"Works"

The projects featured in the exhibition were developed by students in the second-year undergraduate foundation studios of Kent State University's architecture program. These core studios serve as a critical platform for design exploration, where students engage with a wide range of topics – from ecological and cultural contexts to performance-based design strategies.

These projects reflect the college's commitment to imaginative and instrumental design practices – hybridizing analog and digital processes, and understanding systems of form, space and order alongside abstract and concrete modes of thinking.

Students were challenged to take creative risks, experiment with emerging techniques and reimagine how space can be shaped and experienced. Together, these works demonstrate a culture of design inquiry grounded in curiosity, craft, and critical engagement with contemporary practice.