CLAY

Student Work

INSTRUCTOR: Andrew John Wit

Level: Undergraduate / Graduate Research Seminar

DESCRIPTION: This course investigates, speculates on, and designs for the integration of emerging architectural tools and materials for making and representation through research, discussions, tool/material/method specific projects and representational studies.

Lectures and readings in this course outline and examine cutting edge design tools being explored and tested within the discourses of architecture and design.

This semester will focus on 3D printed ceramics but may also frame the discipline through other emerging tools such as large-scale 3D/4D printing, robotics, AR/MR/VR and AI. Projects will be speculative and focus on the design, representation, and development of design processes necessary to produce small-scale artifacts, and large-scale architectural façade systems utilizing emerging tools such as ceramic 3D printing.

Projects and research will be presented through the development of a graphic language developed in a representation software such as Adobe Illustrator.