The remaining studios focus on significant concerns in architecture. They are vertical in that they include students in different class years, and they present choices of project and faculty. Among these is the design development studio in which a prior project is subjected to detailed structural, mechanical, and construction materials considerations. History and Theory A required four-course sequence presents the diversity of architectural works and ideas relative to the contexts within which architecture emerges, and to key historical and theoretical issues in the field. Technology and Building Science Technological issues are introduced from the beginning as essential to the conception and making of architecture.
New technologies can be the generatives of form and inhabitable space.
Integration of technological considerations is central to many of the studios with a focused emphasis on the integration of building technologies and the act of making in a required upper level design development studio. Computing Computer competency is central to the future of the professional practice of architecture. From the first year, students are able to expand their knowledge and skill through course work with key computing concepts and applications in some cases integrated within the design studios and through independent experimentation in the many computer labs at the school and Institute. Apart from well supported general purpose labs, the school is installing high-end multimedia environments within the many design studios. Students have access to the latest in 3-dimensional design software, virtual reality programming tools, and video and multimedia production hardware to investigate the value of these technologies to critical design practice.