Approved Architecture Studios
Note other approved studios, workshops, and projects are listed at: http://www.designcenter.umn.edu/metDesign/outcomes.htm

Arch 8254: Innovative Housing and Urban Design in the Netherlands
International Study Studio offered by the Department of Architecture

The Innovative Housing and Urban Design in the Netherlands studio, instructed by Professor Julia Robinson is part of a semester program of the same title in which students spend most of the semester in the Netherlands.  The trip includes field trips to urban design and housing sites in that country and elsewhere in Europe. The studio, charged with the design of an urban area that includes housing, is allied with a lecture-seminar on the history of housing and urban design in the Netherlands taught by Richard Stolzenburg. Once in the Netherlands, the students work at Delft Technical University, with faculty and Dutch professionals and visiting faculty from the United States.  A Dutch project site is selected that addresses a challenging contemporary urban design problem. The first part of the project requires a team of students to analyze the site in the context of global, national, regional, and local concerns and to propose an urban design scheme.  Subsequently, students select a particular site within their team design to develop. Architecture students develop multi-family housing; landscape architecture students develop a particular aspect of the urban design. Using materials and construction systems typical of the Netherlands, students generate a design that resonds to the Dutch cultural context.  Four weeks of initial study at CALA  prepare students to examine designs not just from an historical perspective, but also from a technical and cultural perspective.  During that time, Instructor Stolzenburg presents lectures.  Also, students and UM faculty complete an investigation of working drawings of contemporary projects that informs students' understanding of the European work they will visit.

Arch 825x: Fresh Eyes on the City
The Fresh Eyes on the City studio will involve two practitioners, Tom Meyer of Minneapolis and Diogo Burnoy of Lisbon, who will join Professor Lance Lavine in exploring the urban implications of development of a 1/2 block across Nicollet Mall from the new Public Library. Both will lead five week design charettes on this site. Each design will be followed by a two week look at the implications of designs on the development of the Nicollet Mall. Each guest will bring their own vision of the city and program for this site.