Open-Air Museum
This experimental graduate studio at Montana State University grew directly from our ongoing Prix de Rome research into historic solid-wood construction. Students investigated everyday buildings from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Students reimagined how their technical lessons could inform contemporary architecture through the design of a ticket booth, gallery, and café for a speculative Montana Open-Air Museum. Beginning with careful observation and analysis of precedents, the studio explored how traditional building knowledge can inspire new architecture that is simpler, more direct, and rooted in the intelligence of pre-modern construction.
Students
Kyle Spatola
Olivia Trail
Paul Tully
Arianna Cline
Octavia Fisher
Erik Kellar
Jason Kwasny
Kadia Miller
Kathryn Ragsdale
Christopher Roboff
Ryley Seibel
