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.
This course investigates the history of a wide range of buildings, architecture, cities, landscapes and theory across the 20th century around the world. We interrogate the deep legacies of colonialism, globalization, extractivism and capitalism in which modern architecture so actively participated.
Are you interested in exploring exhibition design, curating, or publishing as part of your practice? This course will give you hands-on experience, inviting you into the process of planning, designing, and curating the 2025 EX-CHANGE.
The Laboratory for Cybernetics enables students to engage with wicked challenges using models and methods from Cybernetics and Systems.
This seminar focuses on the formless as an operation relative to social constructs, parametrics and aesthetics. Participants in the seminar develop an archive, original visualizations that utilizes multiple mediums and platforms, and culminate in a final project a part of an exhibition.
Bamboo, a material brimming with immense, yet largely unexplored potential, particularly within the realm of architecture, stands as a testament to nature’s ingenuity.
This course focuses on the search engine and the discussion of digital representations in the context of search engines and generative AI.
A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama and Arts Management students will work with the actual client, the Festival d'Avignon, and Theater consultants Jean Guy Lecat and Len Auerbach to plan and program the project design challenge, which will be the subject of the co- requisite Architecture studio (48:405/505/750)
This course is a continuation of Theater Architecture 1, 62408/708, which is a prerequisite. A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama and Arts Management students will work with the programming and planning guidelines that were developed in Theater Architecture 1 to further define the building design (Architecture students), performing arts programming (MAM students), and production systems (Drama students) for the subject theater project.
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This course focuses on using software as a storytelling machine to provoke architectural thinking about reality. Through the interaction, simulation and immersion of play, we can experiment with ideas, collect data and create narratives about our vision of the future built environment.
