We start the semester with a selection of outstanding architectural works. We will examine their specific, spatial and constructive qualities. We reconstruct these buildings and work on a scale of 1:20 to 1:1 for the drawing and model. Armed with this store of knowledge, we construct the first simple buildings with a specified use.

The Sareis chairlift was last refurbished in 1994. As the average life of such a system is only 25 years, there will be a real need for a reconstruction of t...

Envisioning Urban Desires

The Great Khan’s atlas contains also the maps of the promised lands visited in thought but not yet discovered or founded: New Atlantis, Utopia, the City of the Sun, Oceana, Tamoé, New Harmony, New Lanark, Icaria.

Kublai asked Marco: “You, who go about exploring and who see signs, can tell me toward which of these futures the favouring winds are driving us.”

“For these ports I could not draw a route on the map or set a date for the landi...