ARCH 464G - Drawing and Urbanism

Institution:

Washington University in St Louis

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This class investigates the tools of representation from an era when there was widespread belief in the use of new technologies. Visually, spatially and in nuance of ideology, the groups of the Metabolists, Archigram, and the Situationists hold an indirect conversation regarding the status of society where the abstract qualities of media and technology gain significance within a context of liberating freedom, leisure, and mobility of a post-industrial class. We examine the cultural image of their representations, their consideration of ideological frameworks to privilege constructive environments, the desire to analyze through data and diagram the essential qualities of site and the ability to connect spatiality with local conditions and temporal events. Activities are split between lecture/discussion and the making of models anticipated for exhibition in the Kemper Art Museum, Gallery of Art as part of a larger proposal on drawing and urbanism. The models act as a vehicle for rediscovery and allow for careful consideration of their design intentions. To explore the ambiguous dialogue between drawing and models, the two would be exhibited alongside one another; the models constructed of similar materials as in the 1960s, with the added precision of digital fabrication and consequential translation with drawing. The representations of this time provide a point of reference for current debates on technology and social freedoms. Given that drawings, diagrams and models act as theoretical constructs of projected desires in the world of architecture, these instruments test out ideas regarding networking and specifics of local site conditions that describe anticipated events and possibilities.

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3.00

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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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