Urban Design Studio I is the core advanced studio for the post-professional urban design program. This required studio covers core urban design methodologies for students entering the program. The studio introduces foundational concepts, critical strategies, and representational skills in urbanism and design thinking. It provides disciplinary and practical knowledge in analyzing and speculating on complex urban systems through design and research processes. More broadly, the studio bridges the disciplinary training of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning to critically interrogate urban, social, and environmental questions through spatial and formal strategies.
The studio investigates situations in Austin through the lens of an urban laboratory by focusing on how an expanded notion of housing and domestic space in the city can encompass a much more pivotal role in defining the urban project today. More specifically, the studio experiments with typological innovations of Austin’s urban block formation to accommodate a greater diversity of density, modes of transit, and domestic and urban lifestyles. Simultaneously, the studio investigates Austin's urban formation through morphological studies and socio-economic processes.
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