Digital Mock-Up Workshop
An advanced MIT OpenCourseWare subject in computer modeling and CAD/CAM fabrication, focused on building large-scale prototypes and digital mock-ups in a studio setting. Students work with outside designers, consultants, and fabricators to develop projects, supported by field trips and direct relationships with building fabricators that expose new construction methods. The course analyzes complex shapes, shape relationships, and curved-surface fabrication at a macro scale, using these investigations to push toward new architectural languages grounded in how things are actually built. Materials include the course's syllabus, assignments, and project briefs as published by MIT. The course is free to audit through MIT OpenCourseWare, with no certificate offered. It suits students with prior CAD or design studio experience who want hands-on exposure to full-scale fabrication rather than screen-only modeling.