Architectural Design @ Stanford

We are pleased to announce two new lecture/seminar based courses for next year. One will focus on contemporary architecture and give you a greater appreciation of the role of materials selection in architecture. The other course will be invaluable in terms of defining career paths that are related to the built environment: professional positions that may not be transparent to you at this point, (at the same time you will get a more detailed look at architecture as a profession, and study the work of the architects that will speak in the Spring Architectural Lecture series). These are both electives that you definitely want to consider, and both will give you opportunities to be engaged in discourse on contemporary architecture.

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Lauren Schneider- Arch Design- 05-06- is continuing as a co-term at Stanford for a Master’s in Structures. This spring 07, she is TAing CEE277S : Design For A Sustainable World. The course researches existing seismic technologies in the Himalayas.

While an undergraduate in architectural design, Lauren completed an internship with
a nongovernmental organization called the Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society. Starting two days after the 2004 tsunami, the organization started working in the Andaman Islands, 800 miles west of India, to help rebuild homes and infrastructure. Schneider took on a project to design a community center. On her own, she designed the open-air meeting space with a wood floor and a thatched roof- pictured below.