Media + Modes: Architecture and Design Undergraduate Student Work Exhibit. MIT Rotch Library Gallery, Cambridge, MA. 2018

Design and curation completed with Sam Ghantous

This exhibit traces select artifacts of projects produced by undergraduates in the MIT Department of Architecture through multiple media: drawings, images, models, objects, video, and interfaces. Design practices today contend with media more than ever due to global networks of image sharing and amateur accessibility to rapid prototyping. With this in mind, such an exhibit asserts that architecture is always mediated: architects and designers work through drawings and models that point to the development of a final artifact, yet each of these mode is a tool for thought in itself.

Media and Modes offers a glimpse at the curriculum under such a rubric, offering not only collections of artifacts of a similar type but projects that connect across forms of media itself. Work featured includes foundational studio exercises, semester-long architectural design projects, and interdisciplinary design collaborations.