GSAPP Housing Studios

In response to student requests and to the coordinated interests of new faculty a series of experiments that took housing as a theme began at GSAPP in 1974, as the school was shifting from a four year undergraduate program to its current three year graduate program. By 1976 the housing studio had emerged as a permanent feature of the school’s studio sequences, with its position as the required fall studio of the second year and its student team approach stabilized. Drawing on school publications, university archives, course bulletin depositories and interviews with faculty and students the exhibition tracks the emergence and transformation of housing at GSAPP, as a pedagogical device, and as a topic that reflects the evolution of collective habitation as a social, formal, technical and political site of inquiry for the school.

4th Floor, Avery Hall

The exhibition will be on display 9am-5pm through the end of the spring semester.