ARCH 432 - FALL 2025
UG3
UNDERGRADUATE STUDIO
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III
ARCH 432 - FALL 2025COORDINATOR
Thom MoranPROFESSORS
Nitzan Farfel, Mick Kennedy, Malcom McCollough, Thom Moran, Jonathan Rule, Claudia WiggerUG3 builds on the knowledge, expertise, comprehension, and skill sets acquired in previous undergraduate design studios – UG1 & UG2 – to develop a mid-scale, programmatically complex building (~25,000 sq.ft. of conditioned space). The studio requires students to contemplate human occupation and behavior, environmental analysis and stewardship, and building construction, with a complexity level surpassing what they've previously experienced.
The studio encourages students to think about their building designs not as isolated entities, but as members of an interconnected network (geographic, logistical, cultural), enmeshed in the particularities of site and place. Students will practice addressing the architectural and environmental design issues mentioned above in a systematic way by studying the problem (analysis), formulating and executing the strategy (process), and ideating and maturing the solution (synthesis). UG3 is loosely coordinated. While the program is shared across all sections, each individual studio instructor defines the conceptual framing, specific site, design process and representational outcomes.