Jacqueline Shaw

Schiller Family Assistant Professorship in Race in Art and Design Assistant Professor of Architecture
Jacqueline Shaw
BFA, California State University
MARC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Jacqueline Shaw is an architectural designer and the founder of Studio Euonym, a research and design practice based in Providence. Her research is currently focused on constructs of value in the context of historical architecture, artifacts, archives and systems of evaluation. Most recently, the work has considered ways in which acts of historic preservation could exist as re-evaluative rather than additive processes. 

Shaw received her MArch with distinction from the University of Michigan Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning and a BFA in Interior Design from California State University, Long Beach. Her thesis project, go(slow)gas up, studied the dismantling of everyday practices through site-specific installations and the individual experience of architectural details. Shaw’s work has been published in Dimensions, Ampersand, Surface and The Wall Street Journal. She has over 10 years of professional experience in New York City and Detroit as an associate at SPAN Architecture and the practices of Jaklitsch/Gardner Architects, now known as Stephen Burks Man Made and M1/DTW.

Fall 2023 Courses

ARCH 2352-01 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 2352-01

ADVANCED TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURAL THEORY

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2023
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2023-09-06 to 2023-12-13
Times: W | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM Instructor(s): Jacqueline Shaw Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 324 Enrolled / Capacity: 14 Status: Open

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Theory offerings in the architecture department are deliberately consistent or complementary with our pedagogy, born and raised in an arts college. Theory based courses have a basis in empiricism, direct observation and experience of creative processes. Recognizing that discovery and invention often come between existing matrices of thought, offerings may be from disciplines other than architecture or branches of knowledge other than art and design. Objectives of the theory component of our curriculum are to:

  • Expand the capacity to speculate productively.
  • Develop the skeptic's eye and mind.
  • Equip the ability to recognize connections that trigger discovery and invention.

Preference is given to Junior, Senior, Fifth-year or Graduate Architecture Students.

Elective

Wintersession 2024 Courses

ARCH 2197-101 - THESIS DISCURSIVE WORKSHOP
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Wintersession 2024
Credits 3
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 2197-101

THESIS DISCURSIVE WORKSHOP

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Wintersession 2024
Credits 3
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-01-04 to 2024-02-07
Times: W | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM | 01/31/2024 - 01/31/2024; W | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM | 01/17/2024 - 01/17/2024; THF | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM | 01/04/2024 - 02/02/2024 Instructor(s): Jacqueline Shaw Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106 Enrolled / Capacity: 30 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Thesis Discursive Workshop utilizes Wintersession to hone students' discursive skills, both written and oral, so that they can choreograph a robust discussion around their work. This course establishes a consistent discursive trajectory to the ongoing individual design development of the thesis project that begins in the Fall. In addition to providing a forum in which students might draw out, articulate, and position some of the central claims and aims of their thesis work, this course also aims to instigate careful thought about the written component of the eventual thesis book and the way that this written component might inform or be informed by design work. The assignments of the course are designed to create the infrastructure of a student's eventual thesis book, the elements of any/many book(s). They are not the book content itself, but organize, clarify, define, contextualize, reference, etc. the work contained therein. These elements, for the purposes of this course, are: synopsis (back page/cover flap summary), cover art, bibliography, table of contents, title, index, and appendix/appendices. In this five-week intensive workshop, students will develop and refine the following skills, relating each development to a component of their eventual book via an assignment:

  • Crafting the thesis polemic or narrative
  • Positioning the thesis
  • Contextualizing and formatting the thesis
  • Curating and editing the thesis
  • Persuasively articulating the thesis

Scheduled to be determined with advisor.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

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

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

ARCH 2197-102 - THESIS DISCURSIVE WORKSHOP
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Wintersession 2024
Credits 3
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 2197-102

THESIS DISCURSIVE WORKSHOP

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Wintersession 2024
Credits 3
Format Workshop
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-01-04 to 2024-02-07
Times: W | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM | 01/31/2024 - 01/31/2024; W | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM | 01/17/2024 - 01/17/2024; THF | 9:40 AM - 12:40 PM | 01/04/2024 - 02/02/2024 Instructor(s): Jacqueline Shaw Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 106 Enrolled / Capacity: 30 Status: Closed

SECTION DESCRIPTION

Thesis Discursive Workshop utilizes Wintersession to hone students' discursive skills, both written and oral, so that they can choreograph a robust discussion around their work. This course establishes a consistent discursive trajectory to the ongoing individual design development of the thesis project that begins in the Fall. In addition to providing a forum in which students might draw out, articulate, and position some of the central claims and aims of their thesis work, this course also aims to instigate careful thought about the written component of the eventual thesis book and the way that this written component might inform or be informed by design work. The assignments of the course are designed to create the infrastructure of a student's eventual thesis book, the elements of any/many book(s). They are not the book content itself, but organize, clarify, define, contextualize, reference, etc. the work contained therein. These elements, for the purposes of this course, are: synopsis (back page/cover flap summary), cover art, bibliography, table of contents, title, index, and appendix/appendices. In this five-week intensive workshop, students will develop and refine the following skills, relating each development to a component of their eventual book via an assignment:

  • Crafting the thesis polemic or narrative
  • Positioning the thesis
  • Contextualizing and formatting the thesis
  • Curating and editing the thesis
  • Persuasively articulating the thesis

Scheduled to be determined with advisor.

Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00

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

Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture

Jacqueline Shaw
BFA, California State University
MARC, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor