Tiago Campos
Tiago Torres-Campos is a Portuguese landscape architect whose work explores multidisciplinary approaches to contemporary landscapes and complex territories. His interests focus on intersections between landscape practice and the Anthropocene as well as issues of landscape representation. He co-edited Postcards from the Anthropocene (2022), which explores some of these topics.
Torres-Campos’ experimental work ranges from modeling and digital fabrication to video production and speculative writing. Through his PhD in Architecture by Design (2022), he investigates ways of thinking geologically about Manhattan.
Torres-Campos has experience in landscape architectural design, regional and master planning in both urban and rural environments. He was responsible for delivering award-winning proposals in international competitions and for managing the research and international communication teams. He has published internationally and is the founder of CNTXT Studio, a research-by-design platform focusing on the trans-disciplinary study of landscape.
Before joining RISD, Torres-Campos taught at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland and the University of Lisbon, Portugal.
Courses
Fall 2023 Courses
INTAR 500G-01 / LDAR 500G-01
SUSTAINABILITY LAB: ADVANCED RESEARCH STUDIO
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This 6-credit advanced elective studio centers around the Sustainability Lab, an initiative between LDAR and INTAR departments to explore creative material approaches to sustainability. Looking specifically at materials common to the New England region, this hands-on research studio asks students to question current attitudes towards exploitative land uses and material cultures and push the boundaries of material use and techniques in professional architecture and landscape architecture design practices.
This studio focuses on New England's material cultures' environmental, geological, and socio-cultural influences and the impact of current land use and manufacturing practices on the professional design industry. This studio will explore one selected material each year through three main components. First, students will study the histories and stories of the selected material and land use and how they have shaped different regions of New England and become entangled in power relations, value systems, and wider networks of material exchange. Second, they will explore the selected material’s behavior, its unique property dynamics, and how they have influenced its different uses. Finally, using both digital and analog fabrication, students will develop iterative creative processes that explore sustainable ways of drawing and making with the selected materials as modular and in-situ techniques.
This is a co-requisite course. Students must register for LDAR/INTAR-500G and LDAR/INTAR-501G.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture Graduate Students.
Elective
INTAR 500G-01 / LDAR 500G-01
SUSTAINABILITY LAB: ADVANCED RESEARCH STUDIO
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This 6-credit advanced elective studio centers around the Sustainability Lab, an initiative between LDAR and INTAR departments to explore creative material approaches to sustainability. Looking specifically at materials common to the New England region, this hands-on research studio asks students to question current attitudes towards exploitative land uses and material cultures and push the boundaries of material use and techniques in professional architecture and landscape architecture design practices.
This studio focuses on New England's material cultures' environmental, geological, and socio-cultural influences and the impact of current land use and manufacturing practices on the professional design industry. This studio will explore one selected material each year through three main components. First, students will study the histories and stories of the selected material and land use and how they have shaped different regions of New England and become entangled in power relations, value systems, and wider networks of material exchange. Second, they will explore the selected material’s behavior, its unique property dynamics, and how they have influenced its different uses. Finally, using both digital and analog fabrication, students will develop iterative creative processes that explore sustainable ways of drawing and making with the selected materials as modular and in-situ techniques.
This is a co-requisite course. Students must register for LDAR/INTAR-500G and LDAR/INTAR-501G.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture Graduate Students.
Elective
Spring 2024 Courses
LAEL 1044-01 / LDAR 1044-01
HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This survey course focuses on the history of landscapes in the pre-industrialized world. Landscapes will be considered as an evolving condition, even when their defining characteristics were conceived and built at a specific point in time. Critical to this course will be the establishment of frameworks for historical inquiry, the refinement of research methodologies, in the development of multiple perspectives through which to question and understand the design environment.
This course is recommended for NCSS concentrators.
Offered as LAEL-1044 and LDAR-1044.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Landscape Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MLA-I Landscape Architecture
LAEL 1044-02 / LDAR 1044-02
HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This survey course focuses on the history of landscapes in the pre-industrialized world. Landscapes will be considered as an evolving condition, even when their defining characteristics were conceived and built at a specific point in time. Critical to this course will be the establishment of frameworks for historical inquiry, the refinement of research methodologies, in the development of multiple perspectives through which to question and understand the design environment.
This course is recommended for NCSS concentrators.
Offered as LAEL-1044 and LDAR-1044.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Landscape Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MLA-I Landscape Architecture
LAEL 1044-01 / LDAR 1044-01
HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This survey course focuses on the history of landscapes in the pre-industrialized world. Landscapes will be considered as an evolving condition, even when their defining characteristics were conceived and built at a specific point in time. Critical to this course will be the establishment of frameworks for historical inquiry, the refinement of research methodologies, in the development of multiple perspectives through which to question and understand the design environment.
This course is recommended for NCSS concentrators.
Offered as LAEL-1044 and LDAR-1044.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Landscape Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MLA-I Landscape Architecture
LAEL 1044-02 / LDAR 1044-02
HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This survey course focuses on the history of landscapes in the pre-industrialized world. Landscapes will be considered as an evolving condition, even when their defining characteristics were conceived and built at a specific point in time. Critical to this course will be the establishment of frameworks for historical inquiry, the refinement of research methodologies, in the development of multiple perspectives through which to question and understand the design environment.
This course is recommended for NCSS concentrators.
Offered as LAEL-1044 and LDAR-1044.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Landscape Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MLA-I Landscape Architecture
INTAR 502G-01 / LDAR 502G-01
SUSTAINABILITY LAB: THESIS STUDIO
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This 6-credit Thesis Studio centers around the Sustainability Lab, an initiative between LDAR and INTAR departments to explore creative material approaches to sustainability. Looking specifically at materials common to the New England region, this hands-on research studio asks students to question current attitudes towards exploitative land uses and material cultures and push the boundaries of material use and techniques in professional architecture and landscape architecture design practices. Students enrolled in this course are required to register for the co-requisite seminar INTAR / LDAR 503G - Sustainability Lab: Material Tectonics + Fabrication.
The Sustainability Lab Thesis studio builds on the work developed in the Fall semester and the progress students have made in articulating a material inquiry for their thesis direction and a theoretical and methodological framework for their research. In this course, each student will continue the development of their design research project in discussion with their primary faculty advisor and secondary and tertiary advisor.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture Graduate Students.
Elective
INTAR 502G-01 / LDAR 502G-01
SUSTAINABILITY LAB: THESIS STUDIO
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This 6-credit Thesis Studio centers around the Sustainability Lab, an initiative between LDAR and INTAR departments to explore creative material approaches to sustainability. Looking specifically at materials common to the New England region, this hands-on research studio asks students to question current attitudes towards exploitative land uses and material cultures and push the boundaries of material use and techniques in professional architecture and landscape architecture design practices. Students enrolled in this course are required to register for the co-requisite seminar INTAR / LDAR 503G - Sustainability Lab: Material Tectonics + Fabrication.
The Sustainability Lab Thesis studio builds on the work developed in the Fall semester and the progress students have made in articulating a material inquiry for their thesis direction and a theoretical and methodological framework for their research. In this course, each student will continue the development of their design research project in discussion with their primary faculty advisor and secondary and tertiary advisor.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture Graduate Students.
Elective