This first-year postgraduate research studio investigates and designs the anarchistic city, a city without governance and collectivity, a city without rules. In this city, how is energy distributed? How are the roads made? Where are they if they exist? How about education? Sports? The studio will investigate the ultimate anarchistic situation and when and where it goes wrong. It is simulated as an interactive generative process on the base of abstract model city and applied on a real city that is growing in density in time. In order to investigate the relationship between density and anarchy, the studio will create a simulative game.
This second-year postgraduate research studio is simultaneously devoted to the study of computationalism, through its most advanced development—finance—and in its least known, but nonetheless real, posturban and geographical architectural consequences (global urban planning based on network access times); and the study of our “domestic” environment—where domestic means above all “immediate” and does not recognize the traditional distinction between work and leisure and the private sphere and public space.
This seminar explores the main theoretical hypotheses of computationalism as a basis for contemporary research in architecture, and as a way to overcome Western rationalism.
This seminar investigates the post–9/11 era, looking at the political events and themes of the last decade from a philosophical and activist point of view.
A one-week master class led by Alejandro Zaera-Polo with Maider Llaguno Munitxa.
A one-week master class led by Reinier de Graaf and Laura Baird.
This seminar looks at the development of urban form, exploring case studies from the twentieth century and how they relate to the present.
This seminar explores the Netherlands, elaborating on the quantities and qualities that have made the Netherlands a unique manmade environment of reclaimed land, waterways, enduring flatness, fortified cities and social-capitalism.
This first-year postgraduate research studio proposes an exhaustive analysis of the possibilities generated by small-scale interventions concentrated mainly on the public space to regenerate the urban life of our cities and to design a series of specific strategies in the Nieuw-West neighborhood of Amsterdam.
This seminar explores the forms of expression—drawings, books, exhibitions, lectures, models—used by architects to communicate their positions and intentions.
This second-year postgraduate research studio explores the specific history and architectural problem of the occupation of Palestine.