Program Overview

University Program Information

The university program offers a range of academic and research opportunities for students.

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The academics section includes:

• Undergraduate programs
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• Courses
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• Preceptorship
• Paris
• Rice Building Workshop
• Thesis
• Research Platforms
• Global Workshops

Projects

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• Studio Work
• Thesis Projects
• Faculty Work

People

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• Advisory Council
• Wortham Fellows

Publications

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• Faculty Publications
• PLAT Journal
• Cite

Events

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• Event Calendar
• Mentorship
• Awards and Grants
• Civic Forum
• Summer Immersion

Courses

ARCH 403: Counterspace

This seminar reimagines the kitchen as a living archive a site where spatial practices, such as cooking, eating, cleaning, and gathering, continuously produce and mediate relationships between bodies, identity, land, and labor.

• Act I: Beyond the kitchen
• The kitchen has long been understood as a functional territory within the domestic landscape.
• The seminar explores the kitchen as a space of cultural identity, ecological systems, sensory intimacy, and spatial politics.
• Through the lens of phenomenology, political ecology, feminist geography, vernacular studies, and postcolonial theory, we will answer:
  • How does the kitchen operate as a counterspace?
  • How is space consumed?
  • Who authors it, who labors in it, and who is denied access?
  • What does it mean to design a kitchenor a mealas an architectural and territorial act?
• The seminar will prepare students to theorize and design with the idea of spatial justice, contributing to the foundation for the Spring Watkin Studio (Counterspace Act II)