Barcelona Urban Design Studio (UO ARCH 4/584)

Instructor

Philip Speranza

Location

Course Description

The intermediate architectural design studio that engages the design of streets, plazas and other urban space from the human-scale for the betterment of health. The studio will be integrated with the seminar, media and advanced technology courses and provide an opportunity for students to use urban theory, data and media to inform data driven smart city design. The course will teach students to identify urban problems. They will be research, experience and observe these problem in-situ and remotely. Students will learn skills and methods to design space at the scale of the human space and the scale of the larger city. Design will be done in an iterative approach drive by computational research techniques.

Syllabus