All this feeling. All this sensing. All this experience. All this expression. What are we going to do with all this being?  
Studio Moments

ARTEFACT HOUSE
An Architecture-is-More Studio Experience
DSGN 404 is a foundational architecture studio that positions architecture as a relational, cultural, and critically conscious practice. Rather than approaching architecture as the production of isolated objects, the studio frames architectural work as the shaping of relationships - contingent, situated, and inseparable from the social, ecological, material, and cultural forces with which it is entangled. Students work across multiple scales - ranging from the body and interior conditions to buildings, sites, and larger territorial systems - to understand how architectural decisions shape and are shaped by broader contexts. Artefact House is an architecture-is-more studio experience led by designer and educator, Joshua Clarke (B.Eng, M.Arch). Joshua’s work intersects multiple disciplines and mediums: architecture, visual communication, artefact-making, creative direction, research and education. A diverse range of professional and educational experiences as helped shape his understanding of the relationships between human psychology, landscape, culture, and the built environment. At the core of Joshua’s work is an enduring interest in how humans change, how we change the world, and how the world, in turn, changes us.

Studio Phases

BEING Prompt 1 → Matter Matters
Prompt 2 → Mixed Matter

PLACE Prompt 3 → Situated
Prompt 4 → Possibilities

entanglement Prompt 5 → Architecturalized Possibilities

together Prompt 6 → Coalesce


The Final Exchange Wed. April 15

AH-HA Workshop

The Entanglement Matrix
Studio Library
DSGN 404: Disciplinary Studio in Architecture (Winter 2026)
Bachelor of Design in City Innovation
University of Calgary

Instructor
Joshua Clarke

Third-Year Design Students
Amani-Safaa Bhatti
Zernaab Nisar
HONG KONG
Silver Castillo
Daniel Snell
TIBLISI
John Paul (JP) Echavez
Sheena Xu
EDINBURGH
Maddy Lamb
Zuha Shahadat
Denis Rosales Becerra
MEDELLIN
Hayley Miller
Jalyna Neudorf
REYKJAVIK
Grayson Moore
Jesse Starchuk
 KATHMANDU
Zyad Rachdi
Alex Simard
 GIBRALTAR
Carola Ramirez
Allysen Stachiw
 PONCE


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