A6850 Urban Design Studio II: Mojdeh Baratloo, Coordinator; Sandro Marpillero, Justin G. Moore, Angela Chen-Mai Soong, Frank Ruchala Jr., with Ward Verbakel; Trent Lethco, Nadereh Nouhi, Daniel Wiley. The second Urban Design Studio accepts the premise that the practice of Urban Design is interdisciplinary; and the result of a kinetic relationship between architecture, public policy, and the economy; operating at scales that often exceed the limits of a specific site, a city, or a region. The studio collectively examines the influence exerted by these factors, and the immense impact they have in the making of an urban environment – and by extension its public and private spaces and the perceived quality-of-life of urban situations. The studio’s topical emphasis considers the complex dynamic between “Energy, Economy, and Ecology” of New York State and its cities. Students focus on semester-long projects, addressing the potential of both the cities and the State as a whole to successfully maintain viable communities with sustainable resources. The studio’s fundamental pedagogy advocates for simultaneous, collaborative research and development of design concepts as generative ingredients of new and alternative ways through which viable, vital urban environments are understood and conceived. 11
MS ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN