It’s way too easy to get excited about masters programs in architecture, they have so many crazy courses. The elective presentation today was fantastic. Soooo many different paths in design, so many choices. More classes than I have time for. Actually, I’m not taking a single elective class this semester (I blame poor planning in undergrad) but I stayed for the presentations anyways.
Besides the studio, there are two main workshops, solar decathlon and digital building. The decathlon kids are finally closing in on completion and Lars (of NOX) is instituting part two of his digital building workshop to supplement the Options III studio. He’s also offering a class that looks remotely like highschool yearbook. They’re recruiting for students proficient in “illustrator, photography, and editing” to put together his latest book – ‘R & Design no. 1 – Uniformity &Variability’.
Other interesting classes were Augenbroe’s new Web 2.0 – about the emergence of a more ’social’ internet (think Facebook and MySpace) and its relationship to how an architecture firm might both share knowledge and organize itself internally. And then Gamble’s always-a-classic Public Space seminar, which I will take sometime before I graduate. The website is fun, it has lots of links to various situationalist websites, voyeuristic sidewalk cams, spike lee videos and backyard bubble cams.
So, other than the fact that I can’t actually take anything other than what’s required, it all looks really good! Maybe its just my rose colored aviators, but the pickings seem to cover a larger variety of topics, more in-depth, this time around than usual.
