Issue 02: Invasive Typologies
Written, edited, and designed by architecture students passionate about advancing academic discourse in architecture and its related disciplines, Module is a biannual architectural magazine at the Syracuse University School of Architecture that provides an outlet for emerging undergraduate student authors to engage in critical theoretical conversations on architecture.
FROM DEGRADATION TO RENEWAL Once flowing continuously, teeming with diverse and complex life, the Santa Cruz River in Arizona is now dry and desolate, crushed by the human desire to expand and dominate. Prior to western expansion in what is now the Tucson area, the Santa Cruz River supported a…
A NEW INTERPRETATION OF REGGIO’S ‘KOYAANISQATSI’ This magazine defines ‘invasive’ as a systematized and highly competitive overwriting of existing environments, irrespective or perhaps with disrespect to that which was already there. In this case, however, is not every system ‘invasive’? A system or a typology is merely a set of…
Last semester in ARC 107, our studio class was tasked with creating a dwelling inspired by spatial logics of a precedent house. From my precedent, the CIEN House, I utilized ideas like a processionary circulation path to develop the design for a dwelling for a man and his daughter situated…
Farming Depot City is conceptualized as a radical solution and a contested urban fantasy. Through provocatively choreographing the food system and public participation on a limited site footprint, the project attempts to open up a discussion regarding London’s food insecurity, machine production, and human relation to land. The farming depot…
LA F[i]ESTA, 2025 Directed ResearchInstructors: Palladino, ValdevenitoWritten by Corrine Soo LA F[i]ESTA: EPHEMERAL STRUCTURES is a collaborative, design-build project led by faculty members, Rosita Palladino and Magdalena Valdevenito, and twelve fifth-year students taking Directed Research. Its focus lies in studying, developing, and documenting 1:1 scale material assemblies inspired by the…
This interview was conducted by Anita Yasinska, a 1st year Architecture Student, in conversation with Hermine Demaël, a professor at the Syracuse University School of Architecture. Within this interview, Demael discusses her stance on architecture as both destruction and renewal—exploring borders, housing, and the shifting role of the architect through…
“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?”— The Grimm Brothers’ Fairy Tales. After the guns of the World Wars had fallen silent, Sigmund Freud’s consulting room deliberately placed a mirror directly opposite the window. When the patient sat down, he was forced to face his…
The life cycle in which architecture undergoes, is parallel to the one in which humans have seen for centuries. Life begins at birth for humans, and ends in death. When examining architecture, this cycle is no different. A proposal is made, creating “life”, and when destruction occurs, death triumphs. Metabolism,…
Most of us, while scrolling over the internet, would at some point encounter one of these odd images, typically featuring the snapshot of a place that triggers an uncanny sensation. Strangely, these pictures do not create uncanniness by horrific elements. The architectural elements and objects often appear normal and insignificant,…
“Part I: Spiralling” Hidden inside Slocum’s School of Architecture, where weary-eyed students pay to rush deadlines, stairs many walked up to Studio just as we do, the bustling occupants sweating pure epinephrine, there is a space unlike others. Maybe I was sleep deprived (I am), but amid a call on…