The first of three graduate core studios focus on iterative making and critical discourse to challenge disciplinary conventions and learn how to make self-authored design decisions in service of abstract spatial ideas. The agency of architecture lies in its capacity to be enactive. It is occupied, experienced and materialized; it constructs, organizes and extends relations among the many. Its forms, spatial orders, materials, and systems result from the designed consideration of physical and spatial interdependencies with the practices, habits and aspirations of its subjects. Providing a precise and specific set of tools and armatures, this first of three core studios introduces the art of architecture as a design process and language that activates, mediates and politicizes the built environment and its subjects.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $500.00

Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.

Major Requirement | MArch (2yr) and (3yr): Architecture

Constructed Simulations (ARCH-2350) is a drawing seminar centered around the practice of atmospheric simulation. The course brings into dialogue two disparate modes of architectural representation: the wall section and the rendering. Leveraging physics simulation capabilities from Blender and Unreal Engine, students will explore the atmospheric potentials of various wall assemblies and construction systems. With an interest in destabilizing conventional material regimes and associated notions of comfort, the course aims to advance the representational agenda of biogenic constructions and bioclimatic adaptation through toggling the environmental levers of rendering engines.

Open to LDAR, INTAR, and ID students with faculty approval

Estimated Cost of Materials: $20.00 - $100.00

Elective