Trevor Herman Hilker
Trevor Herman Hilker is an architectural designer with an interest in speculative tools for the production, presentation and representation of architecture and its imaginaries.
Hilker holds a MArch from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where his thesis—Other Stories—took on an interrogation of the mythologies through which Western modernity has generated and persevered, alongside an architectural exploration of their possible alternatives. He was the Albert Kahn Scholar, the Richard M. and Sidney K. Robinson Scholar and the Guido and Elizabeth Binda Scholar at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, where he earned his BS in Architecture.
As a founding member of MIT’s Critical Broadcasting Lab, Hilker’s critical and curatorial work has been exhibited at the 2019 Seoul Architecture Biennale and the 2019 São Paulo Architecture Biennale. His design work has been published in Dimensions journal and Architect Magazine.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
ARCH 201G-01
GRADUATE REPRESENTATION STUDIO: DRAWINGS
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course connects the methods, traditions, and conventions of architectural drawing with contemporary technology and representational cultures. This course recognizes that for architects to operate productively, politically, socially, and ethically given the ubiquity of the digital image, both an advanced command of computational techniques and drawing techniques are immediately and primarily necessary. The digital image is the standard by which aesthetic content is transmitted, published and processed. Its pervasive role in contemporary architectural culture-and humanity-is mediated and confronted in this course. Relatedly, material drawing traditions are essential, valuable and provocative. The techniques covered in this studio-taught course include the manual and automated manipulation of digital images and material drawings at dramatically varied scales and dimensions. A structure of creative prompts continually positions the drawing and the image in parallel, with an emphasis on developing students' sensibilities, and capacity for both improvisational and scripted constructions. Students will create from memory, from life, from imagination, and from reference. As a result, students develop an architectural language that can engage multiple media and subjects.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch: Architecture (3yr)
ARCH 2350-02
ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This 3 credit advanced seminar offers students the opportunity to focus on drawing topics pertaining to architecture. Drawing is treated as a space for architectural research and/or as an autonomous work of architecture. The notion that drawing serves architecture merely as representation is questioned and critiqued. The theoretical and technical focus on the process of drawing will cultivate and address issues that have for hundreds of years served as the core of the architecture discipline. Simultaneously, the research may allow for the generation or assimilation of ideas, cultures and knowledge from other fields into architecture.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $20.00 - $100.00
Open to Junior, Senior, Fifth-year or Graduate Architecture Students.
Elective
Spring 2024 Courses
ARCH 21ST-02
ADVANCED STUDIO
SECTION DESCRIPTION
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