Architectural Design Summer Studio: Envi

This architectural design summer studio course explores modes of visualization, technologies of mediation, and

spaces of environmental and material transformations. These explorations will be used as catalysts for

architectural analysis and design experimentation.

Introducing design methodologies that allow us to perceive and reshape spatial and material interactions in new

ways, the studio will focus on how architecture negotiates, alters or redirects multiple forces in our world:

physical, cultural, social, technological, political etc. The semester progresses through two projects that examine

unique atmospheric, spatial and urban conditions with the aid of multimedia visual techniques; and that employ

design to develop critical and creative interventions at different scales. Learning analog and digital drawing

techniques, physical model-making, and multimedia image production, students will work in the studio and

digital architecture lab. The course includes site visits and field trips in the city.

NOTE: The course may be used to fulfill major requirements. It can replace: ARCH 2101 Architectural Design:

Environment Mediations OR ARCH 2103 Architectural Design: Systems and Materials. OR students may use it as

an additional optional studio course to complement their overall studies in the major. Preference will be given

to students who have completed one studio course or Design Futures course.