Fall 2025

This interdisciplinary course investigates design and making practices through the visual-perceptual, rule-based approach of shape grammars.

This course explores design thinking via 1:1 fabrication and is premised on the understanding that making and building are as fundamental to the discipline of architecture as drawing and drafting.

The Laboratory for Cybernetics enables students to engage with wicked challenges using models and methods from Cybernetics and Systems.

This course provides a practical, hands-on introduction to the application of industrial robotics in architectural and related construction domains. It also provides students with the necessary knowledge and safety protocols to work in the architectural robotics lab. 

This course is designed to introduce students to 3D software tools (3 units each), including Autodesk AutoCAD 3D, Revit Architecture and/or 3D Studio MAX.

In this course, students engage with the process of material distribution and designing, tooling, testing, prototyping and true-scale fabrication using bamboo, a meticulous endeavor that extends the sphere of their architectural education.

This course charts the emergence of the now connected world to explore the possibilities for future products and connected spaces with the Internet of Things (IoT). This introductory, hands-on course invites students without any knowledge of programming, electronics or systems to create connected products.

This course engages critical concepts from environmental justice, Black geographies, indigenous studies, urban political ecology and architecture history to interrogate these processes and to orient us away from rubrics of value, development or sustainability, towards non-extractive futures and decolonial horizons.

This design-research seminar explores alternative material formations beyond our current petrochemical reality.