This course introduces students to innovative methods of construction, fabrication, structuring and assembly enabled by the advent of new technologies. The class addresses issues pertaining to site, environmental and building systems and their relation to surface and building envelope and the shift from two dimensional forms of representation and documentation, to three dimensional systems and their consequent impact on architecture’s relation to the building industry. Current typologies and specific precedents of architectural realization and their integration of geometry and ordering systems with systems of construction and assembly are discussed through a series of lectures, group presentations and individual assignments.