The Five Borough Studio
The Summer Studio provides a framework for students to expand their design thinking using New York City as a laboratory. Three ambitions guide the studio research: to nurture a design process specific to existing urban environments, to critically consider site and program, and to interrogate the role of Urban Design in service to the public as a client. More broadly, students are introduced to a post-industrial, built-out American city through its past, current and future layers of neighborhoods, public spaces and infrastructures. This already complex landscape is now implicated in climate change—from sea level rise to extreme weather, from systems failure to environmental justice, and from technological improvements to “sustainable” living. This 21st century landscape also requires an array of emergent Urban Design tools for researching, mapping, investigating and hypothesizing the continuous process of urbanization.
Studio pedagogy treats “site” not as a given but as a value-laden construct that embodies multiple motives shaping the process and products of Urban Design. Over the course of the semester, the students explore methods of representing urban sites and their multi-scalar, multivalent systemic linkages beyond normative borders. Urban Designers must identify and investigate complex, layered contexts, within which urban places are embedded. Like site, “program” is constructed, and offers opportunities to expand the field of human interaction. Studio research is framed around urban operations, actions and claims, all of which encourage students to investigate the layers of public systems integral to constructing a transformative urban environment. Understanding Urban Design’s primary concern as serving many publics, students develop speculative hypotheses addressing the needs of a variety of stakeholders at different scales, through site-specific designs for a particular neighborhoods, across New York City’s five Boroughs.
Course | Semester | Title | Student Work | Instructor | Syllabus | Requirements & Sequence | Location & Time | Session & Points | Call No. |
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A6849‑1 | Summer 2024 |
Urban Design Studio 1
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Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Sean Gallagher, Daphne Lundi, Grant McCracken, Austin Sakong, Ankita Chachra, Mario Ulloa |
TBA
M + TH 3 PM - 8 PM
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FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
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11762 | |||
A6849‑1 | Summer 2023 |
Urban Design Studio 1
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Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Sean Gallagher, Liz Camuti, Daphne Lundi, Austin Sakong, Grant McCracken, Candelaria Mas Pohmajevic |
600N AVERY / 114 AVERY
M + TH 3 PM - 8 PM / F 4 PM - 6 PM
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FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
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10762 | |||
A6849‑1 | Summer 2022 |
Urban Design Studio 1
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Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Galen Pardee, Austin Sakong, Sean Gallagher, Sanjukta Sen, Miriam Peterson, Candelaria Mas Pohmajevic |
600N + S AVERY HALL
M, TH 3 PM - 8 PM
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FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
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12431 | ||
A6849‑1 | Summer 2021 |
Urban Design Studio 1
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Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Tami Banh, Sean Gallagher, Galen Pardee, Austin Sakong, Jae Shin |
500 NORTH AVERY
M, TH 3 PM - 8 PM
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FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
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12502 | ||
A6849‑1 | Fall 2020 |
Urban Design Studio
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Nans Voron, Tami Banh, Ifeoma Ebo, Sagi Golan, Austin Sakong, Noah Chasin |
206 FAYERWEATHER
M + TH 4PM - 8 PM F 8:30AM -10:30AM
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FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
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11856 | ||
A6849‑1 | Summer 2018 |
Studio I: Five Borough Studio
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Kaja Kühl, Tricia Martin, Brian Baldor, Hayley Eber, Sagi Golan, Shachi Pandey, Austin Sakong | Syllabus | Required for UD |
TBA
M, W & TH 2 PM - 6 PM
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Full Semester
9 Points
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61546 |
A6849‑1 | Summer 2017 |
Urban Design Studio
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Kaja Kühl, Thaddeus Pawlowski, James Khamsi, Ben Brady, Brian Baldor, Philippa Brashear | Syllabus | UD Required |
700 AVERY
M/W/Th 2 PM - 6 PM
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Full Semester
9 Points
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75505 |
A6849‑1 | Summer 2016 |
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
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Kaja Kühl, James Khamsi, Thaddeus Pawlowski, Brian Baldor, Ben Abelman | REQUIRED UD |
M, TH 1 - 7PM
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9 Points
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76096 | ||
A6849‑1 | Summer 2015 |
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
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Kaja Kühl, James Khamsi, Ben Abelman, Brian Baldor, Tricia Martin, Thaddeus Pawlowski |
500 AVERY
MWF 2PM - 6 PM
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001
9 Points
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87280 | ||
A6849‑1 | Summer 2014 |
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
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500 AVERY
MWF 2PM - 6 PM
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001
9 Points
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87280 |