This studio's intention is to establish each student’s capacity to engage, investigate, evaluate, and construct a critical discourse in the emerging discourse on ecological design and sustainability. This engagement is both a civic and professional imperative within Taiwan’s political, economic and social/political context.

This studio will study the topic of ecology and sustainability in architecture at various scales and ideological frameworks, such as the region, city, building, materials, consumption patterns, cultural norms, etc. We will begin by studying a range of philosophical positions on sustainability and then move into how these ideologies might be relevant to and inform design, practice, and construction. Through the course exercises, case studies design proposals architecture project(s), the students are expected to arrive at a working definition of sustainability as it applies to Taiwan and its cultural and their future professional practice in this context. The studio will involve both individual and group investigations/designs. The studio will conclude with the students engaging in hands-on construction of at least on the their designs.

Midterm charette with students and professors on the greening of the NTUT campus.