In the developing world, excessive demand for living spaces has depressed architectural value; a design for liveliness is superseded by spaces that have deterred people from having a good quality of life. Not only the overpopulation, but we are inevitably facing more crucial disasters and complex social structures. As a result, the design of cities is increasingly complex. Imprudently built cities without thorough consideration can bring irreversible consequences and become an anthropogenic disaster which makes the impacts get worse. At this point, the most intriguing question then came out of my curiosity and my ambition in resolving the issues of built environments in urban settlements. How architecture contributes to whole cities and neighborhoods? How microscale makes an impact on macroscale? What is the true architecture of urbanism? In the Architecture of the City, Aldo Rossi explained that Urban architecture not only forms a city, but it ultimately becomes the city. In order to investigate designs that could be an answer of my initial questions, knowing beyond city’s planning is significantly necessary. This is a call to explore specific spatial, cultural, and infrastructural practices with a thorough understanding of construction systems to expand possibilities in architectural form and typology, as well as rethink alternate models of urbanization. In essence, my aspiration is to find and reshape architecture that will engender new forms of living characterized by a prominent feature of quality urban life. Spaces of Alterity: (co)Living class could provide me an opportunity to question the fringe between “private” and “public” which I believe is significantly important for designing urban architectural typology. Being a part of the Rural-Urban Building Innovation Lab’s research team allowed me to explore the balance between high-tech and low-tech to hybridize indigenous design to urban architecture which could be a novel architectural approach to challenge crises. A+D studio taught by Jeremy Foster also helped me understand a similar topic more clearly when I read about how Singapore used architecture and infrastructure systems to create a new environment for citizens from one of Jeremy Foster’s readings, Ecologies of Dwelling. Both interestingly reflect my initial questions and create an analogy of how architecture could be an intervention of the city and change on a city scale. Prototypologies studio taught by Jesse LeCavalier also aimed for a better understanding of the potential of a new form of architecture and urban infrastructure. Consequently, all studios and electives then interestingly reflect my initial questions and create an analogy of how architecture could be an intervention of a city and change on a city scale.