Evan Farley is a designer and principal of assembly_archive, a design collaborative working at the intersection of architecture, fabrication and archival objects. His work explores the relationship of material-driven systems that focus on diverse and novel making practices and how they inform the design process. Valuing collaboration with other designers, artists and makers, his work aims to uniquely engage its material and cultural contexts. Prior to his current practice, he was an architect at Barkow Leibinger in Berlin, Germany where he worked on multiple cultural, institutional and residential projects. He has practiced with other leading design and fabrication offices in Boston and New York, including Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Howeler + Yoon, MALL and Situ Fabrication. His research and design work has been published nationally and internationally.
Evan earned a BA in visual arts from Bowdoin College and a MArch with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was the recipient of the Master of Architecture Faculty Design Award.
The second core studio addresses the agency of the building to simultaneously construct new spatial, social, and material orders in the context of the contemporary city. The second core studio situates architecture as the strategic interplay of spatial and constructive concepts towards specific aesthetic, social, and performative ends. The studio seeks to create a productive friction between abstract orders (form, pattern, organization), technical systems (structure, envelope), and the contingencies of real-world conditions (site, climate, politics). The studio asks students to link disciplinary methods to extra-disciplinary issues, with concentrated forays into the realms of structure, material, and critical preservation. Students iteratively develop architectural concepts, ethical positions, and experimental working methods through a series of focused architectural design projects with increasing degrees of complexity, culminating in the design of a mid-scale public building in an urban context.
Students are pre-registered for this course by the department. Enrollment is limited to Graduate Architecture Students.
ReAssembly: Working Logics is a workshop-based studio rooted in hands-on research centered around material-specific methodologies and multivalent modes of production. At the intersection of architecture, art, and fabrication – the course will investigate the material and cultural implications within various design workflows. We will develop digital, automated, and manual workflows to investigate tectonic possibilities and novel design outcomes. Existing precedents will be closely studied to reimagine and refabricate various assemblies within architecture and other material-based practices. These working logics will leverage tools and techniques such as CNC milling and other means of digital fabrication in the development of large-scale prototypes. The workshop aims to build skills and language around compositional, tectonic, and conceptual explorations of contemporary architectural fabrication.
