Students in the ARCH 403 studio taught by Peter P. Goché, architecture professor of practice, will share their work in a public exhibition at Black Contemporary, located at a defunct seed-drying farm just outside Ames. Visitors are asked to park along the west side of 530th Avenue.

“The students seek to navigate various material and immaterial mediums with a broken pencil and thereby provoke a capacity to speculate on an architectural potential by experimental drawing and sentient-based labor (or making),” Goché says. “Their work will focus on the production of a preliminary drawing assembly, which will serve as a trajectory for the production of architectural imagination.”

“The remainder of the semester will focus on the act of making and curating an iterative series of imaginary worlds (large-scale installations) within the various on-site, dormant seed-drying chambers. This course of study provides students with the opportunity to make full-scale inquiries and, thereby, move beyond representational methodologies and precedents as the only means of cultivating design thinking,” he says. “This studio aims to develop innovative projects that are academically rigorous, critically informed and masterfully made.”