Arch 509 - Topics in Advanced Technology
This graduate research seminar examines advances in the technologies that affect the practice of architecture. The course examines leading technologies, processes and applications and their role in building design and production. The course will navigate the broad and varied materials related to advanced technologies in architecture by focusing on specific applications for specific projects.
The objective of this section of Arch 509 is that the student will develop a working familiarity with an advanced building practice, a particular fabrication technique, a building system, new material, or other intriguing technology topic. Students, in consultation with the instructor, will self-select topics for independent guided research. The range of suitable topics is sufficiently broad and flexible to encompass several notions of “technology”. Once the research topic has been approved by the instructor, the student’s work will take the form of a directed research project. Each student will schedule one-on-one consultations with the instructor to help guide the project to conclusion.