Takis Zenetos was enthusiastic about the idea of working from home and believed that both architecture and urban planning should be reshaped in order to respond to this. He supported the design of special public spaces in residential units aiming to accommodate the inhabitants during working hours. This paper argues that Zenetos’s design for “…[Read more]

The paper analyses the role of the urban scale digital twins in conceiving and designing urban spaces. Urban scale digital twins are virtual replicas of cities. Within the current context of data-driven societies, they are often used to test scenarios related to sustainable environmental design. An important reorientation concerning the role of…[Read more]

This course focuses on the impact of the view from the car in the invention of new representational strategies in architectural and urban design. The automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory in multiple ways, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and…[Read more]

The necessity to combine sustainable methods in architectural and urban design and democratization calls for a shift from technical to the socio-technical perspectives within the field of architecture and urbanism, which is related to a need to reshape pedagogical agendas. At the center of the paper is the conviction that this endeavor of…[Read more]

The paper examines the epistemological mutations that are related to the emergence of the “paperless studios” at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP). The “paperless studios”, which were conceived in 1992, established a new set of terms for the on-going conversation on the role of digital t…[Read more]