Mae Dessauvage

Lecturer
Mae Dessauvage

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. 

Fall 2024 Courses

ARCH 320G-01 - GRADUATE THEORY SEMINAR: MAKING DISCOURSE
Level Graduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 320G-01

GRADUATE THEORY SEMINAR: MAKING DISCOURSE

Level Graduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PM Instructor(s): Mae Dessauvage Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 324 Enrolled / Capacity: 14 Status: 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
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 2196-07

THESIS SEM: NAVIGATING THE CREATIVE PROCESS

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Fall 2024
Credits 3
Format Seminar
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2024-09-04 to 2024-12-11
Times: W | 1:10 PM - 4:10 PM Instructor(s): Mae Dessauvage Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 324 Enrolled / Capacity: 8 Status: 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

Spring 2025 Courses

ARCH 2198-07 - THESIS PROJECT
Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Spring 2025
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start date
End date

ARCH 2198-07

THESIS PROJECT

Level Undergraduate
Unit Architecture
Subject Architecture
Period Spring 2025
Credits 6
Format Studio
Mode In-Person
Start and End 2025-02-13 to 2025-05-23
Times: T | 1:10 PM - 6:10 PM Instructor(s): Mae Dessauvage Location(s): Bayard Ewing Building, Room 406 Enrolled / Capacity: 10 Status: 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

Mae Dessauvage