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Designing for a New Collective Good – Inclusive Alternatives of Urban Value Creation
Questioning the status quo of urban value creation through the agency of design, this studio attempts to design components for an expanded notion of what could constitute a collective good….
6a0765195c2fbb52832af507e84c4c46 – Mary Casper
The New New Realists: Building the Social Imaginary
Since the advent of photography in the early 18th century, architects have had to contend with “realism” – a promise of objectivity that made it possible to substitute a singularly…
thumbnail_image – Hadrian Predock
Life/Work Practice
Our 502 degree studio section extends the discourse developed in the 501 seminar into discursive and polemical positions related to life-practice (live/work) speculations, ultimately manifested in the design of life/work…
Haas online Expo image 21 – Eric Haas
Unholy Alliances, Alchemical Processes and Black Box Magic
We transform quality into quantity all the time, assessing value through observation and judgment and mechanistically translating it through a benchmarking protocol. That rubric is itself predicated on a system…
Arlit Uranium Mine – Marcos Sanchez
Proving Ground: UNESCO’s Laboratories
Cover Photo: Arlit uranium mine adjoining Air and Ténéré World Heritage Site, Niger (Maxar Technologies) This studio examined the international holdings and architecture of UNESCO, whose World Heritage Sites program…