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Mojdeh Baratloo

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Adjunct Associate Professor
mb193@columbia.edu
+1 212 854 3414

Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture.
Coordinator,  Urban Design Studio II
Mojdeh is a registered architect in New York City and the principal of Mojdeh Baratloo Architects, a professional practice that brings together multiple disciplines including architecture, urban design, exhibition design and installations.  She founded URGe in 2004, a pioneering urban research group of professionals and academicians committed to collaborative projects for progressive research, design, and theoretical investigation in the global arena. She has received design awards conferred by the American Institute of Architects, The Architectural League of New York, Forty under Forty Award, I.D. Annual Design Review Awards, and Interiors Magazine and is a recipient of research grants from Australian Research Council, National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has been on the faculty of Columbia University GSAPP since 1990, teaching studio and seminars in architecture and urban design and has held several visiting professorships at national and international institutions. She holds a Bachelor of Science (1976) and Master of Architecture (1978) from University of Michigan. Post Professional Studies in Urban Design University of Denmark (1997).

Urban Design Studio II 2007: New Model City: Designing (New) New York in Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange and Red

Twentieth century New York enjoyed a reputation as a prototype for urban life, in all of its cultural and industrial manifestations. However, in the current global environment New York's status as the global "model city" is being challenged against a new set of localized conditions. These include changes in land value, use and zoning, shifts in various levels of policy, stewardship, and ownership (public, private or public/private) to the reconfiguration and implementation of complex and interrelated natural and man-made systems. In fact, the flux and rapid change in both global and local conditions and dynamics are being observed and are provoking the design fields to engage the engineering and science fields to embark on a common search to understand and respond to the relations between macro trends and micro behaviors that have large predictable and unpredictable consequences.

LISTED UNDER: Baratloo Marpillero Moore Morozov Urban Design

Urban Design Studio III 2007: Two Conurbations in Evolution: Quito and Guayaquil

Why Quito and Guayaquil? Guayaquil (population 2.9 million) and Quito (population 1.8 million) are the largest cities in Ecuador and among the important emerging global metropoli in South America.  The modern incarnations of both cities date from the time of Spanish colonization, beginning in the 1530s.  Both cities have rapidly urbanized since 1950.  Guayaquil's population has multiplied by more than eight, and Quito's by over four.  Now both cities are poised for further rapid growth and increased strategic regional prominence. While the cities are in close proximity (separated by only a 30 minute flight), they are otherwise worlds apart.  

LISTED UNDER: Baratloo Duncan Jones Marshall Plunz Urban Design Studio III

Advanced Studio VI: WATER - Cycle/re-Cycle

The geopolitics of urban systems management and resource flow
A third in exchange studios at GSAPP and in collaboration with the University of Queensland, Brisbane Australia, on Land, Water and Infrastructure
Guest Critic: Kathi Holt-Damant, University of Queensland, Australia

LISTED UNDER: Advanced Studio VI Baratloo Keller

Architecture and Planning Joint Studio: THREAT MANAGEMENT

Land, Water & Infrastructure
New Paradigms in Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange & Red
Brisbane

Preceptor: Shane Taylor, Research: Justin Moore
Throughout the history of urban settlement, river valleys have been a critical agent in defining the networks of people and resources (commodities, culture and capital) that power civilizations-from the Tigris to the Thames, the Hudson to the Yangtze. This studio examined contemporary paradigms evolving in architecture, planning and urban design in relation to the balances of bio-power that could act as new agents to creatively pose physical and programmatic re-articulations of the developing Brisbane River Valley in Queensland, Australia.

LISTED UNDER: Architecture Baratloo Urban Planning

Urban Design Studio II 2009