This studio is organized in the context of the Azrieli Global Studio program, a new collaborative initiative between McGill University in Montreal, Tel Aviv University and the Technion. The common theme for the thematic studio at the three schools concerns the architecture of extreme environments.
Canadian students from McGill University will work on a site located at the Dead Sea and will visit us at the end of February. Students from our studio will work in the city of Shefferville, Canada that is a remote Inuit city located in the subartic region of Northern Canada. The Global Studio Program is sponsored by the Azrieli Foundation. The studio will work toward the production of an exhibition of the projects that will be on display in Montreal, Tel Aviv, and Haifa. This exhibition and final project will be sponsored by the Azrieli Foundation. This is therefore a unique opportunity to design a project in collaboration with international schools and scholars.
The studio will be divided in three stages. The first stage will focus on a research exercise that will provide an understanding of the geography, culture, and social context of the Canadian Northern territories. This first stage will be produced individually. The second and third stages of the project will be produced in teams of two. The studio will accept a maximum of 16 students.
Instructor: Associate Prof. Aaron Sprecher
Winter Semester | Amado Building – Architecture & Urban Building Lecture Hall 234
This course proposes to address the contemporary nature of the relation between design, technology, and the sciences across a series of seminal essays and manifestos that have influenced architecture since the postwar period to today. The structure of the course follows a series of topics that will be developed on a weekly basis. Thus, the content of the course will not be based on a chronological order but a selected list of critical essays that question the nature of information in architecture, the role of the architect, the definition of the architectural representation, the status of the design object among others. This course aims to develop a theoretical discourse capable of supplementing technical knowledge in architecture. In short, Architecture in Formation will provide the possibility to generate a theoretical standpoint while engaging with the act of designing.