• Cologne Design Summer
• Fallingwater Institute Design/Build Studio
• Ghana Design/Build
• Italy Workshop
• London Workshop
• Maine: Craft and Details in Wood
• Malta: Passive House
• Netherlands, Spring Break 2013
  
• Over-The Rhine Residency Program
• Over-the-Rhine Residency Summer Design/Build Studio
• Rosenheim, Germany
• Southwest Workshop
• Switzerland, Spring Break 2012
• Türkiye Workshop
  

Cologne Design Summer
(Summer Design Workshop at the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft)

Name: Gerardo Brown-Manrique
Contact Telephone: 513.529.7222
Contact Email: brownmg@muohio.edu
Title: UAA Cologne Design Summer (Summer Design Workshop at the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft)
Location: Cologne, Germany
Dates: 12 May-15 June 2012
Duration: Five (5) Weeks
Credit: 6 cr. hrs. undergraduate or graduate architectural design
(or interior design) credit
Capacity: 18 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Rising third-year undergraduates in architecture or interior design or graduate students in architecture

The UAA Summer Workshop is an intensive architectural / urban design studio for upper-level undergraduate architecture and interior design students and graduate students in architecture. The studio site is the UAA. Students will interact with design professionals and collaborate with students from the TU Dortmund in a design charrette. Field visits will include significant projects by Prof. O. Mathias Ungers with historic and contemporary examples of architecture and urban design in Cologne, Frankfurt and Trier.

The Fallingwater Institute Design/Build Studio and Modern Vernacular Architecture Seminar 2012

Name: John Reynolds
Contact Telephone: 513-529-7058
Contact Email: reynoljm@muohio.edu
Title: The Miami University + Fallingwater Design Build Studio and Modern Vernacular Seminar
Location: Oxford, OH and Fallingwater at Mill Run, PA
Dates: May 29-June 22, 2012
Duration: 4 Weeks: One Week June 12-19 2012 at Fallingwater, Three Weeks at Miami University
Credit: (3 Options) 6 Credit Hour Design Studio, 3 Credit Modern Vernacular Seminar, or 3 Credit Fallingwater Field Study only for a total of 3,6, or 9 credits.
Capacity: 20 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: First Year standing or approval of instructor. Second Year standing for studio credit.
For more information please see fallingwaterinstitute.wordpress.com/

The Miami University + Fallingwater Design-Build Studio is a hands-on experience for students, design faculty, and professionals to explore sustainable design and architectural craft practices at Fallingwater. Studio participants live and work with nationally recognized design professionals June 12-19 at world-renowned Fallingwater, a vital experiential learning laboratory that celebrates design in harmony with nature. Students may also take the companion 3-credit Modern Vernacular seminar or the 3-credit Field Study only held at Fallingwater June 12-19.

Design/Build Ghana

Name: J Elliott
Contact Telephone: 513-529-2484
Contact Email: elliotje@muohio.edu
Title: Design/Build Ghana.12
Location: Ghana, West Africa
Dates: May 11 or 12 – June 24, 2012
Duration: 6 weeks
Credit: 6 credit hours of design
Capacity: 18 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Third year standing or approval of instructor. Must have completed arc 202 or 204

The studio gives students the opportunity to affect a community through their efforts as aspiring architects and interior designers. Projects are driven by the needs of Abrafo-Odumase and respond to the feed back of the client before construction and during it. The group tours Ghana, and will design and build two teacher’s cottages. Students take part in all phases of construction with lessons from Ghanaian masons and carpenters with whom they work throughout the project.

Interdisciplinary Studio in Italy

Name: 
John Humphries

Contact Telephone: 513-529-7223
Contact Email: humphrjm@muohio.edu
Title: Mobile Italy
Location: Italy
Dates: TBD, Not offered in 2012
Capacity: 24 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Third year standing or approval of instructor.

Mobile Italy 2011 focuses on the interdisciplinary aspects of design (architectural, graphic, interior, product, and industrial). Digital/analogue and still/motion media, will be combined to study Italian design culture. The study will culminate in a series of representation and interpretation techniques, where the students will apply their analysis through design projects using the latest popular micro mobile media devices and millennia old means of expression to probe the foundations of design. 

London

Name: J Elliott
Contact Telephone: 513-529-2484
Contact Email: elliotje@muohio.edu
Title: Energy Efficient by Design. 13
Location: London
Dates: May - June 2013
Duration: 5 weeks
Credit: 6 credit hour design and build studio
Capacity: Variable
Requirements/Prerequisites: Third year standing or approval of instructor.
Must have completed arc 202 or 204

This workshop is a studio based experience based in the heart of London. The studio meets with world renown architects proficient in an integrated design approach that places energy efficiency in a place equal to or greater than other design drivers. These presentations coupled with field visits to exemplars of this approach and independent/group research helps to prepare the students for their design done in teams of two, of a mixed use building on a site in London.

Maine: Craft and Details in Wood (and a bit of metal and stone) 2013

Name: Ben Jacks
Contact Telephone: 513-529-4916
Contact Email: jacksbm@muohio.edu
Title: Maine: Craft and Details in Wood (and a bit of metal and stone)
Location: Deer Isle, Maine
Dates: winter or early summer
Duration: 4 weeks
Credit: six credit hour workshop in design and craft
Capacity: 12 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Second Year Studio Standing

Deer Isle will be our base for investigations in drawing, design, and construction, with wood as the central focus. We’ll learn about timber harvesting and granite quarrying, and we’ll take our experience with material into the design studio and woodshop. Working with local craftspeople, we’ll design and build at a variety of scales, to further our self-education as multidisciplinary designers (architects, craftspeople, interior designers, furniture makers, etc.) and in benefit of the vibrant local community.

Passive House: Malta 

Name: Mary Rogero
Contact Telephone: 513-529-7271
Contact Email: rogeromr@muohio.edu
Title: Passive House: Malta 
Location: Germany & Malta
Dates: TBD, Not offered in 2012 (usually mid May-mid June)
Duration: 28-30
Credit: 6 credits
Capacity: 15-18 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Junior or Senior Standing. 2-3 pre-workshop training sessions will be held to prepare for the workshop. Students will be required to learn thermal analysis software prior to the workshop.

The workshop begins at the International Passiv Haus Conference (site-TBD). After one week, the studio will travel to Malta to gain an understanding of the history of the island and examine traditional Maltese construction methods, several ancient temples, and the offices of contemporary Maltese architects. 
We will stay in the city of Valetta, the island of Gozo, and then back to the main island where we will be designing a structure using Passive House principles.

Spring Break, Netherlands: Details for Architecture and Interior Design 2013

Name: Ben Jacks
Contact Telephone: 513-529-4916
Contact Email: jacksbm@muohio.edu
Title: Spring Break, Netherlands: Details for Architecture and Interior Design
Location: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Dates: March 8-17, 2013 (Spring Break)
Duration: 10 days
Credit: (one credit study tour offered in conjunction with ARC 406A/506A, “Details for Architecture and Interior Design”—students from outside of the class are welcome)
Capacity: 18 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Second Year Studio Standing

Students will observe, document, analyze, and critique details of old and new Dutch architecture, working individually or in teams on case studies. Holland is on the forefront of design thinking, and we’ll engage it, with a visit to the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. We’ll look back to the iconic Rietveld-Schroder house, including the furniture and other buildings/ interiors of Gerrit Rietveld, and forward with some of the most thrilling new design on the planet.

Over-The-Rhine Residency Program

Name(s): John Blake and Thomas A. Dutton
Contact Telephone(s): John Blake, 513-330-1712
Thomas A. Dutton, 513-330-1713
Contact Email(s): John Blake (blakeja@muohio.edu); Thomas A. Dutton (duttonta@muohio.edu)
Title: Over-the-Rhine Residency 

In Fall 2006 Miami University’s Center for Community Engagement in Over-the-Rhine inaugurated the OTR Residency Program in collaboration with leaders and organizations of the inner city Cincinnati neighborhood of Over-the-Rhine. Typically, twelve students from a variety of majors integrate academics with a full immersion experience to live and work in the "school of social life" for a full semester.

Students take a full load of courses at the Center for Community Engagement. Architecture and Interior Design majors design and build out spaces for low and moderate income residents. Students from other majors work in various neighborhood institutions that serve the under-served, totaling 24-27 hours per week.

Over-the-Rhine Residency Summer Design/Build Studio 

Name(s): John Blake and Thomas A. Dutton
Contact Telephone(s): John Blake, 513-330-1712
Thomas A. Dutton, 513-330-1713
Contact Email(s): John Blake (blakeja@muohio.edu); Thomas A. Dutton (duttonta@muohio.edu)
Title: Over-the-Rhine Residency Summer Design/Build Studio
Location: Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati
Dates: May 14 – June 21, 2012
Duration: 6 weeks
Credit: 6 credits
Capacity: 10 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Architecture and Interior Design majors, or permission of instructor

Students redesign and renovate buildings in a nationally recognized historic district, interact with consultants, code officials, and material suppliers. The design/build studio takes place in Over-the-Rhine, an inner city community marked by extremes of upscale development and homelessness. The purpose of the Workshop is to create a well-rounded experience where students engage with community on many levels—not just as design advocates, but as neighbors. 

Rosenheim Exchange Program

Name: Diane Fellows
Contact Telephone: 513-529-6447
Contact Email: fellowd@muohio.edu

Title: Semester Abroad - University of Applied Sciences in Rosenheim, Germany
Location: Rosenheim (southeast of Munich), Germany
Dates: Usually Spring Semester. Rosenheim start date: February 15 to around July 20

Duration: Full Semester
Credit: Full Semester Equivalent (15-18 credits)

Capacity: 1-3 students

The University of Applied Sciences exchange program in Rosenheim, Germany located southeast of Munich enables students to study one semester at the partner university. Rosenheim offers a wide variety of courses for Interior Design and Architecture majors from visual communications, theory, and technical courses to design studios with architectural, interiors, and product design themes. Emphasis is placed on full-scale prototyping with projects frequently carried out with distinguished partners and the cities of Rosenheim and Munich.

Southwest Workshop

Name: John Humphries
Contact Telephone: 513-529-7223
Contact Email: humphrjm@muohio.edu
Title: Southwest Workshop
Location: Southwest U.S.
Dates: TBD, Not offered in 2012
Duration: 4 weeks

The collaborative study of the cultural artifacts of an indigenous people for the purpose of:

1. analogously understanding contemporary architecture
2. developing inter-university relationships
3. developing the role of details as generators
4. develop modes of drawing in situ [representational and not]
5. hand, digital, and photographic modes of capturing a large complex subject     on comparatively micro-sized medium

Spring Break, Switzerland: Details for Architecture and Interior Design 2012

Name: Ben Jacks
Contact Telephone: 513-529-4916
Contact Email: jacksbm@muohio.edu
Title: Spring Break, Switzerland: Details for Architecture and Interior Design
Location: Basel, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, France
Dates: March 2-11, 2012 (Spring Break)
Duration: 10 days
Credit: (one credit study tour offered in conjunction with ARC 406A/506A, “Details for Architecture and Interior Design”—students from outside of the class are welcome)
Capacity: 18 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: Second Year Studio Standing

Students will observe, document, analyze, and critique details of at least eighteen buildings, working individually or in teams on case studies. We’ll spend two days at the renowned Therme Vals (in the water), and visit other Zumthor buildings: St.Benedikt chapel, Roman Ruins, the houses at Leis, and Kunsthaus Bregenz. We’ll study the multifaceted Vitra Design Museum (a must-experience for interior designers, plus Markli, Le Corbusier (Ronchamp!), Piano, Herzog & de Meuron, Gehry, Ando, Siza, Hadid

Türkiye Workshop 2012

Name: Gulen Cevik
Contact Telephone: 513-529-7272

Contact Email: cevikg@muohio.edu
Title: Türkiye Workshop
Location: Turkey
Dates: July 15 2012-August 16 2012
Duration: One month
Credit: 6 credits (Counts as an elective ID studio for rising juniors and seniors); For architecture students: Studio credit if you have completed 201 and 202, 3 credits for history/theory, and 3 credits for communication process allowable
Capacity: 13 students
Requirements/Prerequisites: A great interest in design and learning, sophisticated taste buds, and a sense of adventure. 

The Türkiye workshop experience is structured to explore the issues of history and tradition, identity and culture, architecture and social and physical context, and effects of Westernization and globalization on spatial environment. Students are exposed to diverse ways of thinking through sharing and living with another culture. The first half will be devoted to travel, observation, documentation and analysis whereas the second half will be the design project in collaboration with Yeditepe University students.