Architecture Studio

Catalog description

ARCH 6011 is the first studio in our 3.5 year MArch degree program, and as such is an introduction to architectural culture. This studio is an intensive summer course that builds foundational skills and a spoken and visual architectural vocabulary through an iterative project-based design studio. The class covers methods of representation, the analysis of existing architectural projects and asks students to transform their ideas and programmatic requirements into spatial organizations. Starting from a case study, each student goes through a process of extraction, abstraction, exploration, relocation and re-programming, to arrive at their proposal integrated into the urban fabric of New Orleans. The use of diagrams, catalogs, 2D orthogonal representation (plans, sections, elevations), axonometric projections and perspectives of each student's design proposal help underscore the main representation strategies and form a core set of skills and strategies that students will draw from in their subsequent studios.