ARCH 371/372 (Architectural Design). Syllabus excerpt, Spring 2007: “This studio begins with the assumption that among the many responsibilities borne by architecture in an urban context is the responsibility to make the city memorably visible; that is, to structure memory. The studio proposes to investigate the implications of this assumption through a specific project requiring students to extend the downtown Fargo Skyway System within a specific, student-selected and student-defined field of action. Studio exercises will explore the material and structural nature of artifacts (both found and designed) and the joints between them; the ability of representational artifacts to structure memory (particularly within an urban context); and the composition, behavior and scope of structural systems (particularly structural steel).”

ARCH 726 (Seminar in Current Architectural Theory). Syllabus excerpt, Spring 2007: “The construction of architectural knowledge (i. e., knowledge that can enter productively into discourse) occurs fragmentarily through the operation on visual perception of distinct mediating artifacts. The seminar proposes that architecture in general, and contemporary architecture in particular, can be consistently, revealingly, and productively questioned by examining the mediating artifacts which stand between memory, imagination, and architecture. ...[I]t is precisely because of the fragmentary and incomplete nature of the mediating artifacts on which the process of making architecture known relies, that the process simultaneously excludes, prioritizes and provokes: it physically and viscerally constructs a particular theoretical position or way of knowing architecture."