Spring 2025
STU 1311
Instructors
Schedule
January 27 - April 28
Thursday and Friday, 2:00pm - 6:00pm
Conditions: Context and Climate
Description
We will understand our site by collecting and analyzing historic, climatic, cultural, social, and typological data. Using this collected knowledge as a shared point of departure, we will consider the project within the urgent global context of climate change. We are racing towards multiple global tipping points, one being temperature rising far beyond expected due to carbon emissions. Forty percent of global carbon emissions derive from the construction industry and, as architects, we have the opportunity to make a difference. We must radically reassess how to build with the goal of proactively minimizing carbon emissions. To do so, we are forced to develop new tools, a new library of references, without losing our aesthetic ambition.
Department
Architecture
School
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Course Level
Graduate
Interest Area
Design & Architecture
Credits
8
Cross Registration
Not Available