologies and the need for totally controlled environments have generated a growth in size and number of typologies that require an essentially \”blank\”…
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Everybody loves Frank
Everybody Loves FrankMack ScoginIf the traditional role of the iconoclast is to attack cherished beliefs and ridicule venerated institutions, why is it in today\’s world…
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Seoul Long Beach “investigation in materiality”
Project Title: Seoul Long Beach\”investigation in materiality\”Natural vs. Artificial materiality in the development of the Han River Edge Seoul, S. Korea\”I don\’t believe in one…
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Offset Ceilings
Offset CeilingsPreston Scott Cohen, Options Studio, Spring 406Despite dominating the visual field of architectural space and offering the greatest possibility of continuous reinvention, the ceiling…
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Urban Hotel
Introduction This studio investigates architecture beginning with the architectural envelope as the intersection of activity and site, an experiential intensity between construction and context. We…
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A Museum of Architecture and Design, Murcia, Spain
A private foundation and the local and regional governments of Murcia, Spain, are interested in developing a major cultural facility devoted to architecture and design.
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Museum of Maya Archaeology in Copan, Honduras
This studio will be concerned with the design of a new facility for the Museum of Copan Archaeology, located in the archaeological park of Copan,…
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TIDES
TIDESSancti-Petri, Cadiz, Spain. On the southern tip of the Iberian Peninsula, a multitude of cultures have settled. Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs have left their marks in…
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Grapes
Peter Ebner, Franziska Ullmann
Grapes hotel + wineryebner + ullmann, optionstudio peter ebner, spring 2006 A home from home – a wine hotel on the outskirts of ViennaWine hotel…
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Options: New York Docklands Museum and Cultural Center
Located on the East River adjacent to the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City, the site is a threshold site which negotiates the edge condition…
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Shadow Cities: Nomads + Nanomaterials
Interdisciplinary and collaborative, the SHADOW CITIES studio at the GSD explores the intersection of architecture, technology development and social action. More than 2 billion people…
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Museum of Contemporary Art in Portugal
Francisco Mateus, Manuel Mateus
Site:Guincho – the region between earth and sea – consists of a rough topography of cliffs, heavy stones and persistent wild vegetation. It is the…
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Repetition and Culture
Contemporary architecture is preoccupied with being interesting. What is interesting today can soon become tiresome. The character of cities has little to do with their…
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Cities in Crisis: Memory and Community in Architecture and Planning
There will be massive needs for restoration, redesign, and community planning. This will impact everything from affordable housing to reestablishment of basic infrastructure and transportation;…
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The Marfa Project
Matthias Sauerbruch, Louisa Hutton
The brief for the Marfa Project will ask for the design of a guest house to the Chinati Foundation, at Marfa, Texas. In order to…
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To and From Asia with Love
An Invitation to an Exotic Voyage To and From Asia with LoveArchitecture for a CityA vibrant global city called homeA home, a place where one…
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SELF-SIMILAR: Treasure Island Performing Arts Center
This studio will explore ideas of self-similarity and transitive relationships among seam, surface and volume as a means to generate architectural systems that span across…
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Harvard in Cyprus
The Harvard School of Public Health has established the Cyprus International Institute (CII) to conduct research, and offer instruction both to full time students and…
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Extending Modernism in the Monumental City: Washington’s Southwest Waterfront Development
The subject of this studio will be the design of a mixed- use urban waterfront development in an exceptional sector of the city of Washington…
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UK/NL A Building in Amsterdam Harbour
UK/NLA building in Amsterdam harbourTony Fretton- www.tonyfretton.co.ukThe site for the project is a small island in the, an area of water between the railway line…
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Notes from the Underground: Boston Disconnect
NOTES FROM THE UNDERGROUND: SUBWAY SUPERSTATIONThe studio will be based on the premise that the Boston subway system is dysfunctional and inadequate, but also critical…
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Touristic Development in the Istrian Peninsula, Puntizela, Croatia
Instructors: Prof. Jorge Silvetti Teaching Associate Ivan RupnikThis studio will explore the impact of contemporary large-scale tourism in Puntizela, a prime virgin location in the…
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The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture
The Bone Studio 2: Experimental Concrete Architecture The Bone Studio will continue the exploration started last spring semester into the concept of cellular solids and…
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Structured Ornament, Contextualizing Blank Typologies
The studio will explore ornament as an operative device to organize buildings and to integrate them within the urban realm. We will explore ornamentation as…
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Light/Materiality/Threshold: A Community Boathouse for Martha’s Vineyard
Site:Located on the west shore of Vineyard Haven Harbor, the community boathouse site negotiates the edge condition between land and water, including a rocky beach…
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The Chilean Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. The rigorous construction of a pleasant place
The most clarifying description about what architecture is supposed to do, was given by the Chilean architect Fernando Perez, in an essay entitled the Mirror…
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City of Knowledge
Approaching the \’City of Knowledge\’ along the Charles river you sense that you are passing into a place apart. The surreal spires, boldly shaped and…
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden Educational Center
Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky
This studio will explore architecture\’s role in support of a public institution. An institution\’s goals and ideals are manifest in a program that underlies how…
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A Bridge and a Pavilion in Bilbao
The studio will focus on the design of a pedestrian bridge and a pavilion in Bilbao, Spain. The pedestrian bridge crosses the Ria del Bilbao…
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Baseball in the City
Project: Yankee StadiumThere has been little academic attention given to the design of stadiums. The lack of critical thinking is evidenced in the default formula…
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Automotive Design as a Laboratory for Disciplinary Dynamics
It may be a clichi to notice that the disciplinary boundaries of architecture have been loosened by advances in information technology, but it is not…
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Berlin: The Museum Island and Beyond
Berlin: The Museum Island and BeyondAn architectural vision for the extension of the Museum IslandA new gallery for the Old MastersBerlin\’s Museum Island is the…
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Dublin Studio
Dublin Studio Karen McEvoy & Merritt BucholzIn collaboration with Matthias SchullerDublin StudioA CITY is a living organism, continually mutating, continually seeking equilibrium, continually challenged to…
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Funerary Complex
ScenarioA woman in her mid forties recently received a sizable inheritance which includes her family\’s funeral home business. Like many family owned and operated funeral…