Storycraft explores the craftsmanship of imaginative storytelling. Through concurrent investigations of narrative fiction and speculative object making, this course bridges creative writing and the physical craft of making to communicate original ideas through the universal language of stories.
This course provides practice in the use of color to depict architectural surroundings. Following preliminary exercises using pastels, watercolor is used for most of the course. By the end of the course, students will have good judgement in evaluating color hue, value and temperature and gain confidence in use of watercolor.
In this course you will study the relationships and perception of space and form through two- and three-dimensional optical experiments using color.
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.
This course prepares students for modeling geometry through the scripted development of parametric schemes, primarily for design applications. The goal of the course is to introduce students to basic scripting in a geometrical modeling environment with a focus on form-making algorithms, and to reinforce and extend basic concepts of parametric modeling.
Through transdisciplinary methods and a framework of thinking and practice that this course terms “Unreasonable Architecture,” the course aims to introduce a more expanded knowledge framework of meaning that includes indigenous systems and spatial technologies that sit outside the constraints of modern reason and economic legibility.
This course explores the architectural and urban design histories of American cities, tracing their evolution from colonial settlements to the late 20th century.
How do economic theory and coeval ideologies shape land use and impact architectural agency? Whether you have an endless growth or scarcity mindset, believe in industry dominance vs. economic equilibrium, or would like to do a maximalist/minimalist run of capitalism, we seek to further system-based understanding and reflect critically on industry-based development.
This architectural history course surveys the built environment of Mexico and Guatemala during the Mesoamerican and Spanish Colonial eras. While the ensuing Spanish architectural and urban imprints can be seen as a superimposition of colonialism’s political, social and architectural ideals on top of Maya and other Pre-Columbian traditions, the architecture of the Colonial era is also characterized by resistance, fusion and invention between European and indigenous practices.
Part I of this seminar course is situated at the intersection of global infrastructural history and architectural world-making across the modern era. Students explore how infrastructures — understood as the material, technical and social systems of connectivity and relationality that establish the foundation for other forms of power to operate — are woven through space and sedimented in overlapping temporal layers.
Part II of this seminar course focuses on the intersections of infrastructural theory and architectural world-making. Students will explore how infrastructures — understood as the material, technical and social systems of connectivity and relationality that establish the foundation for other forms of power to operate — are woven through space and sedimented in overlapping temporal layers.
