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Spring 2020 Advanced Studios Announced

On the first day of Spring 2020, students in the Advanced Studios get to choose which studio they’d like to join for the semester. It’s just as nerve-wracking for the instructors who have to “sell” their interests in the hope of attracting the best students! Below are the Advanced Studios that are being offered in Spring 2020. See the action in our Lottery Day video!

 

Civic Hall, a Palace of, for, and by the People: A Community Engagement Center on Cooper Square
Jacob Alspector

 

Type Trees
Kelly Bair

 

Project Miami
Alessandra Cianchetta

 

Vienna: Laboratory of the Apocalypse
Timothy M. Collins

 

Towards an Archaeology of the Future: The Pine Street African Burial Ground
Jerome Haferd

 

Independent Projects Studio
Bradley Horn

 

Playtime: Weaving in Architecture
Jane Kim

 

City Hall: A Story About Time and Place
Fran Leadon

 

Bio-designed Objects
Frank Melendez

 

Blind Faith: Experiencing Design in a Digital World
Julie Nelson

 

Design<>Disruption: Architecture in the Age of Acceleration
Viren Brahmbhatt

 

In Advanced Studios, students from MS Arch, third-year M Arch I, and fourth- and fifth- year B Arch explore design together and address research areas determined by the faculty. Emphasis is placed on design research and empowering students to identify and define design problems, establish evaluative criteria, analyze solutions, and predict the effectiveness of implementation. For all but the Independent Projects Studio, assignments happen on the first day of class, Lottery Day, with presentations by each studio instructor followed by an online ballot.

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