ARTT 006C. Studio Architecture I: Architectures of Air, Environments in Movement

This vertical studio introduces architecture as a method of research and design. We will consider architecture's mediation of the air we breathe and the way this mediation implicates ecological, social and economic movements that are critical to communities and people. We will begin with contemporary and historical case studies of design projects that take air as a subject. Through readings, analytical drawing and model-making, we will gather a collective understanding of how these projects construct ideas and arguments about the air. By mid-semester, each student will use the expertise and point of view developed through this research to draft a proposal for a design intervention for the Swarthmore campus or the greater Philadelphia region. Interventions will be diverse in terms of how they relate to scale, site, time and program, reflecting each student's perspective. Expectations for each project will be calibrated in collective, on-going discussions. The second part of the semester will focus on developing the proposed interventions through an iterative process that could include drawing, full-scale fabrication, model-making or writing. As a vertical studio, collaborative teaching and learning will be encouraged. By the end of the semester, each student will be able to draw on existing skills -- and learn how to identify and develop new ones -- to work architecturally and communicate a design intention.

 
Humanities.
1 credit.
Fall 2023. Devabhaktuni.
Catalog chapter: Art and Art History: Art  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art


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