This studio introduced students to analysis and design as complementary processes. Students learned how to form design intentions based on analytical research and close study of the relationship between architecture, precedent and culture, and considered buildings as settings that address issues of culture, society, economy and ecology. Students learned to incorporate structure, light, and material as expressive elements of an architectural composition.

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Architecture strives to create spaces unique to the human experience. Places for contemplation are designed to capture human perspectives of purposeful and meaningful lives, of collective or individual cosmologies of our role in the universe.

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The purpose of this studio was to explore the nature of public spaces that raises human consciousness through the material qualities of architecture by redesigning the Denver Indian Center.