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Graduate Research Group: Sustainable Urban and Natural Environments

Architecture, along with its allied professions of urban design, landscape architecture, and planning, must be in the forefront of creative thinking about the post-industrial era. Because we make and unmake the world daily through building, we are responsible for a large percentage of resource extraction, depletion, energy use, carbon emissions, waste, and transportation costs. It is projected that buildings consume as much as 60% of the world’s energy divided between our industrial production and buildings for other uses.

The SUSTAINABLE URBAN AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS Graduate Research Group offers an intense exploration of the role that our discipline plays in the making of the next world. This focus requires collaborative association with allied professions and disciplines, reinforced by our close relationship with the Department of Urban and Regional Planning, and through existing Joint Degree Programs. Using seminars, studios, research, design/build and study abroad, faculty and students endeavor to understand the opportunities and responsibilities of creating a more sustainable, healthy, vibrant and resilient world.

 

	Fall 2009	Spring 2010
INTELLECTUAL DOMAIN
TECHNICAL METHODS
RESEARCH STUDIO

 

Cognates

Inclusive Design
ARC 564	Behavior & Space Scott Danford
ARC 592	Ergonomics in Design Ed Steinfeld
Material Culture
ARC 588 STN	The Culture of Objects Hadas Steiner
ARC 594	Structural Forms Joe Dahmen
Situated Technologies
ARC591	Zero Atmosphere Architecture Jordan Geiger
ARC 640	Conditional Form Mark Shepard
Other Cognates
ARC 448/548	Totem Park Design-Build Brad Wales
ARC 354/554	In(ter)vention Shadi Nazarian
ARC 589 LAM	Building, Dwelling, Thinking Jean LaMarche
ARC 489/589 STN	Technology & Space: A History of Modern Architectural Theory Hadas Steiner
ARC 489/589 TAB	Re-Thinking Big Brian Tabolt
ARC 590 SHI	Issues in Urban Design Bob Shibley
ARC 492/595	Architecture & Film Despina Stratigakos
ARC 596 CON	Wearable Media E. Conrad
ARC 486/597	Asia's Sacred Places Jeff Albert
ARC 598 BOH	Ambient Critical Intell Marc Bohlen
ARC 598 RUE	Mapping Embodied Networks T. Rueb
ARC 598 SHP	Media Urbanism Mark Shepard