3G2 - ARCH 412 - FALL 2025
FORM
GRADUATE STUDIO
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN3G2 - ARCH 412 - FALL 2025COORDINATOR
Adam FurePROFESSORS
Adam Fure, Tess ClancyForm Studio investigates the relationship between building form and social formation.
The semester begins with a series of abstract formal exercises and culminates in the design of a collective living community. The final project asks students to consider the nature of domestic space and what it means to share and care for one another beyond assumptions of individual ownership and comfort.
The site is a neighborhood composed of formerly single-family parcels, reimagined as a mix of housing and services for their community. Students work across multiple scales and levels of resolution: each project designs approximately one-third of a city block at the scale of massing and urban organization, then focuses more closely on a smaller portion of the site through detailed plans and sections.
Alongside foundational concepts of site design—such as circulation, core-periphery relationships, and scale—students critically examine how space is allocated at the level of urban design. This framework allows them to interrogate ideas such as private property and single-family zoning and to explore alternative models of collective living.
Through this work, students develop an understanding of form across multiple registers: from abstract relationships of geometry and space to the tangible effects architecture has on social relations.