The studio sequence runs adjacent to a number of required and elective courses that develop skills in spatial analysis, critical thinking, research methods, and visualization techniques—and that enable students to rigorously propose urban change in any number of capacities. Elective courses, encouraged at GSAPP and other schools at the university, address the specific and varied problems, facets, and processes of urbanization—from human rights to agricultural policy to systems of finance. Throughout the interwoven studio-seminars sequence, projects emphasize a multi-scalar approach to site and program, embracing local, regional, and global scales and advancing the role of the urban designer as a thoughtful practitioner entangled with a diverse set of actors and existing conditions, and crucial to the implementation of imagined futures.
The Summer semester consists of four courses that operate intellectually and methodologically as an integrated curriculum focusing on the New York metropolitan region. All work is based on the coordinated learning of concepts, working methods, historical precedents, research protocols, and representational strategies. Faculty and associates overlap, courses and subjects mix, and design agendas are tested in various settings. This teaching model demonstrates how Urban design can weave together varied tasks of storytelling, community engagement, site survey and interpretation, filmmaking, digital visualization, mapping, and 3D modeling, all of which enable students to create urban knowledge and to iterate, represent and communicate design ideas.
The Fall Studio II expands in scope to consider the city-region, examining large scale interdependencies and interactions. Studio research addresses the particular conditions of American city-regions (currently, the Hudson Valley) in which shifting ecological, topographical, infrastructural, demographic and social conditions call for new strategies for systemic action.
The final Spring Studio III takes on problems of global urbanization, extending previous work on variously-scaled physical and social infrastructures, programmatic interventions and community partnerships. The studio typically travels to two cities, working in close cooperation with local partners and organizations.
In this eleventh episode of GSAPP Conversations, Urban Design Director Kate Orff joins Dean Amale Andraos to discuss what it means to think across scales and connect our human life with the geological time scale, how traveling international studios allow students to better address challenges shared by otherwise very different cities, and teaching the reciprocity of physical design and social context.
Listen to more podcasts from the Urban Design program by following UD Sessions: The Expanded Field of Urban Design, a series of conversations with urban designers around the globe, who graduated from or taught at GSAPP’s Urban Design program. By discussing their current work and reflecting on how their experience at GSAPP shaped their thinking about design, cities, and politics, the series explores the ways in which the field of urban design expanded since its emergence. Hosted by Kaja Kühl and Grahame Shane.
Course | Semester | Title | Student Work | Instructor | Syllabus | Requirements & Sequence | Location & Time | Session & Points | Call No. |
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A6832‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Resilient Landscapes
|
Kate Orff |
REMOTE
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
12230 | |||
A6851‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Urban Design Studio II
|
Kaja Kühl, Lee Altman, Anna Dietzsch , Shachi Pandey, Thaddeus Pawlowski |
200 FAYERWEATHER + REMOTE
M & TH 1:30 PM - 6:30 PM, W 5 PM - 7 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
|
12241 | |||
A4385‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Arab Modernism(s): Experiments in Housing, 1945-present
|
Yasser Elsheshtawy |
REMOTE
M 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13275 | |||
A4846‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Super-Tall
|
Nicole Dosso |
REMOTE
TH 7 PM - 9 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
12218 | |||
A4389‑1 | Spring 2021 |
(Un) Modern: Ex-Centric Latin@/X Spatial Practices
|
Luis E. Carranza |
REMOTE
M 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
14278 | |||
A4444‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Façade Detailing: A Material Understanding
|
Kevin Schorn |
REMOTE
TH 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
12190 | |||
A4688‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Recombinant Urbanism
|
David Grahame Shane |
REMOTE
M 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
11843 | |||
A4987‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Architectural Photography: From the Models to the Built World
|
Michael Vahrenwald |
REMOTE
F 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
12165 | |||
A4988‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Coding for Spatial Practices
|
Celeste Layne |
REMOTE
TU 7 PM - 9 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13297 | |||
A4991‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Topics in Viz Tech: Location Intelligence
|
Carlo Bailey |
REMOTE
TU 6 PM - 8 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13299 | |||
A4995‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Power Tools
|
Lexi Tsien, Jelisa Blumberg |
REMOTE
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13301 | |||
A6702‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Investigative Techniques
|
Norman Weiss, Amanda Thomas Trienens |
CONSERVATION LAB - 655 SCHERMERHORN
W 2 PM - 5 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
12464 | |||
A6815‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Public Space: Rhetorics and Practices
|
David Smiley |
REMOTE
W 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
11957 | |||
A6858‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Open Work
|
Enrique Walker |
REMOTE
TH 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
12115 | |||
A6874‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Architecture’s Empire: A global atlas of modern architecture
|
Lucia Allais |
REMOTE
M 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13281 | |||
A6876‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Materials, Materiality, Materialisms: Technical lessons from the history of architecture, art and media.
|
Lucia Allais |
REMOTE
W 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13292 | |||
A6880‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Towards a Trans-Species Architecture—Rethinking Lina Bo Bardi
|
Mark Wigley |
REMOTE
TU 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13295 | |||
A6884‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Media as Method, Program as Politics
|
Mark Rakatansky |
REMOTE
W 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13296 | |||
A6887‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Radical Domesticities
|
Mary McLeod |
REMOTE
M 10 AM - 12 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
14272 | |||
A6414‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Digital Heritage Documentation
|
Bilge Kose |
CONSERVATION LAB - 655 SCHERMERHORN
W 5 PM - 7 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
12462 | |||
A4890‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Conflict Urbanism
|
Laura Kurgan |
REMOTE
W 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
11829 | |||
A4063‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Points Unknown: Cartographic Narratives
|
Juan Saldarriaga, Michael Krisch |
REMOTE
F 11 AM - 1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
11292 | |||
A4122‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Mapping For Architecture Urbanism and Humanities
|
Emily Fuhrman |
REMOTE
F 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
11295 | |||
A4407‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Methods in Spatial Research
|
Dare Brawley |
REMOTE
F 9 AM - 11 AM
|
SES A
1.5 Points
|
11822 | |||
A4411‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Climate, Technology, and Society
|
Reinhold Martin |
REMOTE
TU 9 AM - 11 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13067 | |||
A4437‑1 | Spring 2021 |
A Tale of Two Cities: New York and Johannesburg
|
Ifeoma Ebo |
REMOTE
TH 8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
13106 | |||
A4552‑1 | Spring 2021 |
Dark Space: Architecture Representation & Black Identity
|
Mario Gooden |
REMOTE
TU 11 AM-1 PM
|
FULL SEMESTER
3 Points
|
11841 |