Faculty

Teaching and Research Interests

Professor Corser’s research and teaching explores the convergence of design and construction technologies and the impact of new tools and processes on this relationship.    His work deals with historic, current and emerging manifestations of technology and design . His current work focuses on the impact of digital design on design-build practice, new architectural applications for CNC prototyping and fabrication, and new digital tools for design collaboration. Projects range in scale from furniture studies to adaptable and deployable building systems and larger infrastructural proposals.

An important ongoing study, in collaboration with Nils Gore, focuses on the potential for community design-build collaboration to work over a distance of more than 1000 miles. Composed of a series of individual design-build projects all working with a community group in New Orleans' 7th ward, the overall effort has resulted in numerous design awards. A prototype for a pre-fabricated shade pavilion produced in Corser's studio was installed in the garden of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York as part of the exhibition: "Design for the Other 90%".

• Architecture

• M. Arch., Virginia, 1993
• Master of Design, Harvard, 2003