Our ambition is to immerse students in the broad culture of construction we believe to be at the center of architectural making, both in its historical and in its projective dimensions. We seek to engage with possible syntheses of form, structure, and materiality actualized in buildings. We are not only interested in work that pushes the limits of form by the use of new materials; we also aspire to reexamine the potential of traditional materials while taking into consideration their history. These projects operate within a wide chronological territory that includes, for example, the potential of brick in architecture from its origins in Assyrian glazed brick construction and its unprecedented elevation as a noble building material by the nineteenth-century architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel; the formal possibilities afforded by contemporary computer-aided modular stacking; the interaction between structural frame and surface theorized by Gottfried Semper and made apparent in ornamental surfaces; and the architectural potential of structural assemblies and geometric patterns found in nature.
May 7, 9:00 AM
- Gürel Barlas Aydın
Sustainable Hotel Design in Bodrum: Jenga Typology in Pursuit of Sustainability - Christian Oanda Nyariki
The East African Aesthetic: Exploring Traditional East-African Design Elements - Aditya Surendhra
Fiber Architecture: High Tech Material Exploration of CFRP - Sukhmann Aneja
Alternative Shelters: Immortalizing the NYC Sidewalk Shed
Additional Reviewers:
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Terrance Goode
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Sinéad MacNamara
May 7, 1:00 PM
- Demitri Gadzios
Re-making the Technosphere: Spaces of Material Consciousness - Alexandros Pissarides
Framing an Industrial Dystopia: The Assembly Line Experience - Jacob D Garcia
Architectural Poetics of Movement: Natural Energy Inputs Powering Performative Structures
Additional Reviewers:
- Lori Brown
- Lawrence Chua
