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SAIC faculty member Keefer Dunn.

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Keefer Dunn

Associate Professor, Adjunct

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Bio

Keefer Dunn (he/him) is a licensed architect based in Chicago, Illinois. He is a sole practitioner and an Associate Professor, Adjunct at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the former host of a radio show about architecture and politics called Buildings on Air. Outside of his work as a practicing architect Keefer is involved with a variety of activist causes in architecture and community organizing efforts local to Chicago. He frequently writes on the intersection of politics and architecture.

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

ARCH/INARC Studio 2 is a two-day core design studio that expands the architecture and interior architecture design skills and research capabilities explored in Studio 1. Design projects of increasing complexity and scale are generated, critiqued and refined.

Research includes contemporary architecture, site research, urban context, and critical design issues of theory and construction.

Students utilize hand sketching, digital visualization, photography, and physical modeling to present design project work with expanding sophistication. This course requires students to have a laptop that meets SAIC's minimum hardware specs and runs the AIADO software template.

Class Number

1023

Credits

6

Description

This course introduces students to the concepts and skills of designing for construction of buildings and spaces, with an emphasis on the politcical economy of construction. Topics include how architects integrate knowledge and understanding of the construction process into the design process; and how architects communicate their design intentions in drawings and other documents that direct construction. Class work includes lectures; readings and discussions; and exercises to produce construction drawings and details. This course requires students to have a laptop that meets SAIC's minimum hardware specifications and runs the department software template including Rhino and Revit.

Class Number

2283

Credits

3