不良研究所

Description

I investigate the rise of a sensibility to ambiance and atmosphere in British architecture in the 19th century, in order to further our understanding of the concept of environment in its historical complexity. I seek to expand current histories of the concept of environment by addressing the too often neglected role of architecture. Inspired by the increasing attention to emotion and affect in literary and social studies and drawing from a specific strand in recent ecocriticism鈥攕pecifically the 鈥渆cocritical鈥� re-evaluation of British literary romanticism in terms of an environmental tradition鈥攐ur research program focuses on the ways in which architectural experience shapes and reflects the beholder鈥檚 interaction with the world: how it develops an ecology between mind and environment. This research program has been SSHRC funded.

Tasks per student

The student will perform historical research, perusing the complete run of the main British architectural journal of the nineteenth century, The Builder, mapping out the stages of architects' interest in the notion of ambiance throughout the century. It will be conducted through i) online word search, as The Builder is available on a web platform, and 2) through iconographical research. .

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Number of positions

1

Academic Level

Year 2

Description

Join a multidisciplinary research team, innovating with mass timber to exchange fresh air and low-grade heat, simplify building systems, and store carbon from managed forests for centuries ahead. /architecture/salmaan-craig Prequisites: ARCH 377 (Fall 2020) and ARCH 540 (Winter 2021)

Tasks per student

As part of an interdisciplinary team, each SURE researcher will work one of the following tasks: 1. Develop the next version of this flow experiment (). The aim is to measure the heat-recovery efficiency of this natural ventilation scheme compared to the "gold-standard" of spontaneous mixing ventilation () 2. Prepare maps and inventories outlining future scenarios for timber-availability and carbon-cycling in the Morgan Arboretum 3. Prepare samples of multiple wood species from the Morgan Arboretum and measure their thermal properties

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Number of positions

3

Academic Level

Year 3

Description

This project examines the oeuvre of celebrated Canadian architect and 不良研究所 graduate Arthur Erickson (1924-2009) through the ways his buildings appear onscreen in movies, films, television shows, commercials, and music videos. The project builds on the methods and sources used to make Impostor Cities, a competition-winning exhibition about cinema and architecture set to open at the Venice Biennale in 2021 (see website). How do Erickson's buildings stand in or double for others? How do we understand architecture through moving images as opposed to through photographs, textual accounts, or first-hand experience?

Tasks per student

Students will learn how to search for architecture in cinema. In particular, they will be taught how to access digital databases, newspapers, and indexes ands to identify film clips and shooting locations and create a database. They will collect, categorize and organize sound and video clips, and use non-linear editing to make "superclips" that allow comparisons across themes such as cinematic tropes, locations, and building types.

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Number of positions

2

Academic Level

No preference

Description

Children are disproportionally affected by climate change and displacement. The leadership of children in recent climate activism is a demonstration of their ability to process and act. Our project seeks to learn from children while building awareness and establishing seeds of action children can implement as adults. While there is consensus that education for environmental justice must begin in early childhood, architecture's relevance and capacity is almost never included in curricula. Entitled "Architecture Playshop," our project will show (3 to 9-year-old) young children that the built environment is an indirect cause of climate change; yet, architects can develop visions to mitigate effects of climate change on populations. This project will also demonstrate to educators how these topics can be introduced to young children in age-appropriate ways. It is vital to expose children to the complex entanglements of climate change, forced migration and architecture.

Tasks per student

Developing visuals and dissemination of research

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Number of positions

2

Academic Level

No preference

Description

The SURE project will comparatively study the campus landscapes of select historic colleges from around the world. By 鈥渃ampus landscape,鈥� the project refers to the individual buildings that make up a campus and the spaces in between them, and the inside and outside of the campus. The project will trace architectural changes in the campus in relationship to pedagogic objectives and racial and class hierarchies. A geographic approach to buildings will reveal much about design decisions and user experiences that are unarticulated in textual or architectural documentation. The SURE students working on the project will use maps and geographic information and other contextual information to show how and why some colleges differ from others in the way they are laid out and their major landmarks are oriented. The work will contribute to our understand the different ways campus design evolved as various models mutated across the globe over the last two centuries.

Tasks per student

1) Archival work to identify maps and other architectural drawings 2) Redrawing of found designs 3) Production of comparative to-scale diagrams

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Number of positions

2

Academic Level

Year 3