PRACTICE is a required, 3-credit introductory seminar that helps students define their place and responsibilities within the practice of architecture today. It investigates both what it means, and what it could mean, to be an architect in a rapidly evolving economic, political, social and creative context. The focus is on our obligations to ourselves as professionals, to the networks of associations we build over time, to the discipline, and to the greater social and political whole.
Our work is organized as a series of modules exploring expanding ripples of considerations, skills and responsibilities --beginning with the individual and concluding with the place of architecture in the broader context of society. The assignments and work products are generally front-loaded in the semester, with the final weeks focused on strengthening your ability to articulate, in a professional manner, the relevancy of your own design work to the broader discipline.
- Instructor: Randolph Ruiz