Culture, Society, Space (CSS) - Penn State Architecture
Architecture Research Cluster
The Culture, Society, Space research cluster examines how built spaces – from the artifact to the urban – affect those who interact with them and, conversely, how cultural, societal and disciplinary values shape the spaces we create.
Projects can address individual buildings, public spaces, communities, or cities, as well as typological, institutional, and wider forms of inquiry. Research methods include formal, theoretical, historic/historiographical, sociological, and systemic analyses. Studies may focus on spaces and ideas as forms of cultural expression, the people who produce and use them, and/or the ideological forces in which they operate, including all aspects of their sustainability.
People
Core Faculty
Peter Aeschbacher
- Associate Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Pep Avilés
- Associate Professor of Architecture
- Stuckeman Career Development Professorship in Design
Denise Costanzo
- Associate Professor of Architecture
- Associate Department Head for Graduate Education
A participatory design game for school design, developed by Baupiloten, Berlin.
Faculty Resarch
