Practice Beginning
Practice and rehearsal go hand in hand, yet formats to rehearse means and methods…
Topic Practice
Balanced between concept and realization, design practice exposes the connections between the design imagination and the space in which it operates. By critically studying issues of practice, designers imagine new methods to advance their influence and to intervene in the world.
Innovation in Project Delivery
Mark R. Johnson
Project delivery—the organizational, legal and economic arrangements by which society produces its…
Frameworks of Contemporary Practice
Paul Nakazawa
Purpose of the course: 1. Examine architecture through the optics of the…
Contemporary Practices in Urbanism
Mark Johnson, Christopher Glaisek
This course will provide an in-depth study of the range of practice issues, methods and…
Urban Design Trajectories: Perspectives on Practice
Stephen Gray
Urban Design, as a professional discipline, has not existed for nearly as long as…
Design Competitions
Jerold S. Kayden
Design competitions are increasingly used to procure design of, well, just about anything you can…
The Architect in History: The Evolution of Practice from the Renaissance to the Present
Jay Wickersham
This course examines the history of architectural practice, focusing on the changing role and definition…
Issues in Architectural Practice and Ethics
Maryann Thompson, Carl Sapers
This course, for students in the fourth semester of the MArch I program, examines basic issues…