UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | Studio Leader : Simon Kim Architecture of a city as a proposition or a form of intellectual investigation is tethered to a built, shared environment. Its implicit and explicit meanings and affects are to be developed in material and also in behavior over time. To do this, we will imbue architecture and urbanism with duration, with its own agency and self governance in the location of Montreal. Montreal’s history in Expos and Olympics places it as an ideal postindustrial model with an apex towards advanced thinking of new environment and eco-intelligence. This studio will break from the classical hierarchy of humancentric design and allow for nonhuman authorship and stewardship. Rather than design from a compositional position, and to dwell in a seamless zone of human comfort, this studio will engage in a design process with transformations over time, to produce environments that change and behave for other than human requirements (such as seasons, water, air, animal). Rather than determining architecture from a top-down application of function and use, we are more interested in a durational and temporal occupation of space that is for both the human and nonhuman.