ARCH 201 Spring 2010

The design of buildings or communities of advanced complexity. Each section deals with a specific topic such as housing, public and institutional buildings, and local or international community development.

Elasticity Inquiries

The studio was initiated the research with a trip to Switzerland where key examples of innovative pneumatic structures such as Tensairity were analyzed. Exposure to some seminal precedents in structural innovations throughout Switzerland's unique heritage were studied seeing Le Corbusier's and Max Bill's oeuvre amongst others.