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Student Work

The student work shown here provides a real insight into our school. Our newly reorganized foundation curriculum incorporates both manual and digital skills, but doesn't seek to duplicate them. Students learn to use sketching, diagramming and other visual/ cognitive drawing skills as part of a design process that now also relies on early exposure and mastery of many different digital tools. CAD is now the norm for drafting, but simple 3D modeling tools like Sketch-up are also developed right away, as well as introductions to BIM software, photoshop, Illustrator and other visualization and communication tools.

The design studio courses show our intense focus on both the complex realities of designing for the contemporary city and within constraints of specific architectural operations. The housing studio offers students very difficult, often post-industrial sites and demands innovative market-responsive solutions. The graduate thesis work involves developing detailed knowledge of commercial building types, so that new solutions and hybrids can add to the city's collective repertoire of options.

Northeastern students learn to value the opportunities that emerge from addressing real architectural problems. The relationship of the academic studio to the professional office is not one of unquestioning mimicry, but of rigorous analysis, critique, and invention. You will see more work added here regularly.

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