2022 Design Pedagogy Award
11–12–2022

2022 Design Pedagogoy awarded from AIA Arizona.  Given to an educator for teaching and/or pedagogical excellence in a course. This was given out to our TECHNE 1+2 course sequence developed and taught at UofA CAPLA 2021-2023.

Co-Teacher:
Eric Weber

TAs:
Moe Franco
Caro Durazo

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Techne 242 EOYS
04–23–2022

The ‘End of Year Show’ for our class at the UofA CAPLA, Techne 242. Group projects were arranged and displayed to encourage visitors to walk through and explore the assemblies. At the center, boards were setup, giving context and information to the work displayed.

Co-teacher:
Eric Weber 

TA’s:
Jack Barnes
Irena Velickovic

Shop Staff:
Paulus Musters
Eric Hubbard

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EOYS Techne Install 1
12–215–2022

As a way to wrap up the semester and a time to refelect on lessons learned over the semester, students presenter their models in an open  forum in the Sundt gallery space at UA CAPLA. On display were their cast iterations from the ‘Surface + Opening’ assignment and their 1:1 formwork from the ‘Scaling Up’ assignment.

Co-Teacher:
Eric Weber

TAs:
Lydia Roberts
Emily Ahlgren
Jack Barnes
Irena Velickovic

Shop Staff:
Paulus Musters
Eric Hubbard

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Fast Formwork ETH Zurich + Columbia GSAPP
05–01–2019

During the Summer of 2019 a group of students form Columbia GSAPP travelled to Zürich Switzerland. Together with Nina Baier-Bischofberger we coordinated and setup a collaborative workshop with the ETH Digital Building Technologies (DBT), ETH Complex Materials, and the ETH RAPLAB. The goal of the workshop was to test a new material’s properties, and potential for architectural application.

  The student’ first week was spent using a small vacuum former at the RAPLAB and coming up with formal logics to test. Students visited the Materials Lab and discussed their early concepts with the scientist in charge. At the end of each week all four teams gathered in the shared studio space to check in and have a roundtable discussion. The last week was dedicated to the production of the vacuum formed molds, and casting of the experimental material. A round table review and discussion of what the teams learned collectively, followed by a huge celebratory BBQ, followed. Field trips to various architectural and manufacturing sites of importance were coordinated throughout.

Our hard-working group of Columbia GSAPP student’s were: Brenda Lim, Michael McDowell, and Luiza Furia

Participants:

Complex Materials ETH
Digital Building Technologies ETH
RAPLAB ETH
Columbia GSAPP NYC
FenX ETH
Decom3D Zurich

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DETAIL: Craft in Practice at Columbia GSAPP
03–23–2018

‘DETAIL: Craft In Practice’ was developed and taught with Paul Sanderson during the Spring 2018 semester at Columbia GSAPP. This course required that students design and develop a detail from their studio projects and have a portion of the detail fabricated by a local craftsperson. We sat with each team of students weekly to go over their proposal and offer input on the development of the detail

Students were responsible for finding and coordinating with their fabricators. They had to manage deadlines, budgets, meetings, and listen feedback from their fabricator to successfully complete their project. For many students this was the first experience they had with trying to communicate a design intention to non-architects.

Students were encouraged to engage with the fabricators as much as possible. Many groups were able to watch their part being fabricated, and took direct input to better design their detail. Understanding that having the fabricators input was not only helpful in bring the price/time of producing the part down, but also helped make the design of the part better as a result.

Student work by:
Biberoglu + Cernea
Minjae Kim
Do + Kim
Liu + Ye
Hye-Min Cha
Tian + Tu
Liu + Jin
Barker + Williams

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