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Architecture has long been defined by the visible and structural components or materials that constitute buildings. This studio focuses on various methods, tools and techniques that consider architecture as spatial…
GI21 – Andy Ku
Graphic Intervention
This Architecture Directed Design Research engages studies on graphic agents and agencies that influence architectural thinking and design approaches. The graphic medium has a historical and developmental relationship in architecture….
793b expo main image – Lisa Little
Critical Drawings, No Pens
Directed Design Research enables students to dedicate a year of work to a single critical position. In the ‘Critical Drawings, No Pens’ section of the research (thesis prep) seminar, students…
composite image – Wesley Jones
Innovation Through Mastery
This studio looked at how continuity is logically necessary for architectural meaning. Consequently, in this section the precedents were not simply convenient launching pads or punching bags, but positively essential…
Composite_Figures_GvO_GF42 – Geoffrey von Oeyen
Composite Figures: Design Innovation Toward Resilient Housing Communities in Los Angeles
The graduate directed design research students in Geoffrey von Oeyen’s “Composite Figures” thesis studio are exploring the creative application of multidisciplinary Fiber Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite material innovation towards housing…
default – Yaohua Wang
Directed Design Research
Fourteen speculative projects from fourteen curious minds, seeking to reimagine the boundary of architecture.
21_793_Tong_800px – J. Yolande Daniels
Utopic and Crisis Forms
This architecture thesis framework draws inspiration from the work of architects that sought to re-envision society in visionary projects in response to historic social crises. The thesis projects began with…