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ARCHITECTURE (A46) (Dept. Info)

Architecture (Policies)

Walking Class: a Moving Approach to Landscape Architecture

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This course situates a methodology of walking through five critical lenses, and applies this sense-based knowledge to a landscape memorial project in St Louis, MO, USA. We will take our time to read and discuss case studies and critical research within each of the five lenses. Each lens will be accompanied by WALKIE-TALKIES: taking walks with professionals (curators, health care specialists, designers, artists, sociologists, and activists) who can scientifically speak to the walking content in relation to their home discipline, research, and practice. Our aim for this course is to translate methods within the five lenses into a multi-creative design and art tool. This tool will be tested, and put to the service of a wayfinding and monumental landscape design project with the Griot Museum called the Black Herstory Initiative*. Students will conduct sense-based mapping exercises that connect the site-specific stories and shared histories of women in St. Louis who are being honored with public art (wayfinding makers and pedestrian scale signage set in pollinator rain-gardens or repair). Your research will become an important part of this impactful project.

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Ellingsen

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Architectural Design V

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Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of Arch 419 or equivalent. Twelve hours of studio work a week.

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Weil / 300N

[TBA]

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Architectural Design V (Barcelona)

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1:00P-5:20P

TBA

[TBA]

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Architectural Design VI

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Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of Arch 511. Twelve hours of studio work a week.

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TBA

[TBA]

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What Does the Museum Look Like? (Barcelona)

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The Museum, as an architectural typology and emblematic cultural device, is undergoing an intense transformation. This seminar aims to shed light on this typology and the role that museum architecture has as a mechanism to activate present-day communities. Students will conduct research through this type of contemporary culture condenser, which keeps digitalization and globalization. It will also consider the idea that a museum is not only a display or receptacle dedicated to established areas or disciplines such as the arts, science, sports, and industry, among others. The research methodology will analyze and deploy seminal case studies to revisit and propose alternatives for the Museum's evolution as an architectural device for contemporary culture. The course will address and discuss different topics such as the idea of destabilizing the Museum as an institution, dealing with conflict as a positive, alternative way to generate content, and thinking about this typology as a place mainly dedicated to positive interaction, discussion, service and exchange within the community. To compare and acquire a global perception of a constellation of museum types, specific graphic standards will be used to represent the analysis and deployment of case studies. These analyses, as well as the results of the discussions and pieces of work produced during the seminar, could result in a small publication.

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Building Visits (Barcelona)

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In this 3-credit seminar, students will experience first-hand a careful selection of exemplary contemporary architecture conceived through environmental and social considerations. The seminar is divided into two parts; the first is based on case-studies, and the second is a Spring Break architecture travel. The first part consists of a series of lectures delivered by prominent guest practitioners on a single work (in or near Barcelona), followed by a visit with the architect to the building. Through on-site drawing analysis and other exercises, students will unfold the diverse design logics embedded in the building (urban, landscape, energy, material, tectonic and social) to grasp the work holistically. The Spring Break trip will similarly engage with exemplary built works and offices outside of Spain and within Europe. (The exact travel location will be determined according to regional covid restrictions at the time of travel.)

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Garriga

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Critical and Creative Algorithms

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Algorithms play an essential role in contemporary creative design. They are sketches using step-by-step logic. Algorithms are also complicated, invisible components of global information systems. They are devices of surveillance and control. This course combines a historical study of computation and systems design with programming workshops and contemporary readings from critical algorithm studies. Is a computer like a brain? How is programming like using a foreign language? Students will learn about the history of computer hardware and software, how they were used by artists and architects in the twentieth century, and how algorithmic sketches can be used today in various creative design workflows. From recipes and poetry to machine learning and large language models, students will study algorithmics from the perspectives of the humanities, sciences, and creative design. Final projects will combine creative form making with research and writing.

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Weil / 330

Allen

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Visions of a Brighter Future: The History of Progressive Design at Worlds Fairs

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From the time of the Crystal Palace Exposition in 1851, world's fairs have been fraught with boosterism, nationalism and the exploitation of cultures deemed "lesser." But due to the infusion of political will and large amounts of money, they also involved the design and construction of enormous numbers of buildings all at once - resulting in the creation of small cities with their own infrastructure of utilities, waste disposal, police departments, hospitals and power plants. The best architects and engineers of each era were called upon, sometimes in official competitions, to design and build innovative structures that expanded the use of materials and utilized engineering solutions which affected the built environment of the world. The 1893 Chicago World's Fair alone changed the way Americans looked at cities and started the City Beautiful Movement. Many architects designed influential pavilions at world's fairs, including Eliel Saarinen, Alvar Aalto, Oscar Niemeyer, Mies Van Der Rohe, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen, Frei Otto, Moshe Safdie, Kenzo Tange, Thomas Heatherwick, Norman Foster and Buckminster Fuller. Today still-standing legacies of these fairs, including the Eiffel Tower, the Seattle Space Needle, the Montreal Biosphere, Habitat '67 and Zaha Hadid's Bridge Pavilion remind us of past glories. World's Fairs are not relics of the past, but continue to be held today, involving architectural firms in master planning, pavilion design and exhibit creation on a massive scale. Students will be expected to make short 10-15 minute presentations to the class on local sites at assigned times over the course of the term. Other class requirements include regular attendance and class participation in discussions that demonstrate awareness of the required readings. There will also be a short paper at the beginning of the semester and a 15-page final research paper. For this paper students will be expected to document, critically analyze and draw conclusions about a building, structure or landscape at a world's fair.

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Moore

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This course meets for the firs half of the semester.

Start: 1/14/2025 End: 2/25/2025

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Everyday Urbanism: Global and Local Practices

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This course explores how qualities of urbanism are shaped through the aggregation of consistent, repetitive building typologies which subsequently gain difference and character over time through occupation by varied cultures, rituals, and behaviors. Among the relevant methodologies to study the relationship between built form and urban quality are those developed by John Stilgoe, who reads the history and culture of a place in terms of repeated features of development, and Tsukamoto Yoshiharu, founder of Atelier Bow-Wow, who notes how changes in the building typologies of Tokyo have had significant impacts of the public realm of the city. Observations derived from this form of research have a direct impact on how we understand the temporal and experiential qualities of the city, and subsequently, design. Open to upper-level undergraduate students and graduate students. Master of Urban Design students and Urban Design minors receive priority. Students will be registered for the course from the waitlist by the Registrar's Office.

Arch: GAMUD, GAUI, SEP, UI

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Stitelman

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The Critical Evolution of Modern Architecture: CIAM, Team 10, and Other Modern Traditions

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A graduate seminar exploring the critical evolution of the modern movement in architecture, from the founding of the CIAM (International Congresses of Modern Architecture) in 1928 to the emergence, within and parallel to CIAM, of what has sometimes been called the "Other Tradition" of modern architecture, which involved both the work of pivotal individual practitioners, as well as the emergence of collective movements, most particularly Team 10, from 1953-82; a series of regional "schools" of architecture, from 1945-65; and the Neo-Rationalist movement, from 1966-90. The seminar will also explore the work of selected contemporary practices that exemplify the critical evolution of modern architecture. Each class meeting will involve lectures by the two professors regarding the critical evolution of modern architecture, as well as brief student presentations on specific post-WWII projects. The lectures and presentation will form the basis of discussions of the architectural and urbanistic ideas of Le Corbusier, Josep Lluís Sert, Alvar Aalto, Ernesto Rogers, Aldo van Eyck, Jacob Bakema, Alison and Peter Smithson, Candilis-Josic-Woods, Paul Rudolph, William Wurster, Craig Ellwood, Giancarlo de Carlo, Louis Kahn, Colin St John Wilson, Aldo Rossi, as well as contemporary practitioners such as Fumihiko Maki, Charles Correa, Herman Hertzberger, Rafael Moneo, and others. Analytical methods employed in the student presentations will address contextual, cultural, material, constructive, and experiential attributes of buildings.

Arch: GARW, HT, RW

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Mumford, McCarter

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Narratives in Design

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This course provides tools to design students across disciplines, who would like to extend their critical thinking knowledge and curatorial studies in design by engaging topics and experts related to the Sam Fox School public lecture series. Starting from an understanding of design as a culture, the course will help students to frame their ideas and interests and learn how to unfold the work of designers in a crafted and mature way. Through a series of interactive workshops, students will collaboratively find topics of interest in the different disciplines and will find who better can exemplify those interests. This will help the lecture committee to set up the lecture series and will give more agency to the students during our lecture guests visits.

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Weil / 120

Kempf

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This course meets for the first seven weeks of the semester.

Start: 1/15/2025 End: 2/26/2025

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The Island We Eat I: Seeding Resilience in Puerto Ricos Food Future

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"A recipe is more than the food it is made of: the geography of our dinner spills off of the plate." "The Island We Eat" seeks to explore the relationship between food systems and their geomorphology, climate, infrastructure, time and culture. During the 20th century, the transformation of global food production and its processes have homogenized most of the Earth's productive landscapes, diminishing their complexity and impoverishing their ecosystems. This transformation has been so thorough and pervasive that it is increasingly difficult to imagine how things could be any other way. This course will be divided in two parts; each part is 1.5 credit hours. Students can take "The Island We Eat I" or "The Island We Eat II" or both. Those two parts will help build the history of the past, present and future of food systems in the island of Puerto Rico. Each part will be run independently even if the work will built up at the end. Even if Puerto Rico is the perfect environment to grow food, and if the weather, soil and water make the island the perfect environment, the reality is that the island is currently importing more than 80% of the food that people consume. Since we are facing a growing uncertain future in food production and distribution, we will question why Puerto Rico cannot build a more resilient food future. "The Island We Eat I" will explore more global and large-scale facts that impact the island food systems. "The Island We Eat II" will explore which diet and its production can help to build the food sovereignty of the Caribbean island. This is a thinking through drawing course where the research will need to be criticized through the act of drawing across scales.

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Weil / 330

Bonvehi Rosich

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This course meets for the first seven weeks of the semester.

Start: 1/16/2025 End: 2/27/2025

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The Island We Eat II: Seeding Resilience in Puerto Ricos Food Future

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"A recipe is more than the food it is made of: the geography of our dinner spills off of the plate." "The Island We Eat" seeks to explore the relationship between food systems and their geomorphology, climate, infrastructure, time and culture. During the 20th century, the transformation of global food production and its processes have homogenized most of the Earth's productive landscapes, diminishing their complexity and impoverishing their ecosystems. This transformation has been so thorough and pervasive that it is increasingly difficult to imagine how things could be any other way. This course will be divided in two parts; each part is 1.5 credit hours. Students can take "The Island We Eat I" or "The Island We Eat II" or both. Those two parts will help build the history of the past, present and future of food systems in the island of Puerto Rico. Each part will be run independently even if the work will built up at the end. Even if Puerto Rico is the perfect environment to grow food, and if the weather, soil and water make the island the perfect environment, the reality is that the island is currently importing more than 80% of the food that people consume. Since we are facing a growing uncertain future in food production and distribution, we will question why Puerto Rico cannot build a more resilient food future. "The Island We Eat I" will explore more global and large-scale facts that impact the island food systems. "The Island We Eat II" will explore which diet and its production can help to build the food sovereignty of the Caribbean island. This is a thinking through drawing course where the research will need to be criticized through the act of drawing across scales. Prerequisite: A46 560D (The Island We Eat I)

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Weil / 330

Bonvehi Rosich

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This course meets for the last seven weeks of the semester.

Start: 3/6/2025 End: 4/24/2025

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Advanced Seminar in Urban Sustainability I

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This seminar will investigate contemporary theories and methods of sustainable urbanism. Cities are increasingly the means through which a sustainable future for the anthropocene era is constructed. Within the sustainable urbanism paradigm cities are understood as complex self-organizing open systems responding to socially constructed processes, conflicting values, natural resource limitations, extreme natural phenomena, man-made hazards, climate change and competing economic interests that inform urban change, design and development. Consideration will be given to the history, definition and reasoning for the urban sustainability paradigm; the theoretical constructs of sustainability, resiliency, adaptation and regeneration for post-carbon cities; the methods of analysis and measurement for urban sustainability; and the design of cities for livability, social inclusion, environmental performance, cultural diversity and economic equity.

Arch: ESE, GAMUD, GAUI, UI

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6:00P-8:50P

Hoal

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Barcelona City Seminar: History, Evolution, and Current Debates (Barcelona)

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This seminar aims to familiarize students with urban concepts and themes, such as urban fabric, public space, buildability, scale, paths and streets, mixed-use, density, mobility flows, zoning, urban renewal, gentrification, etc., and provide them with basic tools to describe, analyze and articulate proposals in urban contexts. Through field visits, theoretical sessions, debates, and practical exercises, the spectrum of urban issues and themes will be examined with Barcelona as an example and a living laboratory.

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[TBA]

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Architectural Design VII

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Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of Arch 511. Twelve hours of studio work a week.

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TBA

[TBA]

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Professional Practice I

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Develops awareness and understanding of architectural practice including the relation of the profession to society as well as the organization, management and documentation of the process of providing professional services. Covers the areas of 1) project process & economics, 2) business practice & management, and 3) laws and regulations. Prerequisite: 500 level studio placement or above.

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Johannes, Scott

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10:00A-11:20A

Johannes, Scott

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Metropolitan Sustainability

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This seminar will investigate contemporary theory and practice of the design and development of sustainable regions, cities, communities, infrastructures and landscapes. By 2050 three-quarters of the world's population will be living in cities and with cities being the world's largest consumer of resources and a focus of climate change impact, it will be the design of cities that frame the essential theory and practice of sustainability. Consideration will be given to the definition and reasons for the sustainability paradigm; conceptual frameworks for urban sustainability; indicators & measures of sustainability; different sustainability functional categories (water, air, food, energy, transportation, social capital, equity, development patterns & density, etc.); and various approaches to urban sustainability including Regenerative Urbanism, Healthy Cities, Ecological Urbanism, Eco-Urbanity, Resilient Cities, Smart Cities, LEED ND, the Natural Step, ICLEI and ZED Cities. Priority will be given to Master of Urban Design students and Urban Design minors.Students will be registered for the course from the waitlist by the Registrar's Office.

Arch: ESE, GAUI, UI

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Kim

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Thesis Research

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Independent study, tutorial, or other

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Mumford

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Independent study, tutorial, or other

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TBA

TBA

Mumford

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