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A46 ARCH 454BCivic Buildings and Perimeter Architecture in the St. Louis Park System: A Study on Fairground Park3.0 Units
Description:This seminar is a design research course examining the Saint Louis park system's complexity from an architectural and identity lens, primarily focused on built works inside the parks and their perimeter architecture. A comparative analysis will focus on Fairground Park at its center. This course provides an overview of the park's social and political history, from the early 20th century to present-day planning. With more than 100 parks in the city, students will work through comparative analyses to study interior and perimeter architecture: civic buildings, housing, infrastructure, and memorials. The architectural and social narratives result in unique community identities and the persistent challenge of disinvestment in under-resourced neighborhoods. Because these parks are anchor points in the city, the course will also consider park-based connective routes to other primary urban hubs. This research project will enhance students' understanding of the civic and social domain while they explore typology and case-study analysis techniques. In particular, students will investigate Fairground Park in North St. Louis as a central focus, including the perimeter bounding this 132-acre urban park. Fairground Park was founded in 1908 as a city park after it was previously sited as the St. Louis Agricultural and Mechanical Fairgrounds, where it hosted the St. Louis Exposition from 1856 to 1902. Attention shifted to Forest Park in 1904, when it became a focal point of the city as the location of the World's Fair, with designs from the same landscape architect, George Kissler. Located near Fairground, College Hill, and O'Fallon, Fairground Park sits within predominantly black communities with high land vacancy percentages. The park itself was a historic racial conflict location, eventually leading to the desegregation of public pools following an injunction against St. Louis by George W. Draper II, an African-American lawyer and civil rights leader who filed suit in 1950. Fair
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