Geologies of Making
Cornell AAP, Ithaca NY
Fall’25 | Studio | 1st year B.Arch
Students explore geological transformation as a model for architectural thinking, where time, matter, and environmental forces shape form. The semester unfolds through three assignments: extracting spatial systems from geological processes through drawing and paper models; translating erosion into wood through tool-based marking and modeling; and synthesizing this research into a multi-scalar proto-architectural formation connecting landscape, architectural, and human scales.
Instructors: Sasa Zivkovic*, Manuel Bouzas, Iroha Ito, Fany Kuzmova, Katharina Kral, Connor Gravelle, and Marcos Escamilla.
Hybrid Assemblages
Cornell AAP, Ithaca NY
Spring’25 | Studio | 1st year B.Arch
Students examine regional precedents to understand how context, materials, tools, and techniques shape space and structure. The semester is organized in two assignments: first, documenting and analyzing precedents, abstracting their principles, and translating them into new spatial concepts through a short design competition; second, applying these in a comprehensive communal cookhouse project, exploring rituals of use, spatial sequencing, site adaptation, and iterative material and structure.
Instructors: Jennifer Newsom*, Manuel Bouzas, Fany Kuzmova, Suzanne Lettieri, Ryan Whitby, Catherine Wilmes.
Bioregional Tectonics
Cornell AAP, Ithaca NY
Spring’25 | Seminar | B.Arch/M.Arch
This seminar examines the environmental, territorial, and material impacts embedded in architectural production, framed by Internalities, the Spanish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Biennale. The course is structured around two assignments: first, mapping resource territories, tracing material life cycles, and redesigning a basic dwelling using low-carbon bioregional materials; second, synthesizing this research into a 1:20 constructive model integrating material, territorial, and tectonic logics.
Instructor: Manuel Bouzas
Independent Thesis
Cornell AAP, Ithaca NY
2025 | B.Arch/M.Arch
Student: Chris Kassabian
Advisors: Andrea Simitch, Manuel Bouzas
Student: Megan Mueller
Advisors: Leslie Lok, Manuel Bouzas
Geologies of Making
Cornell AAP, Ithaca NY
Fall’24 | Studio | 1st year B.Arch
Students explore geological transformation as a model for architectural thinking, where time, matter, and environmental forces shape form. The semester unfolds through three assignments: extracting spatial systems from geological processes through drawing and paper models; translating erosion into wood through tool-based marking and modeling; and synthesizing this research into a multi-scalar proto-architectural formation connecting landscape, architectural, and human scales.
Instructors: Caroline O’Donnell*, Manuel Bouzas, Fany Kuzmova, Michael Jefferson, Catherine Wilmes, Ryan Whitby.
