Instructor: Ellen Phillips Saroka

Have you ever thought about building spaces that are drawn from nature? This is your chance to start exploring what makes a smart building and begin designing buildings that preserve the natural world. You'll study concepts like structural diagrams, plans, sections, facades, sheathing, heating and cooling, materials, siting, landscape, and lighting. You'll then use what you learn to create concept models, plans, and sections while designing a shelter for one person. No class April 11.

Ellen Phillips Saroka is a creative architectural designer with 40 years of experience in both building and academic environments. Her expertise is in institutional buildings and housing projects at various scales, restoration, and sustainable design. Ellen studied sculpture at Pratt Institute and architecture at The Cooper Union and Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught at various universities across the country like U. Cal. Berkeley, UVA, and others, and practiced architecture in Boston, New York, DC, and Virginia.