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ARCH 605A: Housing as an Experiment in Living

Housing as an Experiment in Living

The world has been turned upside down via a global pandemic, lack of affordable space, inflation, new attitudes about work and life, etc. As a result, the architectural pieces have…

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ARCH 502A: Adventures in the Artful Ordinary

Adventures in the Artful Ordinary

Architecture of the built environment (and reality in general) is overwhelmingly ordinary. This ordinariness is represented through a range of architectural expressions: the generic, the copy, the perfunctory, the banal,…

Lai

ARCH 502A: LARGE MODELS AND DRAWINGS

LARGE MODELS AND DRAWINGS

In this thesis group, each student will construct a large model at roughly 100 x 100 x 100 cm (or max out at 48”x48”x48”). This studio calls for each thesis…

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ARCH 502A: Control Points

Control Points

Le Corbusier reportedly said things were easier for Ledoux, 150 years his senior, because he didn’t have to deal with plumbing. He didn’t know the half of it. For today’s…

Wendy W Fok

ARCH 502A: STATEMENT

THESIS STATEMENTS

‘Hidden Infrastructures – Cultural Edition’ is an exploration into the novel, playful, and critical discourse of architectural disguise, related to topics of data and fossil fuel (oil) in cities and…

Scales of Extraction

ARCH 502A: Taking Stock

Scales of Extraction

Architecture, and the making of architecture, can be accounted for in endless ways. Buckminster Fuller once asked Norman Foster, “How much does your building weigh?”—a simple question at once easy…

ARCH502A – Berry – Studio Image

ARCH 502A: Public Exchange

Public Exchange

Architecture is inherently public. Our work as architects necessarily engages with the concerns of the world around us. We do not (and cannot) work in isolation; rather, through our actions,…

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