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ARCHITECTURE (A46) (Dept. Info)

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

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From the very first world's fair, the Crystal Palace Exposition of 1851, world's fairs have been fraught with boosterism, nationalism and the exploitation of cultures deemed "lesser." 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 - often 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 have been tapped, sometimes in official competitions, to design and build structures, buildings and landscapes reflecting stylistic trends and technological innovations of their time. Today we have still-standing legacies of these fairs, including the Eiffel Tower, the Seattle Space Needle, the Musee d'Orsay in Paris, the Plaza de Espana in Seville, The Bridge Pavilion at Expo 2008, The Atomium in Brussels, and The Millennium Dome in London to name just a few. The influence of the 1893 Chicago World's Fair alone changed the way Americans looked at cities and started the City Beautiful Movement, which affected and continues to influence cities worldwide. World's fairs are not a phenomenon of the past, because they continue to be held today, still tapping architects and planners to create visions of a brighter future. This class will allow students to investigate little-known forerunners of more permanent designs and the experimental work of some of the most influential architects that emerged from world's fairs. Requirements will include one in-class report and a final paper.

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Moore

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

Start: 8/31/2023 End: 10/12/2023

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CIAM and Team 10, 1928-81

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This research and writing seminar will look broadly at the ideas and built outcomes of CIAM, the International Congresses of Modern Architecture, 1928-1956. Some of its younger members, notably Alison and Peter Smithson and Aldo van Eyck, then went on to lead the Team 10 group down to 1981. In a period of substantial global changes, CIAM was influential in linking modern architecture to a focus on town planning for all, based on what it identified as the "four functions" of "dwelling, producing, transportation, and relaxation." It offered new models of land subdivision and urban organization, and was a major force in the replacement of the classical system of architecture with what is now usually called "modernism."

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Mumford

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Cite Conditions

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A seminar exploring multiple venues to understand and inspire pre-design strategies based on: A critical observation of the context: The formulation of hypothesis of understanding based on the circumstantial, the factual, the interpreted, the imagined, and the edited, through a series of "case studies," such as Sites with histories, unexpected Sights and philosophical, cinematographic and literary Cites. The course will include lectures and 3 exercises where each of these case studies will be presented, discussed and given as tests of analytical and poetic comprehension. Each exercise will be based on a specific location within the larger St. Louis region. The deliverables will be shown as power point presentations to test the student's ability to communicate effectively through verbal, graphic and written information. Each of the three exercises will be printed at the end of the course as the final deliverable. There will be readings (limited) in Philosophy and/or Art criticism to support the class discussions. Students enrolled in Design Thinking are encouraged to register for this seminar since it will provide important support to Design Thinking requirements.

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Luchini

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

Start: 8/28/2023 End: 10/23/2023

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Programmatic Choreographies

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A seminar exploring multiple venues to understand the program of a building as a strategy for design which operates in support of place, context, circumstance, environment, and form, etc. The formulation of programmatic strategies will be based by critically using conventional "programs," but understood not as a list of room names, but rather as scenarios of human action based on protocols of use, choreographies of movement, alternatives for gathering, and their subsequent required area of occupation. Each of these scenarios will be explored as opportunities to expand the possibilities of the inhabitation of space in order to enhance the experience of architecture. As such, Program is understood as a powerful instrument of inquiry and pre-design which can make effective transitions into calibrated design operations. The course will include lectures and exercises where each of these scenarios will be presented, discussed and given as tests of analytical and strategic propositions. The deliverables will be shown as power point presentations to test the student's ability to communicate effectively through verbal, graphic and written information. Each of the exercises will be printed at the end of the course as the final deliverable. There will be readings (limited) in support the class discussions. Students enrolled in Design Thinking are encouraged to register for this seminar since it will provide important support to Design Thinking requirements.

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Luchini

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

Start: 8/28/2023 End: 10/23/2023

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Advanced Building Systems

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The capstone course in the technology sequence. The course is comprised of a series of lectures related to technical theory, an analysis of technical precedent and an integration exercise. The lectures focus on structure and enclosure systems, active and passive climate control systems, natural and artificial lighting systems, mechanical and electrical services for buildings. During the first half of the course, students conduct the analysis of technical precedent in architecture exercise. Technical precedents will be analyzed relative to their performance characteristics and their relationship to other technologies in the building. During the second half of the semester, students conduct an integration exercise. Students will identify with the help of the instructor, a schematic design suitable for development. Technical systems will be selected based on architectural issues, performance characteristic and systems integration. Prerequisites: Students should complete Stuctures I & II, Environmental Systems I & II, and Building Systems before enrolling in Advanced Building Systems. Students who do not meet the prerequisites must receive the permission of the Graduate Chair in order to enroll.

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Janis, Ahrens

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Kindred Landscapes

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The world is in the midst of an accelerated biodiversity crisis - on track for a mass extinction of species hundreds of times faster than previously estimated. Biodiversity is the degree of variation of life within an ecosystem; its eco-temporalities weave the planet together. As species are threatened and disappear, the impact of fragile, fractured relationships among life on Earth is unfolding at an unprecedented pace. This seminar considers the role of biodiversity in landscape studies and practice. How do we reconcile our living and consumption patterns with the unseen impact that they have on global and local landscape ecologies? How can the built environment address these threats? Global food systems are one of the major drivers of biodiversity loss. How can we understand the spatial, cultural, and ecological relationships between what we eat and the impact on the environment? In an urbanizing and compartmentalized world, how do we generate empathy for our non-human partners on this earth? In this course we will empathetically and immersively reflect on the vital intertwining of ecologic and cultural relationships with the land that have become largely invisible. This class will look towards traditional knowledge systems that reflect life on earth as our kin - our human and non-human relations. Kinship is a sense of affiliation and belonging. Kinship as a practice allows us to identify a shared future on Earth. Assignments will focus on how design and practice can help develop stewardship and reclaiming, not merely reimagining landscape, as reciprocal relationships between humans and the non-human world. We will use local examples to develop relational and experiential landscape design projects. There will be field trips to develop hands-on learning experiences and some intersection with the Mellon Foundation-funded Mississippi River School for Kinship and Social Exchange. Priority is given to students in the MLA program and to Landscape Architecture minors. Students will add themselves to the wait list and will be administratively enrolled in the course.

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Peemoeller

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The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture

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A graduate seminar structured around the themes put forward in the book "The Space Within: Interior Experience as the Origin of Architecture" by Robert McCarter. Throughout human history, and particularly in the modern period, interior space and its experience has served as both the beginning, the initial inspiration for the design of architecture, as well as the end, the final purpose of architecture as it is evaluated through inhabitation. Since the beginning of the modern period, and continuing today, pivotal discoveries in architectural design may be traced back to a generative ideal of intimate interior experience, and the quality of the interior spatial experience of the inhabitants may be shown to be both the primary determinant of the architectural design process, as well as the means of appropriately evaluating a work of architecture after it is built. This seminar explores how interior space has been integral to the development of modern architecture, and how generations of modern architects have engaged interior space and its experience in their design processes, enabling them to fundamentally transform the traditional methods and goals of architectural composition. For the six modern architects we will examine, as well as for many of the most recognized and respected architects practicing today, the conception of the interior spatial experience continues to be the necessary starting point for design, and the inhabitation of interior space remains the primary reason to construct works of architecture. Each class will consist of both faculty lectures based on the chapters of the textbook, The Space Within, and, parallel with the textbook themes, student team analyses and presentations of the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn, Aldo van Eyck. Analytical methods employed in the course cover the full range of contextual, cultural, material, constructive, and experiential attributes of buildings, with particular emphasis on the manner in which the spaces of a building are ordered by the patterns of occupation and the poetics of use, as well as the poetics of construction, or the way in which a building is built, and of what materials it is made, and how all these combine to construct the experience of those who inhabit it.

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McCarter

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This course meets during the first half of the semester.

Start: 8/28/2023 End: 10/23/2023

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Strange Behavior

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Human beings are weird. They do weird things with regularity, so much so that sometimes we believe it is normal behavior. Human beings occupy built space in weird ways that increasingly become normalized, or in ways may be very personal. This semester we will uncover how people USE and OCCUPY space in a variety of ways. This course explores the aspects of research that deal with human beings - how they use the built environment, how they understand the way designers create, how designers make decisions about design, how architecture affects people and its contexts, how design impacts the health of a community and individuals. We will engage people where they are through conducting observations, interviews, and active engagement. You will watch, play with, discuss among, and lead participants of the studies we will conduct, including your own. Think of this as a giant human experiment to understand how human beings interact with space and how that should affect how we design. Students will consider the application of observation and interactional research to everyday practices, design, and decision-making. The semester engages the total understanding of how to design and completion of a short human-subjects study to enhance design. We will meet with community members and engage people at various locations around St. Louis. Site visits will occur regularly throughout the St. Louis Metropolitan area, so be ready to be a part of a traveling research team and an active leader and participant.

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Bliss

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Architecture and Film

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The seminar course will examine the inter-relationships between architecture and film; how architecture plays a significant role in film and how thinking "cinematically" may influence architecture. Lecture will focus on film works by Tarkovsky, Hitchcock, Kubrick and Antonioni among others. Film analysis and presentation required.

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Leet

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

Start: 10/25/2023 End: 12/6/2023

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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. The course fulfills an Urban Design and Urban Issues elective for MUD, MArch & MLA degrees.

Arch: GAMUD, GAUI, UI

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Hoal

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Ideas in Urbanism

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Although the form of cities has reflected the planned and unplanned patterns of human habitation for thousands of years, the origin of the Western urban design discourse officially starts with the 1956 conference intended to discuss the fate of architects in the formation of cities. That fate is still negotiated across the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning, as is the very role and definition of what urban design is and what urban designers do. This course explores the critical ideas and seminal texts that define this urban design discourse with a particular emphasis on the proliferation of numerous "urbanisms" grappling with 21st-century visions of technology, temporality, environmentalism and justice. Grounded in big ideas and critical readings, Ideas in Urbanism explores the world views and intellectual lineages of authors and their seminal texts in an effort to understand how the production, reproduction, contestation, and creation of urban ideas and the cities they produce has led to urbanism now, and to speculate on where urbanism might be tomorrow. This course is open to all MArch, MLA and MUD students. Undergraduates may enroll with permission. MUD students have priority. Students will be enrolled from the waitlist.

Arch: GAMUD, GARW, GAUI, RW

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Samuels

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Theories & Methods of Historical Research

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What is architectural history? This is an advanced reading, writing and discussion seminar intended to better prepare students for research in the history and theory of architecture and urbanism. It is based on the premise that since contemporary design practices are not only data-driven, neutral and ahistorical, the ways that designers' conceptualize their work can benefit from a historically-informed understanding of how various approaches to architectural history have emerged over time. It seeks to consider how architecture and architectural history have been understood in the past, and how the development of the discipline informs contemporary research in architectural history by examining how recent and contemporary historians of the built environment do their work. This course fulfills the History/Theory Research & Writing elective requirement.

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Architectural Design VII

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The third of a three-semester sequence of options design studios in the M.Arch program. Prerequisite: Arch 511/512. Twelve hours of studio work a week.

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Weil / 300N

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Professional Practice I

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Introduction of an awareness and understanding of architectural practice, including the relationship 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, regulations and business ethics. Prerequisite: 500-level studio placement or above. Students will be enrolled from the waitlist. Priority will be given to students enrolled in Degree Project.

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Johannes, Scott

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Thesis Research

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Remote / SF

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