2025
DESIGN STUDIO REVIEW SCHEDULE AND OVERVIEW OF STUDIOS
DESIGN STUDIO REVIEWS
FALL’25
REVIEW SCHEDULE
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8
Studio U 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (2 Sections)
ARCH 3520 ARCH 8570
Basic Design I 9:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
LARC 1510
Design Studio III 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. 1:30 p.m. - 6 p.m.
ARCH 8510
Studio V 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 8570
ARCH 2510
ARCH 3520 ARCH 8570 RUD 8600
Landscape Architecture Design Fundamentals 9 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
LARC 2510
MRUD Studio 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Architecture Foundations I 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (7 Sections) Orientation I 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 8010
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3 Regional Design and Ecology 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
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REVIEW SCHEDULE
LARC 3510 LARC 8130
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9 Design Studio III 9 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
ARCH 8510
Architecture + Health Studio 1 p.m. - 6 p.m.
ARCH 8970 ARCH 8950
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 MONDAY, DECEMBER 4
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5 Introduction to Architecture 10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
ARCH 1010 ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Introduction to Urban Contexts 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (7 Sections)
ARCH 3500
Fluid Studio: Deaton 10 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
LARC 4550
Urban Design Studio 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 4540
Urban Design Studio 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. (2 Sections) Synthesis Studio: del Monte + Herin 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 4520
Fluid Studio: Ersoy 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Fluid Studio: Roberts 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Fluid Studio: Harding 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Fluid Studio: Tessmer 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Interdisciplinary Design and Research 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
LARC 8430 ARCH 3510 ARCH 8570
Design StudioI I Basic Design 9 a.m. a.m. - 12:30 p.m. p.m. 10:30 - 12:30 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Architecture Foundations I 1:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Fluid Studio: Genoa
ARCH LARC 8410 1510
Fluid Studio: Barcelona All Day
ARCH 3540 ARCH 8570 LARC 3550
All Day
ARCH 2510 ARCH 3530 ARCH 8570 LARC 3550
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A R C H 3 5 2 0 /8 5 7 0 STUDIO U: CLOG STSTO N , CAL D WEL L
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AR C H 3 5 2 0 / 8 5 7 0 / R UD 8 6 0 0 : M R UD STUDI O - WATS ON
S t u di o D e s c r ip ti on: The studio has focused on the planning and design of a community building along Charleston’s emerging Ecological Corridor, with project sites located across the peninsula. Throughout the semester, a special emphasis has been placed on narrative in architectural development and presentation. Schuyler Clogston Lecturer
A R C H 3 5 2 0 /8 5 7 0: STUDIO U: COR B IT T
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S t u di o D e s c r ip ti on: This studio has worked in conjunction with the non-profit “Sail to Shelter” while exploring second lives for sail boat sails. In keeping with the mission of Sail to Shelter the studio has focused on a circular economy for discarded racing sails while emphasizing applications for emergency sheltering and post-disaster recovery and resiliency. Matthew Corbitt Lecturer
A R C H 3 5 2 0 /8 5 7 0 | ST UDIO V: PAST RE
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S t u di o D e s c r ip t io n: The Fall Architecture + Community Build (A+CB) Studio has continued its partnership with Charleston Parks and Rec, this time on the design and construction of a new pavilion for Stephen Washington Park on James Island. David Pastre
Director of the Clemson Design Center in Charleston
Joel Cadlwell Lecturer
S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: Peninsular Charleston, first settled by non-indigenous people in 1680, has witnessed a radical and continuous redrawing of the water / land boundary to serve human needs and desires. The peninsula has doubled in land area, primarily through filling in tidal marshes, as the city created land for more buildings and infrastructure to support trade. This continues today with elevated roads and buildings over unstable grounds.
Faculty:
Bradford Watson
Director of the Clemson Architecture Center Charleston | Director of Resilient Urban Design Program
Within this time the overall city has grown to over 150,000 and the metro area to 734,000 people. However, the population of the Peninsula has declined from over 60,000 in 1920 to approximately 34,000 in 2022. Since 2010 over 300 single family units and over 30 multifamily projects have created approximately 3,000 units built on the Peninsula with minimal demolition of structures because of the preservation requirements. It is anticipated that 2025 will see the first increase in full time residents on the Peninsula. The implications of filling marsh and a rapid increase in development have a significant impact on the ecology and are disproportionately detrimental to historically black and low-income communities which are being pushed further north and out of the city as the cost of housing has increased threefold over the past 20 years, more than the US average. Sea levels are projected to rise 14 inches by 2050, and tidal flooding events are increasing with a projected occurrence of over 100 days per year by 2040. Within this context, the Army Corps of Engineers is developing a sea wall plan estimated between 1 and 2 billion dollars to manage water while we continue to see a need for affordable and attainable housing. The studio will be split between two sites: the East Central neighborhood and the Westside neighborhood on the peninsula of Charleston to address the following: How can we add the necessary housing and communal space needed to support the growing community in a way that is holistically sustainable and reflects the cultural fabric that defines Charleston? L AR C 1 5 1 0 | BA SI C D ESI GN I
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S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: First-year landscape architecture students launched their final studio project by examining the work of leading contemporary landscape architects. Each student selected a designer, analyzed their portfolio, and produced distilled diagrams highlighting key design elements and principles. Drawing on these insights, students then reimagined the Lee 3 Courtyard, developing designs that respond more thoughtfully to the needs and experiences of its users.
Director of Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Programs
Lara Browning
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A R C H 2 5 1 0 | A RC HITE CTUR E FOUNDATI O N S I
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L AR C 3 5 1 0 / 8 1 3 0 | R EG I ON AL DES I G N AN D EC OLOGY
G u e s t C r itic s : P. Kotanut S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: This studio focuses on designing a Bath House on an Imaginary Site. Bath House is the students’ first architectural design project in which they translate conceptual explorations from the semester’s earlier exercises (P1 and P2) into the resolution of a small architectural program. An imaginary site, created from an abstract image, is turned into a topographic map to conceive of site primarily as a physical material to design with. By assigning cardinal orientations, introducing a water body, and identifying potential views, students construct a set of constraints that extend beyond the given sectional cut. Within this framework, they develop their architectural proposition for a bath house. The main learning objective of the project is to bridge the gap between conceptual design and architectural resolution. Students are encouraged to explore space-making through the tectonic resolutions introduced in earlier exercises. For more information on P1 and P2, see below: P1 – Glueless and Clueless studio: Students develop an abstract landscape using their fingerprints, sections of tree trunks, or other inspirational images, resulting in significant slopes with peak and/or valley conditions. On this foundation, they sculpt indoor, outdoor, and inbetween spaces, both above grade, on grade and below grade while examining accessibility between each. This 3dimensional collage evolves through a weekly sequence, incorporating 1D elements (frame modeling) – 2D elements (complex surfaces created via 3d printing) – 3D elements (mass produced using laser cutting). The project is referred to as ‘Glueless’ because students are not allowed to use glue between these elements, and ‘Clueless’ in the sense that it’s not guided by a pre-conceived idea, but rather by various steps of making. P2 – Think Positive consists of various casting studies, where students explore space making. They study these experimental spaces in various light and shadow conditions to be translated into their Bath House design. L AR C 8 0 1 0 | OR I ENTAT ION I
Berrin Terim
Harrison Floyd
Byron Jefferies
Nicole Coker
Studio Level Coordinator & Assistant Professor
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Lecturer
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S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: This studio will be focusing on the complex terrain of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. As one of the most biologically diverse temperate regions in the world and a place of deep cultural and ecological significance, this landscape provides a rich context for exploring regional-scale landscape design, planning, and ecological thinkHannah Slyce Lecturer ing. Students will engage with the Southern Appalachians as a dynamic region shaped by geologic time, ecological systems, and ongoing human inhabitation, from land stewardship and agrarian traditions to contemporary pressures from tourism, energy infrastructure, conservation, and rural development. Students will explore how different land use typologies and interventions can be utilized for conservation and how this impacts these industries.SC and Henderson County, NC. The project site is west and adjacent to a 55+ residential community and bounded by Coleman Road and E. Bowers Road off N. Highway #25 with views of the surrounding hills and Paris Mountain. AR C H 3 5 0 0 | I N TRODUCTI ON TO UR BAN C ON TEX T
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G ues t C r i ti c s : S. Gampfer | J. Gray | M. Kalapathy | J. Overstrom | P. Danahy Ertunç Hünkar Instructor
Devi Soman
Post Doctoral Fellow
MONICA GRIPKO Lecturer
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S t u di o D e s c r ip ti on: This project reimagines the confluence of the French Broad River and Town Branch Creek in downtown Asheville—a post-industrial riverfront corridor severely damaged by Hurricane Helene. Once a functioning riparian ecosystem, the site has been transformed through industrial use into a fragmented landscape of degraded greenways, David Pearson vacant land, and damaged infrastructure. Drawing on Kathy Poole (Civitas Oecologie), which Lecturer treats urban infrastructure and ecological systems as integrated rather than oppositional, the project develops a framework plan that acknowledges the sites inevitable flooding while creating resilient, ecologically functional landscapes. The design addresses both regional ecological connectivity and public access, transforming damaged infrastructure into systems that support riparian reforestation, treat stormwater from the downtown watershed, provide wildlife habitat, and adapt to future flood events. The design process emphasizes working with natural disturbance regimes rather than against them—treating flooding as a formative process that shapes landforms, planting strategies, and program placement. Key considerations include establishing native riparian plant communities that stabilize banks and provide habitat across multiple scales; creating wetlands and bioswales that filter urban runoff before it reaches the French Broad River; and strategically locating public amenities such as trails, gathering spaces, and pavilions to foster community connection while protecting sensitive ecological zones. The result is an infrastructure that serves both human and ecological needs, demonstrating how post-industrial urban waterfronts can function as dynamic territories where restoration, resilience, and civic life converge. 6
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S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: ARCH 3500 addresses architectural problems related to urban contexts, and studies architectural resolutions that explore the interface between buildings and the public realm for sites. The studio introduces urban design fundamentals, building egress codes, and zoning, and promotes the continued development of architectural, graphic, and oral communications skills. Thematically, the semester focuses on the American workplace. Many Americans spend approximately 1/3 of their lives at work so the benefits of a well-designed workplace are profound. Moreover, the realities and implications of the post-Covid workplace are still being studied and understood. Students will be researching and examining the theme of "work” for the entire semester, starting with research into workplace issues related to health, programming, socialization, etc… ow: An important goal of the studio is for students to research and understand both the contemporary city and the contemporary workplace in order to better design spaces for workers and, at the same time, design buildings that have a positive impact on the urban context in which they are placed. The site for the semester-long project is in Manhattan, NY on 10th Ave. between 26th St. and 27th St. directly adjacent to The Highline.
Dustin Albright
Tim Brown
Assistant Director, School of Architecture
Genoa PIR/Studio Instructor
Kyle Kiser
Peter Laurence
Clarissa Mendez
Julie Wilkerson
Lecturer
Senior Lecturer
Associate Professor
Senior Lecturer
Douglas Hecker Associate Professor
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L AR C 4 5 4 0 | U RBA N DE SIG N STUDIO S t u di o D e s c r ip tio n: This project reimagines Downtown Seneca’s Main Street as a vibrant, pedestrian-first destination that celebrates the city’s identity while preparing it for future growth. Through a redesigned streetscape, transformed urban typologies, and the creation of a new eight-acre Central Park at the heart of downtown, the proposal envisions a cultural landmark that strengthens the small-town character while enhancing recreation, health, and social life. The revitalized Main Street will offer inviting public spaces, active storefronts, flexible gathering areas, and green infrastructure that encourages everyday interaction and healthier lifestyle choices. By reshaping urban blocks, redefining street character, and introducing a signature community park, the project aims to cultivate a dynamic environment that attracts visitors, supports local and professional businesses, and positions Seneca as a model of sustainable, community-centered downtown revitalization. A R C H 1 0 1 0 | I N T RODUCTION TO A R CHITECT U RE
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AR C H 3 5 1 0 / 8 5 2 0 | FL UI D STUDI OS : DEATON G ues t C r i ti c s : D. Vaughn | Cange Partners
S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: This practicum- and service-oriented studio engages with the hillside campus of Zanmi Lasante (Cange Medical Center) in Cange, Haiti’s Central Plateau—the cradle of Partners In Health’s work, led by Dr. Paul Farmer, and a seminal locus for community-based, Lyndsey Deaton Assistant Professor equity-driven healthcare. The campus, initiated in the late 1960s and 1970s as a constellation of small masonry buildings distributed across steep terrain, remains the region’s primary point of care yet faces capacity, circulation, and program adjacencies that strain daily operations. Responding to a request from Zanmi Lasante, the studio will develop a campus plan and a concept design for a new community center. The aim is to clarify site structure, movement, and gathering across grade while creating a civic anchor that supports health education, social services, and everyday community life. This fall effort establishes the strategic framework and community-facing components that will enable a spring Architecture + Health studio to focus on hospital expansion, including surgical facilities and operating rooms.
Hyejung Chang Associate Professor
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G u e s t C r itic s : H.G. Tone | V.G. Monje | J. Wenzel | J. Layer | J. Overstrom | C. Smith S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: The ARCH 1010 studio is structured around a series of exercises that introduce students to design thinking, the iterative process, and other fundamental skills required of designers for success in and beyond architecture school. Sallie Hambright-Belue The students began with an abstract cube design project whose sole purpose was to explore ways a design language could be developed as a three-dimensional form and a series of two dimensional diagrams. Three design languages were assigned to students from a list of ten: soma cubes, crumpled paper, string, packing, soap bubbles, puff pastry, aggregation, viscous fluid, rhizome, and subtractive. The skills introduced were model building, model photography, hand sketching, digitization and documentation, Photoshop editing, Illustrator diagramming, InDesign layouts, and AutoCad drawing. Throughout the process, students were challenged to think creatively and abstractly and then to represent that output in ways that are both beautiful and technically correct. These skills were practiced during the second half of the semester as well. The last half of the semester was spent designing a birdhouse inspired by one of the earlier design languages. Before the design, students researched birds in SC and chose a bird as an inhabitant. Then, students completed a site analysis of Trustee Park. Finally, students developed a design for the birdhouse and its surrounding area on the site catering to both sets of clients: birds and bird watchers.
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Faculty:
Director of Undergraduate Architecture
Harrison Floyd Lecturer
Teaching Assistants: Kylee Arvidson Abby Buskirk Cassy Didelot Bridget Hewitt Vivien Nguyen Maria Rodriguez Kaden Thurmond Lily Wolf
Working in partnership with Clemson Engineers for Developing Communities (CEDC) project managers and Zanmi Lasante liaisons—and given current security conditions, entirely remotely—students will conduct a bilingual visioning process (English/Kreyòl), generate multiple campus alternatives, and refine a preferred concept with the client. Communication will rely on Starlink-enabled sessions and WhatsApp; when correspondence is intermittent, the instructional team will consolidate input to maintain momentum. The studio begins with collective site analysis and campus planning (approximately one-third of the term), then transitions to paired or individual development of the community center concept. Methods emphasize community-engaged design and ethical partnership rather than “aid,” foregrounding local leadership, reciprocity, and long-term stewardship. Technical emphases include patient-flow diagramming with faculty medical guidance, massing and climate analysis appropriate to the Central Plateau, site circulation and access on complex topography, and strategies for natural ventilation, seismic resilience, and dignified, culturally grounded public spaces. Precedent inquiry will examine Haitian exemplars—notably the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais—and regional analogs, with comparative lessons from MASS Design Group and LS3P’s work in resource-constrained contexts. Outside jurors will include collaborators from the HUM engineering team. By treating Cange as a living campus—and by working with, not for, its community—the studio asks how architectural decision-making can expand equitable access to care while strengthening social infrastructure. L AR C 4 5 5 0 | L AN DS CAP E AR C H I TECTUR E EX I T STUDI O S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: The studio consists of undergraduate self-directed Capstone Project. Each student selects a specific site and conducts a thorough site inventory analysis. Each student determines the lens through which “big ideas” are explored and tested. The capstone is the culmination of eight plus semesters of study for landscape architecture students and is their opportunity to demonstrate the breadth of skills and competencies throughout their time at Clemson.
Faculty:
Paul Russell
Associate Professor
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L AR C 4 5 5 0 | LA NDSCA P E A R CHITE CTURE EXIT ST U D IO S t u di o D e s c r ip tio n: Capstone Project guides graduating Landscape Architecture students in synthesizing their knowledge through independent, research-based design projects. In the Fall 2025 session with Fu Li, nine students explored diverse topics, including historic mill reuse design, stormwater management parks, zoo design, industrial bioremediation and community park design, crime and built environment research, participatory design addressing housing precarity, small-town streetscape revitalization, and racetrack-to-park transformation. Through four months of deliberate effort, students developed comprehensive projects that addressed real-world needs, demonstrating their technical proficiency, research rigor, and creative design thinking essential for their future professional practice. A R C H 4 5 2 0 | SY NTHE SIS STUDIO
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AR C H 3 5 1 0 / 8 5 7 0 | FL UI D STUDI OS : ER S OY G ues t C r i ti c s : P. Kotanut | S. Sculco | A. Spence | F. Erdim
S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: "Forbidden Books Library" This studio will work on an alternative library prototype, a library to challenge existing taxonomic systems used to categorize books and knowledge. The project will start by putting Ufuk Ersoy Co-Director of the Ph.D. in Design into question the accepted library typology in architecture in view of how current libraries and the Built Environment promise to serve as ‘detention centers’ and mechanisms to control the spread of knowledge. Put differently, we will critically question what a library is in terms of its role as a public space. The interrogation will evolve by discussing what “a book” and “the act of reading” mean or imply in the age of digital media and AI. Students will build two Wunderkammers – cabinets of curiosities (3D collages) that represent their critical standpoints. The first exercises will ask students to hide a book in another book. Then, students will design a room to hide the book collage they designed during the first exercise. For the third and longest exercise, they will convert the Greenlink Transit Center (approximately 360 ft x160 ft) in Greenville downtown into an urban scenery serving as both a transit facility and the Forbidden Books Library. Throughout the semester, while students will be experimenting with the design techniques of ‘cross-programming,’ ‘spatial injections, and scabs,” they will be introduced to various examples of anarchitecture, critical of “non-places” in Supermodern cities ascribed to communication, circulation and consumption.
Fu Li
Associate Professor
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G u e s t C r itic s : R. Woods | K. Brabham S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: This studio challenged students to synthesize the knowledge and skills gained from previous studios and technical courses into a comprehensive project that showcased their grasp of design research, master planning, building design, sustainability, structural design, mechanical systems, and building detailing. The design process involved addressing community resiliency needs within an historical and environmental context.
Rick del Monte Lecturer
Samuel Herin
Hurricane Hellene, which struck western North Carolina in the fall of 2024, wreaked havoc on the town of Swannanoa. Floodwaters devastated the commercial zone along Highway 70, cutting off access to residential communities north of the Swannanoa River. In the days and weeks after, residents of the Grovemont community instinctively gathered at the town park and library to support one another. Gatherings attributed to the design of converging diagonal roads in E.W. Grove’s 1924, town plan. This experience prompted the Town to initiate discussions on how to be better prepared in the future. Students were tasked with conducting comprehensive research on the site and meeting with members of the Swannanoa Community Council to develop a building program for a 10,000 to 12,000 square foot resilient community center and library to be located on the existing library and playground site just north of Grovemont Park. Based on this information, teams of two students conceived alternative master plan concepts and subsequently presented their final master plans to the community. Subsequently, the same teams conceptualized designs that they then developed into detailed design proposals for the final presentation of the semester. This final presentation was presented to the Swannanoa Community in the form of a single board presentation, which was left with the community to inspire their planning.
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AR C H 3 5 1 0 / 8 5 7 0 | FL UI D STUDI OS : ROB ER TS
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G ues t C r i ti c s : M. Urueta | Hanbury Guests S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: In many ways, Abbeville, South Carolina is a typical southern town. It has the southern charm that defines many of the small towns scattered across the southeast, but it also has some of the same struggles.
Kendall Roberts Lecturer
Over the last 35 years the City of Abbeville, South Carolina has maintained a slight but consistent population decline from roughly 6,000 people in 1990 to around 4,800 people in 2025. The current 10-year comprehensive plan for the city has a goal of returning the population of the city back up to 6,000 people by better leveraging existing assets and through new development. In partnership with national design firm Hanbury and local community leaders, this studio will strive to reimagine the city block that fronts the town square between Trinity Street and West Pickens Street as a more active and positive contributor to the city of Abbeville. Six vacant or underutilized properties on the block have been identified with potential to better serve the city. One of the six properties is an active Hanbury project, and the students will work to redesign the other five. Collectively (Hanbury + Clemson Studio), we will develop a new masterplan for the entire city block as a more active urban center that promotes connectivity for the city as a whole.
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A R C H 3 5 1 0 /8 5 7 0 | FLUID STUDIO: HA R D IN G
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AR C H 3 5 1 0 / 8 5 7 0 | FL UI D STUDI OS : TES S M ER
G u e s t C r itic s : EDAR Board of Directors
G ues t C r i ti c s : S. Peresin
S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: “Emerson Dorsch Artist Residency” Nestled in the holler and spring source of Metcalf Creek in Western North Carolina, the Emerson Dan Harding Dorsch Artist Residency (EDAR) occupies 68 acres of Appalachian mountain landscape that Director, Community Research will serve as both laboratory and canvas for this transformative design studio. Working directly and Design Center (CR+DC) and Professor of Architecture with EDAR's Board of Directors, students will design spaces, structures, and landforms that support the essential rhythm between creative retreat, reflection, and community engagement across a predominantly forested site that encompasses natural meadows, existing agricultural buildings, including a tobacco barn and goat shed, and a practical house with caretaker and resident quarters. The natural spring source provides both a practical resource and a symbolic heart to the residency, while the site's distinctive "C" shaped topography creates amphitheater characteristics that invite architectural intervention.
S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: This studio will be primarily focused on physical making, where a semester-long investigation will result in the production of 1:1-scale experimental prototypes. Students will establish novel proposals that address material performance, fabrication, and manufacturing with an emphasis on composite materials, textiles, and casting.
"The real work of an artist is to build up an experience that is coherent in perception while moving with constant change in its development" — John Dewey's insight from Art as Experience captures the essential purpose of artist residencies and guides this studio's mission to create environments where artists from diverse disciplines can engage in sustained, transformative creative work. Embracing Dewey's understanding that "art, in its form, unites the very same relation of doing and undergoing, outgoing and incoming energy, that makes an experience to be an experience," this Community Research and Design Center partnership will explore the delicate balance between social engagement and solitude through experiential, hands on design build work that honors both the Appalachian landscape and the creative processes it will shelter. Students will develop architectural proposals addressing primary structures and utilitarian elements essential to the residency's operation. The primary structures include a viewing platform for landscape contemplation, individual cabins providing private retreat spaces for residents, a multi-purpose barn serving as a studio, gallery, and event space, and an entrance gate creating a threshold experience and wayfinding system. Utilitarian elements support these main facilities, including a woodshed and other functional structures supporting daily operations, hardscape interventions at "The Source" spring, and fencing with agricultural planning for the goat field, farm, and garden areas. This Community Research and Design Center (CR+DC) sponsored studio emphasizes direct collaboration with EDAR's Board of Directors through site immersion via field visits to Western North Carolina. Students will engage in material exploration, investigating local resources and building traditions while developing multiple forms of representation, including exhibit-style models, drawings, and large-scale construction details. The studio incorporates design-build components with on-site construction experience, providing students a hands-on understanding of the relationship between design intention and material realization.
Faculty:
Lavender Tessmer Assistant Professor
The studio will be organized into a sequence of four parts: first, students will analyze existing precedents of manufactured objects, construction methods, and fabrication techniques. Throughout this study, students will establish a critical view of the interaction of technology, automation, material economy, and performance. Second, students will identify areas of interest framed by the initial precedent analysis which will be used to establish a research agenda in architectural fabrication. Through iterative study models, students will then develop a material and manufacturing process which illustrates the potential of their research agenda. Third, students will transition their material process into a digitally controlled workflow, while subjecting their physical prototypes to various modes of quantitative and qualitative evaluation. Finally, students will produce 1:1-scale prototypes which showcase their research proposals. Throughout the semester, various readings and case studies will be introduced which explore the topics of automation and “resource contexts”. Furthermore, students will be highly encouraged to incorporate their own interests into their choice of research agenda. As needed, tutorials will be provided for the usage of software, tools, and equipment that support projects as they develop throughout the semester. Each project will be accompanied by high-quality documentation, drawings, and written descriptions. Students will work in various combinations of individuals, pairs, and small groups during the first part of the semester, after which they will form final groups based on common interests. L AR C 8 4 3 0 / AR C H 3 5 1 0 / 8 5 7 0 | I N TER DI S C I P L I N AR Y DES I G N AN D R ES EAR C H
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G ues t C r i ti c s : J. Layer, J. Wenzel, B. Armstrong S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: In this studio, students participate in an interdisciplinary project with undergraduate and graduate landscape architecture students. This semester, we will be working on the HEARTH Project: Healthy Environments for Aging, Resilience, Thriving, and Hope. This project is a groundbreaking initiative to rethink how we can create better environments for older adults.
Matt Nicolette Assistant Professor
Sallie Hambright-Belue Director of Undergraduate Architecture
By 2040, one in four Americans will be over 65, marking a significant and unprecedented demographic shift. Yet, millions of older adults face barriers to optimal aging due to unsafe, unaffordable, and fragmented housing and care systems. HEARTH approaches this challenge through a health promotion lens guided by the eight dimensions of wellness, the World Health Organization’s definitions, and current research. The project aims to develop a replicable village model that integrates holistic supportive services and adaptable, age-friendly housing prototypes, empowering older adults to continue to flourish at every stage of life. The studio will also use Gamification to conduct stakeholder engagement and communication. Half of the studio will be spent developing Framework plans in interdisciplinary groups, and the other half of the studio will be spent developing an independent design project. There will be field trips to Charlotte, where the site is located, and to other regional locations.
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A R C H 8 5 1 0 : D E S IG N STUDIO III
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AR C H 8 9 7 0 / 8 9 5 0 | AR C H I TECTUR E + H EALTH STUDI O G ues t C r i ti c s : J.Pangrazio | S. Burnette | A. H. Adams | C. Twohey B. Edwards | M. McClintock
G u e s t C r itic s : G. Schafer | M. Timmins S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: Three Sisters, Many Worlds: Architecture as Living Collaboration The “three sisters” is a planting method traditionally used by Indigenous American Indians and involves cultivating corn, beans and squash together, with each crop benefitting the others. Symbolically, we can extrapolate this system to networks of mutual collaboration, intersectionality, and interdependence that allow each part to develop individually while contributing to the growth of the whole. Such examples could be health – education – agriculture or art – therapy – mental health or water – health – agriculture or storytelling – history – identity, etc.
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Brandon Pass Lecturer
Ulrike Heine
Associate Professor
The main objective of this studio is to imagine architectural strategies that celebrate and interpret Andreea Mihalache the heritage of specific AI/AN nations in the contemporary world without stereotyping and Co-Director of Architecture Programs; Associate essentializing their identities and cultures. The goal of the studio is not to solve the problems Graduate Professor of Architecture faced by AI/AN nations or to offer one-size-fits-all solutions to the broad range of issues that the diverse AI/AN communities are confronted with, but rather to advance hypotheses of growth anchored in the understanding of the past, the reality of the present, and the challenges of the future.
S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: This semester the studio will be examining the design of a healthy, David Allison Scott Rawlings sustainable, and resilient health campus located in Lake Lure, NC which was severely impacted Director of Graduate Studies in Lecturer Architecture + Health by flooding and wind during Hurricane Helene. It will explore the master planning of a community wellness-oriented campus and the design of a critical access hospital to serve the evolving healthcare and health promoting needs of the community and surrounding region now and into the future. How can the design of a wellness campus form the anchor and nucleus of a rebuilt health promoting, sustainable, resilient, and low carbon community? The campus should be planned and designed to serve as a model for resilient, equitable, sustainable, and healthy community planning and design focused on protecting, promoting, and restoring health at the scale of the individuals who receive care while considering, staff, family, community and local/global ecosystems. Proposals for a live-work campus should consider the community as it exists today and as it will evolve into the future while minimizing its environmental impact and carbon footprint.
We ask students to design a community for no 50-100 inhabitants from a specific AI/AN group that comprises, at a minimum, spaces for living, spaces for production, and spaces for leisure. Addressing the reality of climate change and environmental threats is a major concern of the studio. Each team will define their specific programmatic elements based on the geographical, social, cultural, historical and environmental conditions of every location.
The studio will explore the planning and design of the overall health campus focused on the AIA Design for Excellence Criteria: Design for Integration, Design for Ecosystems, Design for Economy, Design for Well-being, Design for Change, Design for Equitable Community, Design for Water, Design for Energy, Design for Resources, and Design for Discovery.
We invite students to explore a variety of urban, suburban and rural settings where environmental, as well as social and cultural challenges require alternative tactics to conventional approaches to housing, energy, and food resources. Sites are located in Alaska, California, South Dakota, Oklahoma and Louisiana.
AR C H 8 4 1 0 | DES I G N STUDI O I
L AR C 2 5 1 0 | LA R CH DE SIG N FOUNDATION S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: This second-year landscape architecture studio, co-taught by Professors Hala Nassar and Kawthar Alrayyan, focuses on “Regeneration and Resilience for an Island Nation” through the Centre for Training and Innovation (CTI) in Eleuthera, The Bahamas. CTI includes the historic Rock Sound Club and features a new, state-of-the-art Sustainable Agriculture Model that incorporates a hurricane-resistant Grow House, hydroponic systems, and a community garden. The campus also offers vocational training programs for high school graduates in various trades, including carpentry, electrical work, construction, hospitality, and culinary arts.
Hala Nassar
Director of Landscape Architecture and Graduate Programs
S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: Greenville Welcome Center and Community Hub This studio project is focused on the development of a Welcome Center and Community Hub located in downtown Greenville, South Carolina. It aims to design a building that serves both visitors and the local community. The Welcome Center acts as a point of arrival, offering visitors information, orientation, and insight into the city of Greenville, and the Community Hub provides residents with spaces for gathering, learning, and collaboration.
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Kawthar Alrayyan Assistant Professor
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Dave Lee
Co-Director of Graduate Architecture; Associate Professor
Chloe Voltaire Lecturer
Students worked at the scale of the city and the neighborhood, addressing the opportunities and constraints presented by a complex urban site. They were asked to integrate indoor and outdoor program elements to create public spaces capable of supporting a variety of activities. The objective of this project is to respond thoughtfully to site conditions, circulation patterns, and the overall relationship between the building and its surrounding urban context.
Within this context, students developed comprehensive design proposals for the regeneration of the CTI campus, grounded in extensive research, site analysis, and an understanding of local needs and opportunities. Their work explores four main conceptual directions: community health and vibrancy, eco-resilient growing landscapes, regenerative landscape and tourism, and education, history, and cultural connections. Set in the beautiful yet vulnerable landscape of The Bahamas, this studio challenges students to address the intertwined realities of climate change, coastal resilience, and community empowerment. The work highlights how design can serve as a catalyst for ecological recovery and cultural continuity in island environments.
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Guest Critics: D. Vespier | A. Montaire | V. M. Savory S t u di o D e s c r ip t i on: American cities struggle increasingly to identify their “Third Place,” common space and buildings where diverse communities naturally coalesce. Italian cities, by contrast, are, at their essence, complex compositions of interrelated Third Places, with spaces where Luca Rocco Tom Savory Studio Instructor all inhabitants regularly gather and interact. Many American librarians see the community library Lecturer as offering solutions to the need for such places. Meanwhile, Italian architect and professor Marco Muscogiuri is concerned that Italian libraries “must become a pleasure” to survive in the digital age and considers it vital that the Italian library “should be a third place where it is pleasant to go and to linger.” In response, on the one hand, to public outcry for new Third Places and, on the other hand, concerns about the relevance of traditional libraries in the information age, community libraries have become increasingly typologically and functionally diverse in both the US and Italy. This project proposes to rethink the project type through exploration of cultural, architectural and typological precedents, addressing a variety of questions designed to focus on Genoa as a laboratory. connections. As libraries morph, splinter and transform into many types of places, what traditional typologies present in Genoa and other Italian cities might best serve as examples for the contemporary community library? What precedents best apply? What type of structure, materials and construction would most successfully and dynamically anchor this new building in its site? How have contemporary Italian architects responded to the historic architecture in their midst, and how do those lessons inform how this project might be approached? Observations of patterns of use of both indoor and outdoor open space, community dynamics, and the texture of the walkable city will inform students’ design solutions.
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AR C H 3 5 4 0 / 8 5 7 0 | L AR C 3 5 5 0 | FL UI D STUDI O: BAR C ELON A S tud i o Des c r i p ti on: The Fall 2025 Barcelona Design Studio project proposes the students to work on the reconversion of the waterfront, by redesigning 3 breakwaters: Bogatell, Mar Bella and Bac de Roda. The infrastructures will be transformed into a Costal Campus with an open Program with the intention of redefining the limit in between the city and the Mediterranean Sea. The program, within a simulation of a competition, is a chance to test the role of the professional practice with compact and brief documentation. Students develop the ability to understand and interpret the complexities as part of the design studio work, giving a response from the urban landscape condition of the city to the building scale level. Throughout the design process, students interact with a complex urban reality and a cultural context different from their own. A travel to get something, but to come back to their place and to see the common things from another perspective. And from this perspective, understand where they are. With this process, students feel they are architects and landscape architects from the first day, building their own voice, not becoming Barcelonan but at least imagining that they belong to the site.
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Miguel Roldan
David Espuña
Mercedes Berengue
Martí Pardo
Director, Barcelona Architecture Academic Coordinator and Center; Design Studio Professor Studio Instructor
Barcelona Architecture Center; Barcelona Architecture Center; Design Studio Professor Design Studio Professor
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HUG O G ÓME Z-TO N E San Agustín National University | Arequipa, Peru
VE RONICA G UZMAN -M O N J E San Agustín National University | Arequipa, Peru Veronica Guzman-Monje is an architect with a Master’s degree in Higher Education and Pedagogical Research, graduate of the Master of Science program with a specialization in Territorial Planning and Urban Development, and current doctoral candidate in Education at the Universidad Nacional de San Agustín. She holds postgraduate diplomas in Territorial Planning and Public Administration (UCSP – UPB) and is a scholarship recipient of the ITEC program in India, specializing in the Sustainable Development Goals. Her research focuses on urban studies and architectural pedagogy; she serves as co-investigator of the XR BIM (FAB) LAB project, is a founding member of Ciudades Urbanismo Colectivo, and works professionally as an independent architect.
ARCHITECTURE/LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE FALL2025 FINAL REVIEWS
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REVIEWERS Architecture Faculty
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Hugo Gómez-Tone is an architect and university professor specializing in architectural design, immersive technologies, and digital fabrication. He holds a PhD in architecture from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, where he received Cum Laude honors for his doctoral thesis “Digital Technologies and the Architectural Creative Process.” Thanks to his research and publications, he has been recognized by the Peruvian government as a RENACYT (National Registry of Science, Technology, and Innovation) researcher. He currently teaches at the Catholic University of Santa María and the National University of San Agustín in Arequipa, Peru. At the latter university, he is the head of the Digital Design and Fabrication Laboratory and the XR BIM (FAB) LAB. He has conducted research in virtual reality aimed at the ideation of spaces. His line of work also includes studies on architectural heritage in the historical context of Arequipa, with an emphasis on documentation through laser scanning and photogrammetry.
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