Contributed By: Courtney Creenan, M.Arch + M.UP Student Getting inside Buffalo, New York’s grain elevators has been on many a University at Buffalo architecture student’s to-do list. This past fall, students in the Inclusive Design Research Group were able to not only... View full entry
The idea for Architect Barbie emerged out of a 2007 exhibition at the University of Michigan’s Architecture School, curated by Professor Despina Stratigakos, for which students and faculty designed prototypes for the doll as a way to explore and playfully critique stereotypes of... View full entry
Contributed by: Robert Garlow, M.Arch Student [ How can a better understanding of a material’s reaction to thermal energy allow us to design an architecture that participates and mediates amidst the presence of bodies and/or environmental stimuli? ] Historically, our attempts to suppress a... View full entry
Partition Transformation
Contributed by: Robert Garlow, M.Arch Student Studio Abstract: Vertical Constructions is a graduate studio in the Material Culture Graduate Research Group that explores the design and construction of vertical structures. It concentrates on 3 primary objectives: 1) on the differences between... View full entry
Contributed By: Gabrielle Printz This studio, led by Joyce Hwang, asked first year graduate students to consider the collection conceptually, spatially, and in relation to a culture of excess. Walter Benjamin describes the process of assembling the material collection in his... View full entry
Contributed By: Scott Archambault The Material Culture research group explores the relationship of people, materials, and ideas and their manifestation into the artifact of the built environment. The idea of Material Culture is that every material has a culture that inevitably... View full entry
This past fall semester, 13 students embarked on an explorative journey in the world of furniture design and construction with Materials and Methods Shop Director Dick Yencer and his assistant Wade Georgi. Throughout the semester, students were instructed on how to properly use various... View full entry
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