Our approach to teaching students is based on acquiring the necessary skills to participate in design discourse, and also about determining the kind of issues on which architecture and design can effect change. The curriculum, then, starts with teaching representation. We start with a course on manual representation (hand-drawing, model-making, sketching, etc.) and a course on digital representation (photoshop, Illustrator, AutoCAD, Form-Z, In-Design, etc.).
What comes next is a series of problems that relate to urban landscape, in-fill housing, new building types, school, and other design issues of the post-industrial city. You can look over the whole currriculum in this
Studio Matrix.