RVTR

RVTR is an experimental platform for architecture and urban design research currently embedded within Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Our work operates across scales to position design as an active agent in continually evolving ecologies: biotic, social, environmental, technological and cultural. Our projects range from the visioning of the urban futures of regional territories, to high performance building design, to prototype-based research in responsive envelope systems and the development and production of digitally crafted objects. These operational scales are tied together through a complex systems approach and a belief in the power of design to transform our world for the better. Since our inception in 2007, RVTR's directors - Geoffrey Thün and Kathy Velikov have worked to integrate design research within practice contexts as a means to advance both professional and disciplinary discourse and the depth of thinking..

Primary location: Ann Arbor United States