Summer 24

Session Details

Commonality

Course: CAE, Arch SS3, Summer 24, M/T/W/H/F 9:00 A.M. - 1:30 P.M., CFA 200

Course Website: https://sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.edu/commonality

Prof. Owen Petrucci (he/him)

Email: opetrucc@andrew.cmu.edu 

Overview

This symposium aims to establish pragmatic practices in architecture through discursive methodologies centering themselves around empathy-building and relational understanding. Throughout this course a collaborative process will emerge as we explore site, materiality, massing, program, documentation, and presentation as core skills alongside the development of architectural discourse. The process will take place over a 2 week time-period in a series of 10 sessions, each 4 1/2 hours in length.

Description by Instructor

Commonality is a course grounded in understanding that each individual in existence presently is unwillingly and perhaps unknowingly an architect. Commonality explores this phenomenon through developing a conversation across peers that emulates the instigating force of the Architect and the reactionary force of the unwilling architect. In this course we will individually explore both sides of this relationship to better understand our unique place in this world.

Student Work