Ryan McCaffrey is the founding principal of Regional Building Group, a design practice that specializes in integrated residential, landscape and interior architecture. From 2013–19 he was based in Hangzhou, China, where he led cultural and residential architecture projects under Wang Shu at Amateur Architecture Studio. Alongside practice, McCaffrey teaches and writes about regionalism in architecture and its relationship to contemporary industrialized environments.
Times: MTH | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Ryan McCaffreyLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 308Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
The second core studio addresses the agency of the building to simultaneously construct new spatial, social, and material orders in the context of the contemporary city. The second core studio situates architecture as the strategic interplay of spatial and constructive concepts towards specific aesthetic, social, and performative ends. The studio seeks to create a productive friction between abstract orders (form, pattern, organization), technical systems (structure, envelope), and the contingencies of real-world conditions (site, climate, politics). The studio asks students to link disciplinary methods to extra-disciplinary issues, with concentrated forays into the realms of structure, material, and critical preservation. Students iteratively develop architectural concepts, ethical positions, and experimental working methods through a series of focused architectural design projects with increasing degrees of complexity, culminating in the design of a mid-scale public building in an urban context.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
