Emily Wissemann is an artist, researcher and occasional writer. Their research explores material tectonics, maintenance, weathering and caloric and thermal expenditures in architecture. Her research and design work can be found in ACADIA, Thresholds and Paprika. They have previously taught graduate and undergraduate studios at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They hold a BA from Bard College and an MArch from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where they received the Arthur Rotch [1872–1873] Prize for achievement in architectural design.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
ARCH 2196-01 - THESIS SEM: NAVIGATING THE CREATIVE PROCESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatSeminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2196-01
THESIS SEM: NAVIGATING THE CREATIVE PROCESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatSeminar
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Emily WissemannLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 120Enrolled / Capacity: 8Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
We begin work on your Thesis Projects from the outset of the semester: navigating arbitrary beginnings; setting boundaries like nets; developing a whole language of grunts, smudges and haiku; gathering the unique and unrepeatable content, forces, and conditions of your project; hunting an emerging and fleeting idea; recognizing discoveries; projecting forward with the imagination; and distilling glyphs, diagrams and insight plans.This course satisfies the prerequisite requirement for Thesis Project.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $50.00 - $200.00
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
Times: F | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Emily WissemannLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 310Enrolled / Capacity: 12Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This course centers around the digital model as a thing to be built, as a multivalent medium for architectural discourse, and as representation of built form. This course uses abstraction as the common thread between its prerequisite, Architectural Drawing, and an inquiry into the elements, natures, structures, and forms of the complex, temporal, cultural, material and political construct often referred to as "the building." Operations in the course are the techniques of analysis, translation and synthesis. The contemporary digital model is delimited and constrained by architectural software. This course recognizes that expertise in multiple digital modeling software-from Rhino to Building Information Modeling (BIM)-is as imperative as are skills to manipulate, undermine, link, automate and hack the media that dominate the discipline of architecture. A series of creative prompts engage the computational principles that underpin all digital modeling software. This "under the hood" approach is balanced by "over the hood" approaches that see students designing workflows, automation and output between software and material. The course engages the digital model as sample, system, and database as well as continually interrogates the translational relationship between model and drawing and model and image.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch: Architecture (3yr)
ARCH 2198-01 - THESIS PROJECT
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Spring 2025
Credits 6
FormatStudio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
ARCH 2198-01
THESIS PROJECT
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodSpring 2025
Credits6
FormatStudio
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PMInstructor(s): Emily WissemannLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 404Enrolled / Capacity: 10Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Under the supervision of a faculty advisor, students are responsible for the preparation and completion of an independent thesis project.
Estimated Materials Cost: $50.00 - $200.00
Permission for this class is based on the student's overall academic record, as well as their performance in the Wintersession course ARCH 2197: Thesis Discursive Workshop. If the department recommends against a student undertaking ARCH-2198: Thesis Project, two advanced elective studios must be taken instead.
Majors are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | BArch, MArch (3yr), MArch (2yr): Architecture
