Mae Dessauvage is a designer and artist based in Brooklyn, NY and Brussels, Belgium. Her practice looks to typology and iconography to rethink the cultural production of architecture and images. Dessauvage holds an MArch from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor’s degree from Columbia University. She has previously worked in the offices of Xaveer De Geyter architects, Robbrecht en Daem and Stephane Beel architects. Recent solo exhibitions include So Glad to Have Found It, Tatjana Pieters, Ghent (BE); The Weight of Angels, Artspace, Richmond (US); and The Sleeping Hermaphrodite, The Green Corridor, Brussels (BE). Her work was included in recent group exhibitions at the Belgian Art & Design Fair, Ghent (BE); PADA Studios, Barreiro (PT); Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn (NY); Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Philadelphia (US); and Kirkland Gallery, Cambridge (US). She was the PADA Studios Resident in Barreiro (PT) in 2021 and the Trestle Art Space Resident in Brooklyn (NY) in 2020.
Courses
Fall 2024 Courses
ARCH
- 320G-01
GRADUATE THEORY SEMINAR: MAKING DISCOURSE
LevelGraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatSeminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
GRADUATE THEORY SEMINAR: MAKING DISCOURSE
LevelGraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
PeriodFall 2024
Credits3
FormatSeminar
ModeIn-Person
Start and End2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PMInstructor(s): Mae DessauvageLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 324Enrolled / Capacity: 14Status: Open
SECTION DESCRIPTION
This is a theoretical seminar course that will be concerned with ideas and architectural knowledge that may be cultivated and tested through discourse. The course discussions will focus on an expansive role of architectural tools. While acknowledging a wealth of disciplinary conventions, histories and theories, this course recognizes that the forms of representation within the discipline of architecture have the capacity to affect the discipline of architecture and are not fixed. Students in this course will be expected to build upon their previous architectural education through a series of directed projects aimed at advancing architectural theories, ideas and methods. Some of the questions that students will be expected to address are: What are the practical, theoretical, and creative implications of a drawing that functions as architecture? How do architects change the way we make and think thanks to digital media? How do architects represent and model natural forces? How do architects express political or social agendas? What is the nature of an architectural contribution to interdisciplinary discourse? How can representation enable new kinds of artistic and research-based practices for architecture? Students will be expected to self-direct their process while framing their work intellectually in a seminar environment.
Estimated Cost of Materials: $150.00
This course is limited to first-year MArch (2yr) Architecture Students.
Major Requirement | MArch: Architecture (2yr)
ARCH
- 2196-07
THESIS SEM: NAVIGATING THE CREATIVE PROCESS
LevelUndergraduate
UnitArchitecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
FormatSeminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date
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): Mae DessauvageLocation(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 324Enrolled / 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
