Wilderness training: in the field, students unearth the link between design and the environment

Residential Architect, July, 2002 by Lori Ryker

A future Remote Studio class will build a rental cabin in the Crazy Mountain Range for the local branch of the USDA Forest Service--provided the funding and land exchange proposals come through. Such work provides students with the opportunity both to explore and share with others their understanding of place as it is revealed through the practice of architecture.

Lori Ryker, Ph.D., is a professor at Montana State University in Bozeman, Mont. She is also a principal of Ryker/Nave Design and RN Construction, both based in Livingston, Mont., and the author/editor of Mockbee Coker: Thought and Process (Princeton Architectural Press, 1995).