A Culture of Making

A Culture of Making is a required studio following Arch 500. The studio introduces key issues of material culture in architecture while suggesting the rich fields of disciplinary and interdisciplinary inquiry that such issues engage. Specifically, the studio introduces students to the essential and formative contribution that structural and material issues bring to an understanding of architecture while more broadly, the term’s work is grounded in an understanding that the varied cultures of construction have direct implication on subsequent cultures of inhabitation. Recognizing that the discipline of architecture is both expansive in its cultural engagements while highly specific in its material resolution, the studio addresses such a breadth of purpose via focused inquiries regarding scale, force, material property, geometry, assembly, and manufacturing process.

Prerequisite: ARCH 500 or the equivalent.

Course Instructors: Architecture Design Faculty