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Our project engages the individual and community bodies of the villagers met in field work in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Topics include village/landscape scale interventions where designers are increasingly engaging the social, political and economic realities of the city/rural interface as generative content for creating places for handicraft and making. Particular vernacular and indigenous building types provide students with tangible opportunities to engage the important issues that frame contemporary architecture and urbanism, such as local material sourcing, sustainability, adaptive reuse and upcycling. The project calls for a civic compound that incorporates handicraft and making, and is required to be a cluster of buildings around exterior courtyards that are protected from heat and monsoon rains.
Our project engages the individual and community bodies of the villagers met in field work in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Topics include village/landscape scale interventions where designers are increasingly engaging the social, political and economic realities of the city/rural interface as generative content for creating places for handicraft and making. Particular vernacular and indigenous building types provide students with tangible opportunities to engage the important issues that frame contemporary architecture and urbanism, such as local material sourcing, sustainability, adaptive reuse and upcycling. The project calls for a civic compound that incorporates handicraft and making, and is required to be a cluster of buildings around exterior courtyards that are protected from heat and monsoon rains.
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Ban Tha Thum - ThailandVillage 3
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Professor Brian McGrath
Professor Brian McGrath
Design Studio 6 Faculty
Brian McGrath is the founder and principal of Urban-Interface, LLC, an urban design consultancy fusing expertise in architecture, ecology and media. McGrath is a Principle Investigator in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, where he leads the Urban Design Working Group. His books and publications include: Urban Design Ecologies Reader, (2012), Digital Modeling for Urban Design (2008), Transparent Cities (1994), Resilience in Ecology and Urban Design (2012), Growing Cities in a Shrinking World: The Challenges in India and China (2010,, Sensing the 21st Century City (2007), and Cinemetrics: Architectural Drawing Today (2007). McGrath served as a Fulbright Senior Scholar in Thailand in 1998-99 and an India China Institute Fellow in 2006-2008 and was Research Director in the joint US-EU exchange program Urbanisms of Inclusion.
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