teaching

The studios described below were developed as part of ongoing research into how architecture-adjacent archives might be used to produce new modes of practice. Inviting students to create a catalog of things they hold dear, as was done in the “Object Lessons” Berkeley studio, or holding improv comedy workshops as part of studio meetings for the “Yes, And” studio at Knowlton, brings the whole student to studio and induces defamiliarization. Epistolary novels, souvenir collections, dollhouses, linguistics, and standup comedy all provide powerful new frameworks within which to test assumptions about what questions are important to architecture and to whom it speaks.