UG1 — Student Show 2025

UG1

UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGNUG1 - ARCH 312 - FALL 2024

COORDINATOR

PROFESSORS

Zain Abusier , Collin Garnett , Irene Hwang , Yojairo Lomeli , Jono Sturt , Anca Trandafirescu

This year’s UG1 studios were assigned the following eight house precedents to study:

Casa Poli (Pezo von Ellrichshausen)
Fisher House (Louis Kahn)
Floating House (MOS)
House in Sakuradai (Go Hasewaga)
House N (Sou Fujimoto)
Peninsula House (Sean Godsell Architects)
S. House (SAANA)
Tanikawa House (Kazuo Shinohara)

Each student produced three analytical design projects to examine their precedent critically. Armed with this understanding, the fourth and final project, seen in this year’s show, was a redesign of the original house imagined in a North American contemporary context. Though the studio’s attitude toward historical precedent was not one of direct quotation, the redesigned project is intended to be in a knowing and creative dialogue with its predecessor, and therefore, with the many predecessors before that. Ultimately, the studio posits that relevant architectural invention, and newness itself, is intrinsically tied to history.

“...that great poem, which all poets, like the cooperating thoughts of one great mind, have built up since the beginning of the world.”

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

STUDENTYinyu Bi
PROFESSOR

Zain Abusier

STUDENTMia Chen
PROFESSOR