PROFESSOR
Mick Kennedy
STUDIO THEME
“Coming Together”
We have come together again. We are sharing space once more.
Reemergent, with eyes blinking, into the world of others, in the place that we are. New challenges await us where our design skills and values can make a difference.
The studio revisited the study of patterns of living that inform increments of housing.
We examined patterns of occupation that shape rooms, and the patterns of activity that shape the increments of rooms: doors, windows, thresholds. We studied the patterns of daily life—sleeping, bathing, cooking, eating—that create the places we call our homes. Student projects demonstrate how this focus can aid in bringing us together to form community.
The studio explored patterns in the craft of building: patterns of materials and of assemblies. The materials we select and bring together reflect how we value labor and our environment, and how we engage our traditions and future technologies. Student designs promote the sensible use of our resources which evince our values, embody our ambitions and provide models for sustainable and equitable lives and communities.
The student work provides examples of how place shapes the architecture of housing, and how housing shapes the life within and the life without—the communal life that binds us together. We are together again. And taking action.
Reemergent, with eyes blinking, into the world of others, in the place that we are. New challenges await us where our design skills and values can make a difference.
The studio revisited the study of patterns of living that inform increments of housing.
We examined patterns of occupation that shape rooms, and the patterns of activity that shape the increments of rooms: doors, windows, thresholds. We studied the patterns of daily life—sleeping, bathing, cooking, eating—that create the places we call our homes. Student projects demonstrate how this focus can aid in bringing us together to form community.
The studio explored patterns in the craft of building: patterns of materials and of assemblies. The materials we select and bring together reflect how we value labor and our environment, and how we engage our traditions and future technologies. Student designs promote the sensible use of our resources which evince our values, embody our ambitions and provide models for sustainable and equitable lives and communities.
The student work provides examples of how place shapes the architecture of housing, and how housing shapes the life within and the life without—the communal life that binds us together. We are together again. And taking action.