Matrix to Parts is a thesis seminar and studio at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, with a provocation to reimagine both the frameworks of architecture and the ways we design within them.

Our collective goal is to retool typology through contemporary pressures unfolding in overlooked and quotidian space. We are interested in typology's ability to act through multiples over the singular - in form, in time, and in space - and are exploring this through a design methodology of collecting and curating.

Our methods also inform new formats of how architecture is worked on, discussed, and communicated. This website offers an example: rather than a compendium of design outputs, it is synced to a class intranet and being worked on in tandem with the developing projects. The repository of images and cloud-based documents is a mirror of the shared conversation unfolding across individual theses projects.

With Alexa Perez Bermudez, Alex Vernon, Aracely Landero, Clayton Artz, David Lee, Elizabeth Greene, Jacob Nurre, Jie Feng, John Lozinak, Rosa Manzo, Tessa Broek, Zoe Faylor, and De Peter Yi (Instructor).

Welcome to Matrix to Parts

Welcome to Matrix to Parts