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ARCH 502: Control Points 2026

Instructor: Eric Haas

FRAGMENTS OF A CITY: THE ARCHITECTURE OF PLAY

Fernando Campos | Eric Haas What if a city could fit in your hands? This project breaks Mexico City's architecture into modular pieces you can stack, rearrange, and play with. By controlling scale, material, placement, and interaction, it tests how learning happens through touch, manipulation, and failure. As young children build and rebuild, they begin to recognize patterns and forms drawn from layered cultural histories. Play turns into memory, where fragments of the city become familiar over time.

Architecture becomes something you don't jjust see but figure out by making it.

FRAGMENTS OF A CITY: THE ARCHITECTURE OF PLAY