This seminar focuses on the formless as an operation relative to social constructs, parametrics and aesthetics.
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 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.
This course investigates how rule-based, agent-based, and probability-based design systems have influenced the development of architectural form and discourse.