This seminar will ask students to consider how we “see” new technologies as they enable a territorial expansion of the architect - that is how we design buildings within the larger global environment we co-habit, particularly through an increasingly ecological basis. For 2025, the course will engage novel construction technologies, including modular and other off-site systems, and study how these challenge a conventional design process and enable a more downstream involvement of architects. Through a series of lectures and readings, students will have the opportunity to consider building, both as a subjective act and an objective consequence of new architectural workflows within the larger framework of a built environment confronting climate change, material performance, and global supply chains.
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