Recommended Backgrounds for Option Studios
Not all students in all programs will possess the capabilities necessary to undertake certain projects that may be proposed by critics. This information should be taken into consideration when you rank your choices on the lottery ballot. Please note that appropriate background means that you are currently enrolled in a degree program in this discipline, or previously obtained a degree in this discipline. Failure to select studios that you are eligible for will result in you being randomly assigned in a studio in which you are eligible.
Below are the backgrounds necessary for Fall 2020 Option Studios:
| Studio | Title | Critic(s) | Appropriate Background |
| 1301 | ONIONS | Mack Scogin, Helen Han | |
| 1302 | Dual-Use: The Function of a 21st-Century Urban Residential Block | Farshid Moussavi | |
| 1303 | Spatial Infrastructures | Jeannette Kuo | |
| 1304 | Form As Knowledge – What Can Be A School Of Architecture? | Eric Lapierre | |
| 1305 | Aemulatio | Job Floris | |
| 1306 [M1] | An American Perspective | Kersten Geers, David Van Severen | |
| 1307 [M1] | Can Parkitecture Heal? A Green New Deal Superstudio | Jeanne Gang, Claire Cahan | |
| 1308 [M1] | House of Our Time | Toshiko Mori | |
| 1309 [M1] | After Property | Emanuel Admassu | |
| 1310 [M1] | Spaces of Isolation: Bridges between home and health care | Spela Videcnik, Rok Oman | |
| 1311 [M2] | Option Studio – TBD | Preston Scott Cohen | |
| 1312 [M2] | Option Studio – TBD | ||
| 1313 [M2] | AFTER THE PARTY – A New Open Fair | Simon Hartmann, Simon Frommenwiler, Tilo Herlach | |
| 1314 [M2] | A House for Almost Everything | Sharon Johnston-Lee | |
| 1315 [M2] | GROUNDSCRAPERS: ¿A new type for the in-between? | Camilo Restrepo Ochoa | |
| 1401 [M1] | Washington Common—Martin Luther King, Jr., Upended | Gary Hilderbrand | |
| 1402 [M2] | Washington Common: An Unmonumental Core for Our Capital City | Gary Hilderbrand | |
| 1403 | The “CANARY IN THE MINE:” Wildfires and rural communities in the Mediterranean hinterland | Silvia Benedito | |
| 1404 | The Right to Sewage: Mezquital Valley, Mexico City | Montserrat Bonvehi Rosich, Seth Denizen | |
| 1405 | Seeking Abundance – Designing Engagement and Experience for All | Sierra Bainbridge | |
| 1406 [M1] | In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment: landscape interventions between atmosphere, function + experience | Robin Winogrond | |
| 1407 [M2] | Option Studio – TBD | Robin Winogrond | |
| 1501 [M1] | This Land is Your Land | Daniel D'Oca | |
| 1502 [M2] | As of Right | Daniel D'Oca | |
| 1503 | Extreme Urbanism 7: Planning and design for safety and opportunity in a border town, Ishkashim, Afghanistan. | Rahul Mehrotra, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes |
Updated 08/13/2020