A look into the spring semester studio projects for graduate year 1.


A three-person perspective on OSU, UIC, UMICH and UK’s conference in Ohio.

Stewart Hicks’s studio takes on furniture to tackle the issue of character and building type. We are critical of Philip Johnson’s AT&T building in that he didn’t create a new building type.

Almost as good as the original. But wait there’s more!

Overall the scenarios were well thought out, but our diagrams didn’t do those scenarios justice.

The ideas of our rights and wrongs have been refined to be as clear as possible. The hope is that each exercise is clear enough so that an eight year old and an eighty year old could understand. Below are some of the drawings we’ll be seeing later today.

“…rigorous work is still in progress in search of a new form of the mall, but rather a vision of a new mall urbanism.”

As Thomas would say, “Make it exactly wrong.”

Issue Five, The Issue of Identity, went to the press just this evening! Copies will be available starting Wednesday of next week.

The Architecture and Design League of the Art Institute of Chicago hosted a lecture by Craig Dykers, founding partner of Snøhetta Design of Oslo, Norway and New York City, NY on March 6, 2012. If for some reason you have been living in a cave and haven’t heard of them, please take a moment to Google “Oslo Opera House”, “Alexandria Library” and “9/11 Memorial Museum”. All caught up?