Description
DS1040 | 4A Studio | AMIGAA: Positions (was City Operations: Architecture in Critical Settings)
The final studio in the core sequence introduces students to independent thinking and integrative design through a small scale project. With one foot in core and one pointed towards thesis, the pedagogy is based on culminating all previous core studios by charging the students with taking a disciplinary position on the role of mass, interiority, ground, aperture, or surface articulation (AMIGAA), or possibly relations across all five. The studio, as a whole, works on the same project and site with different trajectories according to the framework laid out by each instructor. This provides a platform for students to see how the same problem can be seen through different lenses, from the conceptual to the phenomenological. Precedence research is used as a vehicle for understanding their latent diagrams in relation to AMIGAA as well as cultivating a genealogy-based ethos. Representationally