ARCH 672 - PROPOSITIONS
FALL 2024PROJECTS
Adam Bissell, Megan Kortenhof, Vanessa Lekaj - Perceptive Lands
Yunyi Fan, Yesha Madhubhai Malaviya, Yanqing Yang - Reclaiming Morenci : Morenci Monument
Mavericks, the Multitude, and the Mesa
Within the cannons of western mythology and societal practice(s), the landscape construct of the desert has been positioned as a place in which outcasts, heretics, and visionaries have been voluntarily and involuntarily displaced in order to repent, reconcile, and imagine possible worlds. In America, since the time of its settler colonization, the desert has also been a territory of extreme cultural experimentation – consumer, technological, military, utopian, environmental…
At the geological edge where the Sonoran Desert meets the Colorado Plateau, this studio will engage three subjects in search of a social, conceptual, material and systemic proposition:
(i) Mavericks: renegade disciplinary and adjacent figures whose work and ideas have defined trajectories of design possibility within this terrain.
(ii) the Multitude: cultural groups assembled and formed within the political andsocio-economic landscape of actors and agents that shape the southwest.
(iii) the Mesa: constructed landforms and landscape constructs that structure potential engagement with the land and its species.
The semester will introduce students to a range of design research methodologies and projects that will structure dialog within the studio and enable students to position and develop team-based propositions catalyzing individual obesssions across a range of scales within the frameworks and territory set set forth for the studio.