M. Arch Studio 3 promotes a semester-long research trajectory emphasizing the relationship of rigorous analysis to design. The specific program of multi-unit housing - by nature, large-scale, aggregated, urban compositions - allows students to engage with complex architectural concepts and strategies as well as the complexities of contemporary urban living. In addition, the studio pursues a thematic study of how "typological thinking" can establish architectural relationships between diverse urban artifacts and widely-varied historical, conceptual, and physical contexts. The studio will work iteratively and use design as a form of research. Students will experiment through drawings and models and evaluate their studies using a feedback loop between design and research as a way of building design process and skills required in advanced studios.