Aaron Tobey is a PhD candidate at the Yale School of Architecture and a freelance designer living in Providence. His dissertation combines media theory, architectural history, and science and technology studies to analyze how early computer use, management thinking and international practice shaped one another within American architectural firms from the 1960s to the 1980s. His previous academic work has explored how information, communication and representation technologies inform collective social imaginations of space and political subject formation. Tobey’s research and writing has been included in Thresholds, the Journal of Architectural Education and Architecture and Culture, and in conferences of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand and the Architecture, Media, Politics, and Society research initiative, among other venues.
Tobey earned his MArch at RISD and was awarded a 2015 Graduate Studies Grant to conduct field research aboard the container ship ZIM San Francisco and the 2016 Alumni Travel Award to study the border between Israel and Palestine. He obtained his BArch at the University of Cincinnati and also attended the École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris. He has worked professionally at a number of firms throughout the US including the rendering consultancy Studio AMD in Providence, Fougeron Architecture in San Francisco and Studio LUZ Architects in Boston.
This course, the first in a two semester sequence, explores design principles specific to architecture. Two interrelated aspects of design are pursued:
the elements of composition and their formal, spatial, and tectonic manipulation
meanings conveyed by formal choices and transformations.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Sophomore Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch: Architecture
ARCH 320G-01 - GRADUATE THEORY SEMINAR: MAKING DISCOURSE
LevelGraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
FormatSeminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 320G-01
GRADUATE THEORY SEMINAR: MAKING DISCOURSE
LevelGraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2023
Credits3
FormatSeminar
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: F | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PMInstructor(s): Aaron TobeyLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 324Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is a theoretical seminar course that will be concerned with ideas and architectural knowledge that may be cultivated and tested through discourse. The course discussions will focus on an expansive role of architectural tools. While acknowledging a wealth of disciplinary conventions, histories and theories, this course recognizes that the forms of representation within the discipline of architecture have the capacity to affect the discipline of architecture and are not fixed. Students in this course will be expected to build upon their previous architectural education through a series of directed projects aimed at advancing architectural theories, ideas and methods. Some of the questions that students will be expected to address are: What are the practical, theoretical, and creative implications of a drawing that functions as architecture? How do architects change the way we make and think thanks to digital media? How do architects represent and model natural forces? How do architects express political or social agendas? What is the nature of an architectural contribution to interdisciplinary discourse? How can representation enable new kinds of artistic and research-based practices for architecture? Students will be expected to self-direct their process while framing their work intellectually in a seminar environment.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $150.00
This course is limited to first-year MArch (2yr) Architecture Students.
These studios, three of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Fee: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
