Poiesis II Experiments by Jimmy Kweon, Ryan Wang, Paul Doyle, and Sylvia Kim

Poiesis II Experiments by Jimmy Kweon, Ryan Wang, Paul Doyle, and Sylvia Kim

Instructor: Nathan Sawyer

This course guides students through the process of designing in Revit from the schematic, conceptual design phase, to the construction document phase. The skills learned from this course help students understand the phases of design and documentation in the Revit environment.

Instructor: Omar Khan

This course is for the team responsible for the project management of the Carnival Entryway Pavilion, to be completed for the 2025 CMU Carnival.

Instructor: Neal Lucas Hitch

This course investigates the creative repurposing and reconfiguration of found and discarded timber cut-offs (design) as material stock for digitally fabricated laminate wood structures (fabrication). Leveraging computational design tools – AI, parametric design software, and more – students explore novel economic models that are smaller, more sustainable, and circular.

Instructor: Lori Claus

This course is geared towards graduate students who are seeking an internship or new employment opportunities. Focus includes building networking skills, verbal and communication skills and how to increase their human capital.

Instructor: Jongwan Kwon

The current energy crisis and climate change have impelled architects to challenge many standing assumptions in material culture and rethink the relationship between materials, the environment, construction methods, and labor. To address the urgent need for climate protection, architects should scrutinize the enduring material system, and practices and seek simple, adaptive, and constructive solutions that enable ongoing change.

Instructor: Theodossis (Theo) Issaias

The course is organized as a research-by-design seminar that charts environmental uncertainty and contends with the role of spatial practices in territorial and ecological transformations. Central to our attention is the region of western Pennsylvania, its rivers, forests, fracklands, cities and its associated social, political, cultural and material geographies.

Instructor: Francesca Torello

This seminar looks at the history of the architecture of the last two centuries by following the thread of the history of materials. We learn from historical examples to assess the consequences of the choices we make as designers.

Instructor: Jackie Joseph Paul McFarland

This course examines the issues of the destruction and reconstruction of buildings and cities. In doing so, we raise questions about the nature of architecture and cityscapes, cultural loss and cultural recovery, and how buildings and cities have come to represent other issues such as national identity and progress.

Instructor: Diane Shaw

This course examines the ways in which the interactions and intersections of place, time and culture have created distinctive regional patterns. We will primarily focus on the periods before the 20th century, when the forces of vernacular traditions were stronger, but we will also make forays into more recent trends of regionalism as an aesthetic choice, a theoretical stance, and an intentional place-making device.

Instructor: Xin Chen

From prehistoric times to the 20th century, this course examines a broad spectrum of building forms and urban planning in China, Japan, Korea, India and Southeast Asia. The course motivates next-generation architects to include an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective in their own works of design.