The Advanced Digital Media course at Tulane University in New Orleans encourages students to critically engage with use of computational and data-driven methods of architectural design.

School: Tulane University School of Architecture
Course: ARCH 3312/6312 – Advanced Digital Media
Location: New Orleans, USA
Course dates: August 2025 to December 2025
Application deadline: 15 January 2025

Over the past three decades, computation and automation have transformed and become central to the practice of architecture. In the design and construction of buildings and cities, computational workflows now inform and augment processes of design, analysis, representation, communication, fabrication and assembly. And yet, as is often the case with computational paradigms in our broader society and culture, we tend to engage these technologies uncritically, easily accepting predefined processes as given without questioning or customising them.

This course will challenge such “blackboxing” of computational workflows in architectural media, cultivating a foundational understanding of data-driven processes and a critical sensibility with regard to deploying them in architectural practice.

This course emphasises computational and data-driven methods of design, fabrication and representation as integral aspects of the architectural design process. The course includes technical skill-building through a series of design exercises that cultivate an understanding of how such tools can inform the architectural design process.

Students are introduced to 2D and 3D techniques of parametric design, digital fabrication workflows, and digital methods of visualisation – with the emphasis on critical understandings of these tools and how all three elements can synthetically strengthen the architectural design process.

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Top image: Lasercut prototypes by Alex Cohen, Asha Hokanson, Caleb Schroeder and Alexa Trapani. From ARCH 3312 - Advanced Digital Media (Fall 2023), led by Associate Professor Adam Marcus. Image courtesy of Tulane School of Architecture. 

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