First Semester Architecture Core: PROJECT

STU 1101 Subject & Catalog Number

Description

PROJECT is the first core studio of the four-semester sequence of the MArch I program. With a multiplicity of references, PROJECT may refer to fundamental modes of architectural representation, the mapping of the human subject in the larger objective context, or a conceptual foray into territory yet unknown.

A series of focused and intense design exercises requires students to investigate fundamental disciplinary issues of architectural thought, practice, and representation. As the introductory studio in the professional degree program, the curriculum addresses the varied educational backgrounds of incoming MArch I candidates. Students are encouraged to leverage their varied expertise in the sciences, humanities, and other disciplines to find provocative and unexpected motivations of architectural form and spatial thinking. Similarly, students are encouraged to draw parallels between studio and concurrent coursework in representation, history and theory, and the environmental sciences. The studio is a space for iterative exploration, and experimentation across various mediums such as drawing and modeling (both digitally and physically) will be required.

Prerequisites: Enrollment in MArch I program.