Program Overview

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Advanced Design Studio

The Advanced Design Studio is a course that explores the concept of the urban villa as a form of social housing. In 1976, a group of architects led by Oswald Mathias Ungers proposed a project for new housing in Berlin, which introduced the idea of the urban villa as a compromise between petit-bourgeois aspirations and real estate speculation.

Course Description

The urban villa is a type of housing that is neither small nor big, neither high-end nor low-end, neither beautiful nor ugly. Its origins are rooted in the compromise between petit-bourgeois aspirations and real estate speculation. The urban villa is a bastard offspring of a villa and an urban block. There is nothing utopian or socially progressive about the urban villa, and its numerous permutations can be considered some of the most eloquent examples of the commodification of housing. And yet, its form, scale, flexibility, and adaptability to different contexts make the urban villa not only a highly desirable form of housing but also a potential type for collectivized forms of housing beyond family and private property.

Course Objectives

This advanced studio asks students to revisit and redeem this bastard type in New York as the ideal form of social housing.

Faculty

• Pier Vittorio Aureli
• Emily Abruzzo

Semester Offered

• Spring 2022

Credits

• 9 credits

All Semesters

• 1114: Advanced Design Studio: A School for Children in Ho Chi Minh City (Spring 2024)
  • Instructors: Vo Trong Nghia, Can Vu Bui
• 1114: Advanced Design Studio: The Future of Entertainment (Spring 2023)
  • Instructors: Neil Thomas, Ray Winkler, Beom Jun Kim
• 1114: Advanced Design Studio: Life During Wartime, Land and Housing in NYC (Spring 2021)
  • Instructors: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Emily Abruzzo
• 1114: Advanced Design Studio: Free Library (Spring 2020)
  • Instructors: Stella Betts

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