Furniture Design and Fabrication

The final product of this design class, a finished, working, full-scale piece of furniture, is understood as a part of the set of courses addressing the role that the direct consideration of materials contributes to architectural design. The required materials, sequences, and programs emerge from an effort to relate the work of this class to questions of process and materiality in architecture more generally. So the attitude toward materials and their assembly should be prejudiced toward those that to some extent mimic architecture. The emphasis is on common materials joined and formed by standard procedures to serve unique purposes in unusual contexts and adapted to new programs. Prerequisite: 802a or permission of instructor. Limited enrollment.