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Through full-scale mock-ups, students will gain knowledge of project risks associated with new and innovative prod- ucts, materials, and technologies. The students will be chal- lenged to tackle the physical and intellectual resistances of working directly with full-scale building materials. The goal is to develop a “seeing hand” that understands the relation- ship between architectural constraints and material reali- ties. “We start with detail in order to explore issues of tactility, phenomenological effects, and the poetics of material as- semblies,” Huang says. “The project will allow students to learn directly from practitioners who fabricate their own design mock-ups and constructions, and to expand their re- search beyond the limits of conventional practice.” MISSISSIPPI. Mississippi State University’s College of Archi- tecture, Art, and Design was awarded $30,048 for its pro- posal, “Expanding the Agency of Architects.” The program exposes students to different practice management tech- niques through the school’s partnership with the univer- sity’s Carl Small Town Center, which promotes design and planning statewide. The students will study sustainability and social impact design, and apply what they learn to a project in the Mississippi Delta, among the poorest regions in the U.S. “Architects are good at a lot of things, so we want to expand students’ view about what they can do with their architecture degree. We want them to realize they have the ability to recognize social issues a community may have and use design to solve the problem.” This hybrid experience is expected to improve students’ communication skills, increase their knowledge of triple bottom line – social, environmental, and financial – and introduce them to practice management methodologies to better articulate their own professional goals. Project team members include assistant professors Emily M. McGlohn and John Poros, and Emily Roush-Elliott, an Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow. See SCHOOLS AWARDED, page 8 “The project will allow students to learn directly from practitioners who fabricate their own design mock-ups and constructions and to expand their research beyond the limits of conventional practice.”

University of Florida’s School of Architecture

Philadelphia University’s College of Architecture and the Built Environment

Mississippi State’s College of Architecture, Art, and Design

uary 15, 2016, ISSUE 1139

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