Students experience “Extreme Urbanism” first-hand on studio trip to Mumbai
The Spring 2018 option studio “Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid Housing Typologies, Elphinstone State”…
Topic Housing
The ongoing conversation about housing speculates on design’s capacity to address a range of disparate agendas and priorities. Investigations imagine housing as a central agent of change, responding to international, generational, cultural, demographic, psychological, and environmental issues in order to develop a more inclusive and sustainable engagement moving forward.
Work In Progress: Improving informal settlements in Manila
Yinan Liu (MLA ’19), Aime Vailes-Macarie (MArch ’19) and Julio Torres Santana…
Work In Progress: Alex Yuen’s $2,000 Home
Alex Yuen (MAUD '18) describes his final project for the option studio “$2,000…
The Future of the American City
The Future of the American City project is an urban study initiative aimed at helping…
Urban Villa (Contemporary Triple Decker)
by Claire Djang (MArch ’19), Alexandru Vilcu (MArch ’19), and Andrew Bako (MArch ’19)…
Catalog of Parts
by Yuyanguang Mou (MArch '17) The ambiguity of tropical cities sometimes could be reflected through…
Extreme Urbanism V: Exploring Hybrid Housing Typologies, Elphinstone Estate, Mumbai
Rahul Mehrotra
This studio will focus on questions of housing in the city of Mumbai. Exponential real…
The Chinese Block: Searching for A New Spatial Construct
by Liang Wang (MAUD '17) — Recipient of 2017 Urban Planning and Design Thesis Prize in Urban…
Joint Center for Housing Studies releases 2017 State of the Nation’s Housing
Growing Demand and Tight Supply are Lifting Home Prices and Rents, Fueling Concerns about Housing Affordability…