Nancy Nichols
Nancy Nichols is a designer based in Providence, RI. Her research brings both historical and contemporary geometric methods together to explore architectural form and performance, geometric constraints on material behavior and theories of vision and perception.
Nichols holds an MArch with distinction from Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Henry Adams Medal, and BAs in both architecture and studio art from Yale University. Prior to moving to Rhode Island, she worked professionally in the practices of La Dallman Architects and Höweler + Yoon in Boston, MA. Nichols also teaches at the Princeton University School of Architecture and at the Yale University School of Architecture.
Courses
Summer 2024 Courses
FOUND S101-04
STUDIO:DRAWING
SECTION DESCRIPTION
Studio: Drawing is pursued in two directions: as a powerful way to investigate the world, and as an essential activity intrinsic to all artists and designers. As a primary mode of inquiry, drawing is a central means of forming questions and creating knowledge across disciplines. Through wide-ranging drawing approaches, students are prompted to work responsively and self-critically to embrace the unpredictable intersection of process, idea and media. To pursue these larger ideas, the studio becomes a laboratory of varied and challenging activities. Instructors introduce drawing as a dynamic two-dimensional record of sensory search, conceptual thought, or physical action. Students investigate materiality, imagined situations, idea generation, and the translation of the observable world. Formal and intellectual risks are encouraged during a sustained engagement with the possibilities of material, mark-making, perception, abstraction, performance, space and time. As students trust the drawing process, they become more informed about its uncharted potentials, and accept struggle as necessary and positive; they gain confidence in their own sensibilities.
Enrollment is limited to First-Year Students.
Major Requirement | BFA, BArch, MArch (3yr)