Aspiring
architects might be asked to plan campuses or whole cities as part of their
education at the School of Architecture. But sometimes, the problem is as
simple as a chair. For a seminar last fall, teachers Timothy Newton ’07MArch
and Joshua Rowley asked students to spend the term studying chairs and
designing one as “a manageable kind of experiment in scale,” says Newton. The
12 students produced vastly different designs, such as Hilary Bingnear’s Bing Chair (top), Julianne
August-Schmidt’s Coyote
Chair (middle), and Ann-Marie Armstrong’s Modular Terrain (below). The chairs caught the
eye of judges at New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair (May
15–18), who included them in an exhibit of student work. Even better, the
students have a start on furnishing their postgraduate apartments.  |
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©Hilary Bingnear ’11MArch
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