Archology
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Studio work in the BFA in Architectural Design culminates with a Capstone Senior Project. In this final studio, students engage projects from a range of topics related to the body. Here, “body” refers to both the human corporeal body and the human social body (or bodies), as constructed and framed through the material conditions of architecture, urban fabric and interior space. A broad and deep study informed by research and analysis begins the semester and critically informs design. Topics range from urban scale interventions where designers are increasingly engaging the social, political and economic realities of the city as generative content for creating place, to the study of particular building types that provide students with tangible opportunities to engage the important issues that frame contemporary architecture.
Studio work in the BFA AD culminates with a Capstone Senior Project, Studio 6. It synthesizes prior learning from the Architectural Design program with a specific focus on the relationship between architecture as environmental and material construction and the well-being of the human and global ‘body’. The work combines capabilities in studio, theory, history, and technology within situated historical, cultural, political and social frameworks.
The planet is at an environmental, social, and political tipping point. Two years in and we are still confronted by a pandemic, an economic realignment, and the constant, underlying, existential threat of climate change. While the pandemic has created immediate threats to all of our lives, it has especially targeted those whose social and environmental living conditions are chronically substandard; climate change disadvantages underserved, impoverished communities more immediately and profoundly. In this studio, students redress some of the environmental justice issues that have been an historic problem in the neighborhood of Red Hook, Brooklyn through the lens of a new public middle school -- New York City's first Harbor Middle School. Examining the scale of the classroom, the school, the city and the planet, the studio considers new possibilities for the future of learning and growing within the context of health, access and community.
Studio work in the BFA AD culminates with a Capstone Senior Project, Studio 6. It synthesizes prior learning from the Architectural Design program with a specific focus on the relationship between architecture as environmental and material construction and the well-being of the human and global ‘body’. The work combines capabilities in studio, theory, history, and technology within situated historical, cultural, political and social frameworks.
How will each New York City block adapt to the three crises of our time: pandemic, climate, and social equity? This studio investigates the future architectural possibilities of the common New York City Block for this century. Each student will choose a block in New York City based on various criteria as a site of analysis and redesign. By common, we mean both ordinary, but also as in a Commons, a space a group of people share. The architecture of human health, social justice and environmental sustainability is seen, in this studio, as more easily achieved within the shared space of a block, rather than limited to an individual building on a parceled site. The studio will investigate the architecture of a New York City block from the outside-in and from inside-out, examining environmental and ecosystem health and social justice of the block in relation to the city, and how exterior and interior spaces can provide for collective activity outside of the home.
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