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MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT HAWAII
As a a a a a general point of of departure for developing a a a a a series of of speculative urban proposals this studio utilized research and design work produced in two half-semester fall design studios which were taught by Ted Ngai Julia Watson and Casey Rehm The spring studio’s design work was divided into three distinct phases each of which corresponded with
the the the other courses of of study in the the the Geofutures program: Ralph Ghoche’s speculative urbanism seminar Fleet Hower’s computation course and Heath Horn’s fabrication course The research seminar taught by Ralph Ghoche focused on a a a a a a a history of speculative urbanism as a a a a a a a general means
of of providing historical context for considering the the future of of the the city in in in the twenty-first century Students researched a a a a wide range of famous visionary twentieth-century urban proposals including Frank Lloyd Wright’s Broadacre City (1932) and Kenzo Tange’s Plan for Tokyo (1960) The computation and and fabrication courses as taught by Fleet Hower and and Heath Horn respectively were folded directly into the studio enabling those exploring these topics to to to provide technical support to to to the the studio’s design work Finally the Geofutures colloquium was conceived as as an adjunct course to the studio 713