This Integrated Studio explores reasons (environmental + contextual + ethical + ideological + historical + pragmatic), strategies (theoretical + spatial + formal + collaborative) and techniques (process + material)for making architecture that is explicitly Local. Like Local Food, Local Architecture is highly specific in response to place and climate, in material, local supply chains, construction craft and technique, and in capacity building and sustainability (environmental, social, economic and cultural). Of specific material interest this semester is the intensive use of wood. Warm, beautiful, sustainable, adaptable, and a material long sourced and used in Northern California buildings, wood will be the material focus of this studio. 

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