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Studio-X

STUDIO-X is a downtown studio for design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.

STUDIO-X locates itself in the heart of New York's creative community to establish a productive workspace and a rendezvous point for regular gatherings of colleagues dedicated to emergent thought.

STUDIO-X provides an open infrastructure for short-term collaborative projects by a collective of GSAPP faculty while acting as a base for some of the school's long-term experimental research units.

STUDIO-X brings together a new generation of architects, historians, theorists, graphic designers, spatial data analysts, media analysts, video artists, and landscape designers who have already established their independent practices.

STUDIO-X extends the daily operations of an architectural school devoted to all aspects of the built environment further into the public domains of design competitions, reports, publications, commissions, exhibitions, and events.

STUDIO-X dedicates itself to removing the lines between education and action, information and transformation.

LISTED UNDER: Global New York Studio-X
Reading New York Urbanism SU02

The aim of this course is to provide Urban Designers with critical tools with which to examine the conditions and project the possibilities of life in the 21st century global city - at a time when New York City is receiving unprecedented media attention, business expansion, popularity as a place of immigration, tourism and entertainment and, tragically, the object of terrorist aggression. It becomes increasingly difficult to see the city as lived in rather than as dreamed or imagined. The representation of the global city over valorizes certain sectors: finance, fashion, and entertainment, while it renders invisible the underlying structural inequalities of the late capitalist urban world. Our aim will be to balance theoretical discourses on capitalism, modernism and urbanization with empirical material from every-day life: observations on the struggles for cultural expression, civic rights, public space and a sense of dignity and place. The subject matter is broad, but will always return to a discussion of our place in the city itself, here and now.

LISTED UNDER: McGrath New York Urban Design

Reading New York Urbanism

Digital Assistant: Brandt Graves

Reading New York Urbanism will open the week for the digital seminars in terms of content and subject matter. Lectures focus on urban design representation emphasizing ephemeral and experiential dimensions of New York City. Urban design topics are centered on an urban systems-based interpretation of the city. The work will appropriate cinematic techniques for the production of short videos. This will include 3d model animations, analytical techniques from the Digital Modeling for Urban Design course, live video footage and soundscapes. Work will be completed in Flash and AfterEffects . Video work will be the concentration after mid-term in order to synchronize the teaching of these tools with the pace and requirements of UD Studio 1. The final deliverable will be 60-90 second videos completed by student pairs. To integrate with the curricular work load, RNYU subject matter will focus on the five geographic study areas shared with UD Studio 1 in NYC.

LISTED UNDER: New York Systems Urbanism

Studio-X Exhibition: The Geography of Buzz: Visualizing Cultural Space in New York and Los Angeles

On view April 4th - May 8th

LISTED UNDER: Buzz data visualization Geography Los Angeles New York Studio-X
The Geography of Buzz: Visualizing Cultural Space in New York and Los Angeles
04.07.09 - 05.08.09
12:00AM - 11:59PM
Studio-X 180 Varick Street, STE 1610 New York, NY 10014 | Between King and Charleton Streets 1 train to Houston Street
An Exhibition at Studio-X, featuring a series of maps detailing the cultural industries in New York and Los Angeles and urban development.
Listed Under: Buzz Cultural Space data visualization Los Angeles New York