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URBAN DESIGN STUDIO

The Five Borough Studio

The Summer Studio provides a framework for students to expand their design thinking using New York City as a laboratory. Three ambitions guide the studio research: to nurture a design process specific to existing urban environments, to critically consider site and program, and to interrogate the role of Urban Design in service to the public as a client. More broadly, students are introduced to a post-industrial, built-out American city through its past, current and future layers of neighborhoods, public spaces and infrastructures. This already complex landscape is now implicated in climate change—from sea level rise to extreme weather, from systems failure to environmental justice, and from technological improvements to “sustainable” living. This 21st century landscape also requires an array of emergent Urban Design tools for researching, mapping, investigating and hypothesizing the continuous process of urbanization.

Studio pedagogy treats “site” not as a given but as a value-laden construct that embodies multiple motives shaping the process and products of Urban Design. Over the course of the semester, the students explore methods of representing urban sites and their multi-scalar, multivalent systemic linkages beyond normative borders. Urban Designers must identify and investigate complex, layered contexts, within which urban places are embedded. Like site, “program” is constructed, and offers opportunities to expand the field of human interaction. Studio research is framed around urban operations, actions and claims, all of which encourage students to investigate the layers of public systems integral to constructing a transformative urban environment. Understanding Urban Design’s primary concern as serving many publics, students develop speculative hypotheses addressing the needs of a variety of stakeholders at different scales, through site-specific designs for a particular neighborhoods, across New York City’s five Boroughs.

Location & Time
500 AVERY
MWF 2PM - 6 PM
Session & Points
001
9 Points
Call Number
87280
Other Semesters & Sections
Course Semester Title Student Work Instructor Syllabus Requirements & Sequence Location & Time Session & Points Call No.
A6849‑1 Summer 2024
Urban Design Studio 1
Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Sean Gallagher, Daphne Lundi, Grant McCracken, Austin Sakong, Ankita Chachra, Mario Ulloa
TBA
M + TH 3 PM - 8 PM
FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
11762
A6849‑1 Summer 2023
Urban Design Studio 1
Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Sean Gallagher, Liz Camuti, Daphne Lundi, Austin Sakong, Grant McCracken, Candelaria Mas Pohmajevic
600N AVERY / 114 AVERY
M + TH 3 PM - 8 PM / F 4 PM - 6 PM
FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
10762
A6849‑1 Summer 2022
Urban Design Studio 1
Fooddistributiondiagram
Ud vorongolan anchalinadanuwatnontaketxiutongyuheershahhongfengwang su21 04 constructingsite
Ud vorongolan devanshigajjarxuchengrutwikkarrarohinsikka su22 4 revise section
Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Galen Pardee, Austin Sakong, Sean Gallagher, Sanjukta Sen, Miriam Peterson, Candelaria Mas Pohmajevic
600N + S AVERY HALL
M, TH 3 PM - 8 PM
FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
12431
A6849‑1 Summer 2021
Urban Design Studio 1
Ud voron golan samueldye javierortiz minsungkim carmenyu su21 03 section
Ud voron golan aishwaryamathukumilli govardanrajasekaranumashankar shinanliu 01 visionscenario
Ud voron golan avaniagarwal haoma surabhidahivalkar su21 image 1 aerial
Nans Voron, Sagi Golan, Tami Banh, Sean Gallagher, Galen Pardee, Austin Sakong, Jae Shin
500 NORTH AVERY
M, TH 3 PM - 8 PM
FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
12502
A6849‑1 Fall 2020
Urban Design Studio
Ud voron victorlo youjinhwang marianamajima corinafuenmayor fa20 image2 greenhousescenario
Ud voron lingbeichen kylesam zuzannajarzynska wenyipeng fa20 image4 agoraaxon
Ud voron kaiguo jilshah scarlettong huiyazhong fa20 image3 coolingcorridorresidentialstreets
Nans Voron, Tami Banh, Ifeoma Ebo, Sagi Golan, Austin Sakong, Noah Chasin
206 FAYERWEATHER
M + TH 4PM - 8 PM F 8:30AM -10:30AM
FULL SEMESTER
9 Points
11856
A6849‑1 Summer 2019
Urban Design Studio 1
Rendering by Shailee Shah
Rendering by Ritchie Ju
Drawing by Nina Lish
Tricia Martin, Nans Voron, Hayley Eber, Sagi Golan, Quilian Riano, Austin Sakong, Shin-pei Tsay
206 Fayerweather
M TH 1 PM - 6:30 PM
9 Points
36926
A6849‑1 Summer 2018
Studio I: Five Borough Studio
Rendering by Zilu He, Lorena Galvao, and Xiaofei Sun.
Rendering by Zilu He, Lorena Galvao, and Xiaofei Sun.
Diagram by Richard Chou, Keju Liu, and Alaa Marrawi.
Kaja Kühl, Tricia Martin, Brian Baldor, Hayley Eber, Sagi Golan, Shachi Pandey, Austin Sakong Syllabus Required for UD
TBA
M, W & TH 2 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
9 Points
61546
A6849‑1 Summer 2017
Urban Design Studio
Ud kuehl carolinejeon chenyuxu huanyuchen sonusharma su17 01web
Ud kuehl huanyuchen lesliechuang carolinejeon xianyaoxia su17 01web
Ud kuehl jack bai deeksha kalra  jose neto  su17 01web
Kaja Kühl, Thaddeus Pawlowski, James Khamsi, Ben Brady, Brian Baldor, Philippa Brashear Syllabus UD Required
700 AVERY
M/W/Th 2 PM - 6 PM
Full Semester
9 Points
75505
A6849‑1 Summer 2016
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
Kaja Kühl, James Khamsi, Thaddeus Pawlowski, Brian Baldor, Ben Abelman REQUIRED UD
M, TH 1 - 7PM
9 Points
76096
A6849‑1 Summer 2014
URBAN DESIGN STUDIO
500 AVERY
MWF 2PM - 6 PM
001
9 Points
87280