48-509 Architecture Design Studio: Thesis I/ Independent Project
18 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Thesis is a yearlong, independently defined research and design project that takes the place of upper level option studios. Thesis is an opportunity to develop skills, thoughts, and habits essential for future success, including mental discipline independence of mind and judgment working with advisors the capacity to focus and pursue a subject in depth and over an extended time the ability to design and execute a complex project the skills of analysis, synthesis, and clear writing and the selfconfidence that grows from mastering a difficult challenge. Thesis topics and research agendas are generated by the student, but must be determined in collaboration with an advising team, and approved by a Thesis Coordinator. The School seeks to encourage an expansive range of rigorous and provocative inquiry as a culminating experience for the B.Arch education, including work that speculates, invents, or improves on existing ideas, practices, or systems through research and design work that challenges the boundaries of the discipline and the profession, and moves beyond mere practice or solutionbased work worj that engages with openended and generalizable ideas, as much as with specific situations work that projects or imagines a better future and an improved world work that leads to the new knowledge, ideas, understanding, or paradigms. Acceptance into Thesis is dependent on passing the 48497 Thesis Prep course or its preapproved equivalent, and submitting a rigorous thesis proposal to the Thesis Coordinator in late August, before the begin of classes. Approval for the 2nd semester is contingent upon successful completion of the 1st.
Prerequisites: none listed
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