Top Left: Prof. Alina Nazmeeva’s Bug in My Software (2024), an immersive installation that combines textile installation, extended reality, and a screen-based speculative ecosystem simulation.
Top Right: Prof. Hugh Swiatek and Prof. Gideon Schwartzman’s Pedal and Pause (2025), a community pavilion featured in the Chicago Sukkah Design Festival.
Bottom Left: Prof. Kevin Erickson’s design/build for the Hip-Hop Xpress (2024), a mobile classroom and sound studio that collects, creates and teaches knowledge about Hip-Hop concepts and oral histories—built into a retrofitted school bus.
Bottom Right: Student work by Anish Sahu (MArch ’24) and Shrilaxmi Nair (MArch ’25) from Prof. Niloufar Emami’s Additive Formwork for Complex Concrete (Fall 2023).
Detail and Fabrication
Courses in this area combine conceptual development of details with hands-on material experimentation. Students are introduced to methods that help resolve the total design environment, especially the design of human-scale elements. Detail and Fabrication encourages students to make a positive and lasting contribution to the built environment by thinking about large and small-scale interventions simultaneously.
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