At the end of the semester in ARC 550, the students were asked to submit a booklet (published through Blurb) that summarized their studio project for the semester. Many of these books were too large to upload to the site, but below you will find excerpts from some of them that outline not just the physical built piece, but also the research and thinking behind what they produced. The front image for this post comes from the book of Otto Chanyakorn.
Author: cjschwartz
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su12 | arc550 | final boards
These are a selection of the final boards produced by the students in the summer graduate studio.
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f11 | arc551 | final boards
Here is a small sample of the final boards produced by the arc551 students last semester.
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lockdown architecture
These images are of a recently completed project that I worked on while back in Arizona. It is a significant remodel of and addition to a juvenile holding facility for the colorado river indian tribes (CRIT) located in parker, arizona. This project was part of a presentation I made last semester to the AIAS and also popped up in ARC|ID242 last week. The architect of record on the project and the individual I was working with is Mark Ryan of mark ryan studio, a small architectural design firm in Phoenix. The photographs below were taken by the brilliant photographer Bill Timmerman.
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desert textures
Desert light is an amazing thing and has the ability to reveal the complex textures of the desert environment. These are a few photos I took at the Desert Botanical Gardens in Phoenix last year.
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down in marfa
Here are a few images from a trip I took a few years ago with some students from Arizona State to see the work of Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. Enjoy.
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end of the semester final reviews
Here are some images from the final reviews in the school of architecture this semester.
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coming from where I’m from….part II
For the second post in this series, I would like to share with you The Agave Public Library, a great little library by Will Bruder + Partners. It is located on the north side of Phoenix in the city of Glendale, Arizona.
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coming from where I’m from….part I
Hopefully over the next few weeks I will be able to get a few things rolling on this website. As a first step, I would like to share a few images of the architecture I have visited and studied in the Phoenix area where I have been living for the past 10 years. Many of these projects come from architects of the “desert school” who have carved out their own style and way of designing that responds to the climate, the culture, and the place of Sonoran Desert. In this first post in the series, I give you one of my favorite projects in the Phoenix area: The Prayer Pavillion of Light. This project was designed and built by Debartolo Architects for the Phoenix First Assembly church.
Chad Schwartz Research Anthology 