Designing with Others

The built environment is not produced by architects alone. Inhabitants, builders, and experts from other professions are also responsible for co-creating the built environment together with architects and engineers.

Through experimental design practice you will examine and use analytical and projective instruments and methods of the architectural discipline and other related professions in collaboration with the different actors who participate in the production of architecture. The final outcome of the studio is a real-size built architecture, produced in collaboration between architects and non-architects.

The three design studios offered by the chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination form future architects with the skills and knowledge required to: (a) inscribe architectural designs within concrete sites and situations (MSc1, Situating Architecture), (b) collaborate with others productively in the development of architectural designs (MSc2, Designing with Others), and (c) scale fully developed architectural designs meticulously and insightfully in relation to human proportions (MSc3/4, A Matter of Scale).

Well situated, co-created, human-scaled architectures result from the thorough and creative analysis and imagination of possible futures for particular architectural contexts. In the three courses analysis and imagination are fully integrated in practice through the proficient and explorative use of instruments and methods of the architectural discipline and other related professions.

Student work may be used for educational purposes, and students must self-notify the coordinator/ lecturer of the course if they do not wish to give permission to do so.