STORIES OF THE SECOND DECADE
With one year remaining until the first quarter of the 21st Century completes, the identity of this time period is currently being forged. In this thesis group, the students will…
FACE VALUE
The architectural image has the ability to shape a larger narrative and understanding of place that transcends the material of the built environment and can rewrite the intentions of the…
Adventures in the Algorithmic Ordinary and/or Odd Operations on the Everyday
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,…
Errors and Omissions
The truth about doing things is that sometimes we do them wrong. There are outs when things go awry: correction, restitution, tolerance, grace. But how do we treat the architect’s…
Public Engagements
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,…
Hidden Infrastructures
As the world bolts towards a circular economy of information (data), economic, political, and material exchange, the ‘Hidden Infrastructures’ thesis studio is to promote a larger awareness of the interconnected…
