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Yale architecture students pick a real client for their undergraduate projects

United States Architecture News - Apr 11, 2016 - 20:47   7371 views

Yale architecture students pick a real client for their undergraduate projects

On Friday, undergraduate students in the architecture major presented projects to real-world clients from Red Hook, New York. The presentations marked the culmination of “In Space,” this year’s fall studio for senior architecture majors. The annual course offers seniors an experiential foray into the practical workings of the architectural profession. Falconworks Artists Group, a community-based acting program located in Red Hook, was selected as this year’s client, and students were asked to design a theatre on a shoreline site, formerly used as dumping ground for various kinds of rubble, to serve as the Falconworks’ “permanent home.”

Daphne Binder ARCH ’16, a graduate fellow for the course, said the class asks students to evaluate their own design processes in important and novel ways.....Continue Reading

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