Architecture as Urban Design

Mexico City + Containers of Bigness

Spring 2023 DS 1121 ( 2GB ): Architecture as Urban Design Studio

Instructor: John Enright, David Freeland, Darin Johnstone, Melissa Shin

Studio Instructor: John Enright AT: Leila Jhodadad

This studio examines the relationship between architecture and the city, deepening students’ understanding of the ways in which architecture can both inform, and be informed by, the city into which it intervenes. Through both the in-depth study of relevant examples and site research, models of formal, infrastructural, and ecological approaches to architecture’s interface with cities are considered and applied. Tasked with developing proposals for a very large, condensed urban campus project, students are encouraged to design into existing urban conditions with an understanding of the dynamic and interdependent forces of economics, planning, ecology, politics, and infrastructure that have shaped the contemporary city.