Fall 2025

This studio is the capstone of a student’s undergraduate education and is an opportunity to integrate the various technical aspects of their professional degree to date.

This course addresses the urgent need for sustainable building design amidst climate change and global challenges. 

This studio seeks to recover the spatial entity of the Mae Kuang (Mother River Kuang) and its distributary offspring, believing that contemporary urban and architectural practices can be recalibrated with the embodied knowledge of everyday stewards, ultimately transitioning object-based approaches to address systemic issues that frame water-based resilience.

This studio situates itself at the convergence of critical research and spatial design, urging students to ground their architectural proposals in rigorous theoretical frameworks while exploring bold and experimental interventions.

This studio draws from contemporary architectural theory that redefines the term "publics." In this studio, we explore the concept of counterpublics, or groups that form in response to exclusion from dominant narratives and systems that create their own discursive spaces, rituals and spatial practices.

This studio challenges students to design a terminal for the next century, engaging the full spectrum of interdependent systems that define large-scale public architecture. Emphasis is placed on holistic, integrated thinking treating morphology, program, structure and systems as co-dependent drivers of design.

Students will investigate the wasteful worlds we've created through technology and position alternatives. Students will get to know repair’s relationship to forced obsolesce and corporate ownership of repair. They’ll also get close to repair and develop their own repair manual by spending time hands-on repairing, mending or tending to something in their world. In tandem, they’ll study sites in the world affected by electronic waste.

This studio explores new mass timber structural systems for mid-rise buildings (8–12 stories) and investigates the spatial opportunities that emerge.

This course is organized as a graduate seminar that concludes the cycle of required courses in the history and theory of architecture for the M.Arch program. 

This course provides graduate students with a general introduction to different modes of conducting architectural research, while creating opportunities for cohort building, social exchange and skills development.