This 3-unit Advanced Studio is an intensive architecture design studio that takes place in the summer. It emphasizes exploration and innovation with cutting-edge methods, materials, or technologies.Note: The morning section is recommended for students with advanced Rhino skills (fluency with complex and double-curved geometry), Adobe, and familiarity with VRay. Students with little or no experience with Rhino are encouraged to sign up for the afternoon section (ARCHT-4440-1/MARCH-6040-1)Section Description:This five week seminar will focus on image making as a tool to convey speculative scenarios in which the new and the old converge. Students will work with translations and mediations of multiple photographs, both real and AI-generated, stitching images together seamlessly or curating them to ‘not fit’. The course will foreground architects’ and designers’ agency as storytellers, as we tackle questions of realism and the ethics of para-fictional realism in the age of AI.The course will focus on existing buildings in San Francisco’s Design District where the typologies range from warehouses to vernacular buildings to low rise stucco structures. As we imagine the consequences of densifying in place, an alternate, mixed and juxtaposed architectural aesthetics will begin to emerge. The course thus interrogates what forms preservation may take.The format of the course will include walking tours, guest lectures and multiple explorations of various mediums.

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