Courses
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The American Brick in Arcadia
‘The architect is a bricklayer who has studied Latin.’ – Adolf Loos‘Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together.’ – Ludwig Mies van…
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Intuition and the Machine
This studio combines the experience of a multi-year design research agenda with the fresh outlook of a collaborative design experiment. The purpose of the experiment…
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Midtown, Midrise, Mid-door
The studio will consider three recent and significant shifts in the design of collective housing in London: the viability and desirability of working from home;…
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BRIDGE WHERE YOU ARE: The Anamorphic Double
Uniquely called upon to embody purpose and beauty, bridges tend to be judged (more than any civic construction save the tower) on their singular object…
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Small institutions
Roger Tudó Galí, Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Xavier Ros Majó
Inspired by Louis Kahn's passionate and enigmatic interest in institutions and their origins, the aim of this studio is to investigate the possibility of a…
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Fudo/Umwelt. Devising Transformative Environments in Japan
This studio is concerned with speculations (formal, material, social, cultural) on the future relations between architecture (design), people, and the city. The site of the…
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Temporary and Ephemeral Structures [M1]
In light of recent global turbulence generated by a series of crises – environmental, economic, political, social, and medical – architecture is once again challenged…
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Parkitecture at Pullman [M1]
The U.S. National Park Service (NPS) has struggled to tell the complex story of America and to reflect the country’s rich diversity. Despite recent progress…
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The Black New Deal [M1]
The Black New Deal Studio is a Design Justice course exploring the architecture made manifest as a result of privilege and power structures that define…
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Porches, Portals and Passageways [M2]
This studio will be the second in a series that explores the potential of a small scale municipal building to engage the urban and social…
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Cancel Architecture II [M2]
This studio continues the investigation of architectural consequences arising from the dismantlement of Confederate monuments presently under way in numerous cities across the United States.
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Underground [M2]
Instructors: Mira Henry and Matthew Au The studio will design two facades and a below level nightclub for an existing retail store along the western…
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LANDSCAPES OF THE VOID: URBAN PROJECTS ON RESIDUAL TOPOGRAPHIES.
Instructor: Danilo Martic I remember looking at buildings made of stone, and thinking, there has to be an interesting landscape somewhere out there because these stones…
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TAR CREEK REMADE
TAR CREEK REMADE: Environmental Legacy, Toxic Terrain and Re-Imagining the Future in the Tri-State Mining Area, Ottawa County, Oklahoma, USA. TAR CREEK REMADE will explore…
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Away…Offshore…Adrift… Shifting Landscapes, Unstable Futures
Nantucket, meaning "faraway land or island" or "sandy, sterile soil tempting no one” in Algonquin, is an island 30 miles off the southeastern coast of…
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SHADING SUNSET: Reimagining the Streets of Los Angeles for a Warmer Future
This studio reimagines the contemporary public realm of Los Angeles by reconceptualizing its streets as venues for social life in relation to sunlight. This work…
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SAO PAULO REACTION: TAMANDUATEÍ RIVER MOUTH
Cristiane Muniz, Fernando Viegas
The city of São Paulo grew dramatically during the 20th century. However, the transformation of the small village into the largest South American metropolis in…
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Xiamen Studio. Merging urban development and natural landscape.
Merging urban development and natural landscape: Searching for “spectacular or regular” projects? The Studio Option focuses on the capacity of large-scale projects to direct the…
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Building Respect on San Francisco’s Third Street
In the past decade (prior to the presence of the Coronavirus), San Francisco’s economy experienced its most substantial growth in nearly a century. Two factors…
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DIVIDING BRIDGES & BRIDGING DIVIDES. A studio on infrastructures and their consequences
Cities fail their citizens if they adapt too slowly. The pace of adaptation is, in part, dependent on the capacity of spatial practitioners to reimagine…
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FRINGE CITIES: The legacies and future of renewal in the small American city
Across the nation, small, post-industrial cities today occupy a critical boundary between our polarized metropolitan hubs and vast rural landscapes. These are the Fringe Cities.
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Quo Vadis, Addis? Manufacturing-led Urbanization in Ethiopia – Empower Design!
The studio ‘Quo Vadis, Addis?’ addresses the question of how to integrate existing manufacturing zones in the textile and garment sector within the socio-spatial fabric…
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Below and Beyond: Imagining the future of underground infrastructure at Harvard Square
This studio aims to propose a near-future scenario for the Brattle Tunnel, a piece of decommissioned train infrastructure located under Harvard Square. As the oldest…