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Studio Description: This studio explores the intersection of architectural representation, cinematic techniques, and embodied narratives. Working at the boundary between architectural design and time-based media, students will investigate how architectural space can be conceived, documented, and experienced through temporal, sensorial, cultural, and performative dimensions. Students will develop projects that investigate architectures of embodiment, exploring how built form can emerge from studies of movement, sound, light, and narrative structure.
Canadian Architectural Certification Board (CACB) Student Performance Criteria (SPC): A1, A2, A4, A5, A6
Themes and Pedagogical Approach: The studio will operate as an experimental laboratory where students: Study precedents that bridge architecture, film, and performance. Design Theory is covered through weekly lectures, presentations, and cinematic engagements; Develop techniques/methods for documenting, analyzing, and designing movement, affect, and embodied experience in space through weekly exercises and critical evaluations; Translate temporal experiences into spatial propositions forming the basis of the midterm design proposal and review; Create and communicate architectural interventions that engage with narratives, performance, and cinematic thinking culminating in a Final Review structured as a performance/exhibition hybrid.
Learning Outcomes. Upon completion of this studio, students will be able to: 1) Critically analyze architectural space through temporal, cultural, narrative, and sensorial frameworks; 2) Develop innovative techniques for translating between different media and modes of representation; 3) Create architectural propositions that engage with embodied experience and movement; 4) Employ experimental documentation techniques alongside traditional architectural representation; 5) Articulate a theoretical position on the relationship between architecture, cinema, and performance; 6) Demonstrate competence in CACB Student Performance Criteria A1, A2, A4, A5, and A6.
Coordination Notes: All candidates will work closely with the Director as well as the Studio Coordinator to ensure that their course material meets the University Calendar regulations, the pedagogical objectives of the School and the specific Canadian Architectural Certification Board Student Performance Criteria.
Studio coordinator: Prof. Alan Dunyo Avorgbedor
Description de l'atelier : Cet atelier explore l'intersection entre reprxc3xa9sentation architecturale, techniques cinxc3xa9matographiques et rxc3xa9cits incarnxc3xa9s. Travaillant xc3xa0 la frontixc3xa8re entre conception architecturale et mxc3xa9dias temporels, les xc3xa9tudiants exploreront comment l'espace architectural peut xc3xaatre conxc3xa7u, documentxc3xa9 et vxc3xa9cu xc3xa0 travers des dimensions temporelles, sensorielles, culturelles et performatives. Ils dxc3xa9velopperont des projets qui explorent les architectures de l'incarnation, explorant comment la forme construite peut xc3xa9merger de l'xc3xa9tude du mouvement, du son, de la lumixc3xa8re et de la structure narrative.
Critxc3xa8res de performance des xc3xa9tudiants (SPC) du Conseil canadien de certification en architecture (CCCA) : A1, A2, A4, A5, A6
Thxc3xa8mes et approche pxc3xa9dagogique : Le studio fonctionnera comme un laboratoire expxc3xa9rimental oxc3xb9 les xc3xa9tudiants : xc3x89tudier les prxc3xa9cxc3xa9dents qui relient l'architecture, le cinxc3xa9ma et la performance. La thxc3xa9orie du design est abordxc3xa9e par le biais de confxc3xa9rences hebdomadaires, de prxc3xa9sentations et d'engagements cinxc3xa9matographiques ; Dxc3xa9velopper des techniques/mxc3xa9thodes pour documenter, analyser et concevoir le mouvement, l'affect et l'expxc3xa9rience incarnxc3xa9e dans l'espace par le biais d'exercices hebdomadaires et d'xc3xa9valuations critiques ; Traduire les expxc3xa9riences temporelles en propositions spatiales formant la base de la proposition de conception et de l'examen de mi-parcours ; Crxc3xa9er et communiquer des interventions architecturales qui s'engagent dans les rxc3xa9cits, la performance et la pensxc3xa9e cinxc3xa9matographique aboutissant xc3xa0 un examen final structurxc3xa9 comme un hybride performance/exposition.
Rxc3xa9sultats d'apprentissage. xc3x80 la fin de cet atelier, les xc3xa9tudiants seront en mesure de : 1) analyser de manixc3xa8re critique l'espace architectural xc3xa0 travers des cadres temporels, culturels, narratifs et sensoriels ; 2) dxc3xa9velopper des techniques innovantes de traduction entre diffxc3xa9rents mxc3xa9dias et modes de reprxc3xa9sentation ; 3) crxc3xa9er des propositions architecturales qui s'engagent dans l'expxc3xa9rience incarnxc3xa9e et le mouvement ; 4) employer des techniques de documentation expxc3xa9rimentales parallxc3xa8lement xc3xa0 la reprxc3xa9sentation architecturale traditionnelle ; 5) formuler une position thxc3xa9orique sur la relation entre l'architecture, le cinxc3xa9ma et la performance ; 6) dxc3xa9montrer sa compxc3xa9tence dans les critxc3xa8res de performance des xc3xa9tudiants A1, A2, A4, A5, et A6 du CACB.
Notes de coordination : Tous les candidats travailleront en xc3xa9troite collaboration avec le directeur ainsi qu'avec le coordonnateur du studio pour s'assurer que leur matxc3xa9riel de cours respecte les rxc3xa8glements du calendrier universitaire, les objectifs pxc3xa9dagogiques de l'xc3x89cole et les critxc3xa8res de performance des xc3xa9tudiants spxc3xa9cifiques du Conseil canadien de certification en architecture.
Coordinateur du studio : Prof. Alan Dunyo Avorgbedor
Teaching Qualification Requirements:
Appropriate technical, digital and/or critical, theoretical expertise required for the course; active in the profession. Professional practice and/or post-secondary teaching experience in architecture. M.Arch. or equivalent (first professional degree). Appointment is from January 1 to April 30, 2026. ARCH 304 / Design & Construction 2 (U2 studio). 6 credits. Salary $14,000.
Une expertise technique, numxc3xa9rique et/ou critique thxc3xa9orique approprixc3xa9e est requise pour le cours ; xc3xaatre actif dans la profession. Expxc3xa9rience de pratique professionnelle et/ou d'enseignement postsecondaire en architecture. Maxc3xaetrise en architecture ou xc3xa9quivalent (premier diplxc3xb4me professionnel). Le poste est xc3xa0 pourvoir du 1er janvier au 30 avril 2026. ARCH 304 / Design et construction 2 (studio U2). 6 crxc3xa9dits. Salaire : 14 000 $.
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Hiring Unit: Architecture
Course Title: Design & Construction 2 (U2 studio)
Subject Code: ARCH 304
Location: Macdonald-Harrington
Schedule: TBA
Deadline to Apply: 2025-06-15
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