Architectural Science
The intersection of scientific research, material investigation, and architectural design practice.
Architectural science explores how buildings and spaces can be informed by rigorous research, material study, and systematic investigation. This approach treats architecture as a laboratory for understanding how design responds to environmental, structural, and experiential conditions.
The community examines material archives and knowledge systems, designs educational environments that embody research methodologies, and develops architectural solutions through biophilic principles, recycled materials, and structural innovation. Projects range from institutional buildings that visualize scientific concepts to studios designed as physical manifestations of creative inquiry.
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View all 40 journalsPerkins&Will Twists Two Volumes into a Gateway for Science at Western Washington University
A 55,000-square-foot interdisciplinary sciences building in Bellingham uses shifting floor plates and radical transparency to put STEM on display.
Assembling the Ruin: Toward a Recyclable Architecture
Thoughts and methodologies
Researches Part One: Biophilic Interiors Shaped by Light Simulation and Natural Form
A digital study in daylight, material warmth, and organic geometry that reimagines residential interiors through biophilic design principles.
Glashaus: Wrapping the Bauhaus in Glass to Rethink Architectural Education
A transparent steel and glass canopy envelops the iconic Dessau campus, housing a rotating cohort of 24 international architecture students.