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CRS_Winter23_ISP
Architectonic Weaving
RISD Independent Study Project (ISP)
Wintersession 2023
RISD Independent Study Project (ISP)
Wintersession 2023
Advisor to MFA Textiles student Ella Son on a month-long independent study project over the Winter. Ella will be working on a textile 'mapping' potentially culminating in a public installation piece of some kind.
CRS_2023_VENICE
Stones of Venice: A Critical Geology
RISD Global Summer Studio
June-July 2023
RISD Global Summer Studio
June-July 2023
This 3-week, 3-credit summer studio critically investigates the "stones" of Venice: brick, Carrara marble, Istrian stone and trachite form the geological crust of the city that experiences regular inundation, material erosion, physical traffic, and salt action. By attending to the space immediately above (and below) Venice’s watermark, this studio flips the perspective on the built environment through a close reading of its ground cover. Students will develop works that represent, document, and reimagine Venice's ground. Looking beyond the touristic gaze, we will be directly engaging the city’s materialites, layers, and proximities to water.
The studio’s final student exhibition and concluding conversation was held at Palazzo Bembo, Venice
Co-taught with Haley MacKeil, printmaker / papermaker and RISD EFS critic.
Collaborator: European Cultural Academy
The studio’s final student exhibition and concluding conversation was held at Palazzo Bembo, Venice
Co-taught with Haley MacKeil, printmaker / papermaker and RISD EFS critic.
Collaborator: European Cultural Academy
CRS_FA22-SP23_THESIS
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Thesis Seminar & Project Studio
RISD Architecture
Fall 2022 / Spring 23
Thesis Seminar & Project Studio
RISD Architecture
Fall 2022 / Spring 23
This course supports thesis students in their research and exploration phase prior to the Spring Thesis Studio. It provides space for the deepening and sharpening of independent, critical thought on urgent questions in architecture.
The course material exists at the intersection of the material (objects, architecture, cities, environments, natural features) and the seemingly immaterial (media, politics, knowledge networks, legal boundaries, economics, infrastructure). While broad in framework, this intersection helps us examine forms and sites through their ‘soft’ relations and values — and to ask what has to change in this picture if we were to imagine a more just, less extractive future.
[Advised 9 theses]
The course material exists at the intersection of the material (objects, architecture, cities, environments, natural features) and the seemingly immaterial (media, politics, knowledge networks, legal boundaries, economics, infrastructure). While broad in framework, this intersection helps us examine forms and sites through their ‘soft’ relations and values — and to ask what has to change in this picture if we were to imagine a more just, less extractive future.
[Advised 9 theses]
CRS_FA21-SP22_CLIMATETIME
BUILDING CLIMATE TIME
Thesis Seminar & Project Studio
RISD Architecture
Fall 2021 /
Spring 22
Thesis Seminar & Project Studio
RISD Architecture
Fall 2021 /
Spring 22
Just as infrastructure seems “invisible until it fails,” climate change tends to be imperceptible until it erupts in flashpoints of disaster. The recent swell of floods, droughts, heatwaves, and fires around the world momentarily make this plain. But anthropogenic change and its systemic inequalities are actually long-drawn processes of extraction and accumulation, inscribed into that liminal crust of the earth we call the built environment. What does climate change?
This year-long thesis sequence calls for designers to think beyond the conventional timescales of a building project. The 24/7 climate-controlled interior, the 30-year mortgage, the 100-year floodplain zone, the just-in-time order of Miesian marble... These obsolescing forms of building time may no longer hold in a wetter, warmer future. The criteria for what constitutes architectural work and what makes a building must change — after Virilio, in order to design the ship, one also designs the shipwreck.
This year-long thesis sequence calls for designers to think beyond the conventional timescales of a building project. The 24/7 climate-controlled interior, the 30-year mortgage, the 100-year floodplain zone, the just-in-time order of Miesian marble... These obsolescing forms of building time may no longer hold in a wetter, warmer future. The criteria for what constitutes architectural work and what makes a building must change — after Virilio, in order to design the ship, one also designs the shipwreck.
CRS_SP22_MODELS
MODELS
Graduate Representation Course
RISD Architecture
Spring 2022
Graduate Representation Course
RISD Architecture
Spring 2022
This course centers around the digital model as a multivalent medium for architectural discourse, and as representation of built form. It approaches the model as a sample, system, and database, and continually interrogates translational relationships between model, drawing, image, and physical object.
The contemporary digital model is delimited and constrained by architectural software. This course recognizes the importance not only of skills across digital modeling software—from Rhino to Building Information Modeling (BIM)—but also skills to manipulate, undermine, link, automate and hack the media that dominate the discipline of architecture.
The contemporary digital model is delimited and constrained by architectural software. This course recognizes the importance not only of skills across digital modeling software—from Rhino to Building Information Modeling (BIM)—but also skills to manipulate, undermine, link, automate and hack the media that dominate the discipline of architecture.
