This studio will focus on construction history as a way of practicing architecture. Much like drawing and modeling are the usual methods that architecture practice uses, the studio would explore, through a series of architectural creations, how history could be a means of practice. Instead of history being just a review of architectural productions over epochs, the studio would consider history as the means of architectural understanding and production and its manifestation in contemporary architecture practice.The students would draw and analyse these examples in the studio through the lens of materiality, tectonics, typologies and processes, with historic and contemporary considerations. Thinking, reading, debating and writing, would be means of exploring the objective along with drawings and analysis of the drawings. The output of the studio would include essays that comment critically on the Chatrams.
