Spring 2027

This course is an on-ramp to the Laboratory for Cybernetics (Lab4C), supporting students engaging with wicked challenges based on personal interests and/or current projects for their coursework or thesis.

The focus of this course is for students to prepare an entry for the 2027 Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Design Competition. The competition requires that the students and faculty attend the NOMA Conference, typically held in the fall each year. 

The focus of this course is for students to prepare an entry for the 2027 Barbara G. Laurie NOMA Student Design Competition. The competition requires that the students and faculty attend the NOMA Conference, typically held in the fall each year. 

This course takes reuse as our point of design and construction inspiration. Students select salvaged materials and experiment with material reconfigurations informed by a wide range of reuse practices, organizations and precedents.

Students in this course debate our respective futures, map and quantify the challenges, and collaborate to capture climate-specific architectural, urban design, and engineering innovations that address environmental challenges.

This course asks how we might write architectural histories when the building is absent, damaged, provisional, dispersed, or unrecognized as architecture. 

This course looks from and beyond the American South to consider processes, relations, and histories that inform experiences of place, but which are submerged or invisible in dominant narratives of architectural and urban design.

This course offers a practical introduction to computational fabrication methods supporting exploratory and creative design research.

This weekly seminar explores the critical elements of architectural theater design.