Time for change Since 2004, when DesignIntelligence began ranking undergrad and grad programs separately, Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design has held top honors for its M.Arch. program. So it is fascinating to consider how the University of Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning nudged Harvard out of No. 1 this year. In […]

-Parametric model study of massing and integration of program into site and building. -JB

–Human interactions within the domestic environment may be reduced to ones interaction with horizontal planar elements and the activities which occur around them within the dwelling. Re-imagining the domestic environment through the flexibility of the “step”, the current trajectory for the project is centered around the domestic dwelling as a series of planar elements where […]

speculative study of urban field condition operating in toyo ito’s taichung metropolitan opera project -jp

the ‘wave pavilion’ by macdowell.tomova acts as both a pragmatic and conceptual testing ground, leveraging scripting and advanced digital fabrication toward the expansion of disciplinary modes of design and construction. the pavilion operates as a piece of landscape furniture, an occupiable space of gathering and leisure. set on the grounds of the university of michigan, […]

-Geodetic address: 41° 51′ 20″ N , 87° 36′ 53″ W -Political address: Chicago, Illinois, United States, North America 2010 University of Michigan Graduate Comprehensive Studios -Blog

-‘Botanical Garden/Research lab across from SCIArc in Los Angeles. It acts as a artificial reef for plants. The movement along with the plants are agents of its own destruction, slowly adding a crippling weight and destabilizing the structure.’