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• Studio Foci - 1st – 5th year
• Micro-miniature
• Photography – lens vs. pinhole (also: the camera obscura and/or Lumiere Ghosting with David Gillette…or the work of Etienne Marais)
• Labyrinth – mythology, buildings, cities
• Interview with the Museum of Jurassic Technology
• Sustainability, Transportation or Engineering
• Hearst Lecture Series
- Specific lecturers & their influence, impression, and impact
- Activating Architectural Discourse
- Manuel DeLanda – thermodynamics, chaos theory, form derivation, organization (micro to macro)
- Community Development – Henry Sanoff, Michael Pyatok, Rob Quigley, Peter Calthorpe, etc
• Faculty
- writings, artwork, professional careers, built works, academic papers given, furniture designed

• Fashion & Architecture
- LA exhibit & catalogue
- Charles Jencks
- Term/ name dropping
- Iconic architecture, architects
- Folding in fashion & architecture
- Critical Discussion on the Holl addition at Pratt

• Aggregate forms, systems of absorption
• “Zone” publications (as precedent)
- Essays on the city
- Case studies

• Studio Verticality – how years inform each other
• Forging connections and cross-polinating topics…for example: paper on Lume Materiale by Marco Frascari combines the WAAC, and a specific field trip to Venice, Italy with an interest in Luminous Materiality
• Competitions
• Design Village
• Field Trips vs. cultural claustrophobia
- Biennale to Baths (Venice to Vals) Tour
- Japan
- New York
- Swiss Tour
- Seattle Tour
- Boston Tour
- Barcelona Tour
- LA
- SF
• Learn by Doing
• Study Abroad – what students are doing “A Day in the Life”
• Space Invasions
• Post Graduate Career – article by Sam Bermudez regarding the Gensler office in Costa Rica, Leon Rost at Shigeru Ban, Yoshi at Asymptote or Endo or Toyo Ito, Brian Price at SHoP, Jonathan Lott at OMA, Domenic Leong at Tschumi, etc.
• Vellum – competition
• Vellum jurors (Eric Pfeiffer, Joey Shimoda, Len Wujcik, Chris Deam, Joanna Grawunder, Craig Steely, Jill Salisbury, Anne Fougeron, etc..)
• Vellum essay written by Henri de Hahn…Guillermo Yanguez
• Fifth Year Thesis excerpts:
o Jenny Hizer research
o Karl Johnson questionnaire
o Megan Dorrian research, etc…
• Alumni – What’s the Model?
- Corporate vs. Craftsmen otherwise known as Gensler vs. Zumthor