Armando Hashimoto earned a Master of Science in advanced architectural design from Columbia University, where he was a member of the National System of Art Creators and a FONCA Young Creators fellow. In addition to teaching at RISD, he teaches at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He is co-founder, together with Surella Segú, of El Cielo, an office that encompasses architecture, urban planning, research and consulting projects in urban development, housing and community. Their work has been presented at various biennials and exhibitions and published in national and international media. They presented at the 2019 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, the Opportunity of Scarcity exhibition at the 2021 Chicago Architecture Biennale and at Arc en Rêve in Bordeaux, France in 2022.
The Urban Ecologies core studio introduces students to the city as a designed environment with an emphasis on sustainability, giving them the tools to work through impressions, analysis and design operations as ways to understand the relationship between naturally formed and culturally constructed landscapes and strategies for urban ecological development. Students confront the design of housing as a way to order social relationships and shape the public realm and attack the problems of structure, construction, access and code compliance in the context of a complex large-scale architectural design. Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Junior Architecture Students.
These studios, three of which are required for graduation, are offered by individual instructors to students who have successfully completed the core curriculum. They are assigned by lottery. Once assigned to an advanced studio, a student may not drop studio.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Fee: Some advanced studio sections have a fee for course supplies or field trips. The fee is announced during the registration lottery held in the department.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Preference is given to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
