Component/Assembly: Prototyping Collective Space This studio will focus on the architectural detail as a locus for reconsidering contemporary domesticity in the context of new technologies of design, fabrication, and assembly. The studio will look to the recent past as a way to project forward into the future. In particular, we will study the Case Study House Program spearheaded by John Entenza of Arts & Architecture magazine (1945-1966) as a model for how architects can re-conceptualize and re-materialize domestic space through an understanding of contemporary, innovative fabrication and construction processes. Just as the architects of the CSH Program crafted new prototypes for domestic living inspired by the postwar (modernist) logics of mass production, we will speculate how contemporary (postmodernist) logics of mass customization can inform new models of domestic space appropriate for today. Inspiration will be drawn from contemporary precedents of advanced design and fabrication, as well as historical moments of convergence between new technologies and new forms of domesticity.

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