As the economic constraints upon architectural practices only increase, it becomes ever more necessary for future architects to have the ability to question and critique our society's supposedly fixed technologies, ideologies, and institutions. "Critical Making" is a term that describes our approach to teaching how buildings and environments are made, while simultaneously encouraging students to ask how they might be better made, or even if they ought to be made at all.

• Professor David Gissen's "Architecture and the Jewish Subject" conference, 2004
• Professor Chrisintine Gorby’s research into domestic, “gendered", and sacred spaces
• Professor Donald Kunze's articles and seminars on "Boundary Language" and “screen theory.
  (reception of the arts (InArt3),intersense journal)
• Visiting Professor Marco Frascari's theory seminar on drawing and the human body, 2004
• Conference on "Synaesthesia" (the overlapping of sense impressions), 2004
• Professor Katsu Muramoto's studio trip to Japan and Japanese architecture course
• Professor Darla Lindberg's research into the architect’s role as “knowledge broker", systems integration, and decision-making processes
• Professor Jawaid Haider's research into children's perception of space
• Fall 2003 symposium on architectural education
• American Indian Housing Initiative design-build activities
• Architectural engineering professor John Messner’s “4D” computer modeling of the construction of the Stuckeman Family Building for SALA