Arch 121 - Community Building, Building Community (Hewlett Program)

Institution:

Washington University in St Louis

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Description:

Using St. Louis as the starting point, and through extensive walking tours and discussions, the course gradually reveals to students an interrelated set of histories that have given shape both to St. Louis specifically and to American metropolitan landscapes generally. The walking tours take something of a core sample of St. Louis, both geographically and historically. Along the core sample, the students encounter communities old and new, large and small, rich and poor, rising and falling, heterogeneous and homogeneous, successful and unsuccessful, flourishing and devastated. Through these tours and readings and discussions, crucial questions concerning the ethics of architecture within larger social and ethical frameworks begin to take shape. The students' firsthand observations and reading are further reinforced and challenged through visits with and/or reviews by a wide range of people from the various communities-people who collectively represent not just a wide range of opinions, but often diametrically opposed opinions, as well. Architects build walls, literally and figuratively, and this course explores what happens on the other side of the wall, literally and figuratively, and how the act of building in the middle of people's lives-and questions of where, how, and for whom-affect and are affected by the people on both sides of the wall. CBTL course.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wustl.edu

Phone Number:

(314) 935-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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