Architectural Design III

6 units

The third year of the core studio sequence examines interactions between architecture and society through the design of a large-scale project. Key concerns include architectural agency, community activism, and socioeconomic justice. This year emphasizes voice as students adopt their own conceptual position relative to architecture history, theory, and culture via the iterative development of form, geometry, space, and aesthetics. More specifically, this studio focuses on engagement with tectonic assemblies, public space, and programming in a series of design projects that include: (1) a precedent analysis, (2) a detailed study of the project's urban context, and (3) a mixed-use vertical structure. Exercises explore problems of grids and frames, urban and architectural space, and programmatic interrelationships. Architectural Design III is the fifth in the five required core studios in the undergraduate architecture program. All students initially register for section 01. The studio coordinator will assign students to sections at the start of the semester and students will change their section registration at that time.