As a critical nexus of the global climate crisis, South Asia provides urgent and exemplary case studies to examine the ecological, spatial, and material dimensions of contemporary cities.
Spring 2026
Poiesis II experiments by Allen Chen, Alobi Huang, Will Ivansco, Jioh Kim, Adeline Kwan, Estee Teo, Max Whalley and Lukas Yao.
This course explores conceptual, technical, and practical questions of heritage and technology through theory, concepts, and critical making.
This seminar explores the entangled histories of architecture and agriculture, focusing on land and labor. The course examines how rural space has been imagined, structured, and contested through design.
In this course, students work alongside the "x-change" and in otherwards Imprint director Tuliza Sindi, and the 2026 publication and exhibition graphic designers and copy editor, to gain direct experience with editorial and curatorial practices.
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.
This seminar focuses on the formless as an operation relative to social constructs, parametrics and aesthetics.
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.
This course focuses on the search engine and the discussion of digital representations in the context of search engines and generative AI, investigating how to unfold the hidden correlations between objects through search engines, recommendation systems, and image generators.
This course follows "48-555/48-755: Introduction to Architectural Robotics," teaching students how robots sense, interpret, and act in the built environment to connect design intent to fabrication.
This course offers a practical introduction to computational fabrication methods supporting exploratory and creative design research.
A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama and Arts Management (MAM) works with the actual client, the Festival d'Avignon, and theater consultants Jean-Guy Lecat and Len Auerbach. Students plan and program the project design challenge, which is the subject of the corequisite course "62-418/62-718: Theater Architecture II."
A diverse student cohort drawn from Architecture, Drama and Arts Management (MAM) works with the programming and planning guidelines developed in "62-408/62-708: Theater Architecture I" to further define the building design, performing arts programming, and production systems for the subject theater project.