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3.00 Credits
Architects, planners, and social reformers have addressed urban issues of poverty, crime, delinquency, labor unrest, and class and ethnic tensions through activist models of the public library and school, the YMCA, the playground, and the model home-or by a retreat from the city in the form of utopian settlements. This seminar examines the history of environmentalist thinking and social reform in the United States and to some extent, Europe, from the Enlightenment to World War II, including the work of Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Law Olmstead, Ernest Flagg, and Frank Lloyd Wright and critics such as Jane Jacobs and Prince Charles. The class becomes familiar with reform architecture and its context and assesses the effectiveness of this strategy as a solution to social problems. Open to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students. Fulfills history/theory requirement.
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3.00 Credits
What is American about American architecture? Architects, historians, and theorists have asked this question throughout our nation's history, but it gains renewed importance in this age of globalization. Can we, should we, continue to apply national labels to our architecture? This seminar examines the architectural culture of the United States in the 20th century, with special attention to the relationship between national identity and the internationalizing forces of modernity, particularly European modernism. Through analysis of theoretical writings, developments in education and practice, and key projects such as the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition, the Illinois Institute of Technology, and U.S. embassies around the world, students gain insight into the dynamic between the local and the global in the design of the built environment. Course requirements include in-class presentations, field trips, and a substantial research paper. Fulfills history/theory elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar explores the mid-century architectural modernism and its relationship to visual imagery, finance, and labor. It focuses on Bertrand Goldberg's Marina City, a pioneering mixed-use housing complex completed in 1964 in Chicago. With its unique circular form, Marina City quickly became a popular icon of modern lifestyle and was often represented in film, magazines, and on record covers. A study of Marina City's design, construction, promotion, and reception extend into a detailed study of Goldberg's entire opus, contextualizing his work within the larger trajectory of the Chicago School(s) of Architecture. The course draws comparisons to the work of Goldberg's educators, such as Mies van der Rohe and Josef Albers, as well as the work of other Chicago architects such as Walter Netsch and Harry Weese. Goldberg's work is conceptualized within a broader socioeconomic context, illuminating his buildings with a selection of primary theoretical texts relevant to architectural modernism. Course requirements include weekly reading summaries, in-class discussions, presentations, and a substantial research project. There is an opportunity for an optional class field trip to Chicago to visit some of Goldberg's most significant buildings, as well as buildings by other notable architects. Open to graduate and upper-level undergraduate students. Fulfills history/theory elective requirement for M.Arch. students.
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3.00 Credits
Architecture and the built environment of the American city has been an instrumental force in the ongoing construction and definition of racial, gender, and sexual identities. Through intensive reading, discussion, and visual presentations, students investigate the spatial structuring of racism, segregation, and desegregation; the relationship between suburbanization and the middle-class ideology of separate spheres; the impact of the integration of women in the factory and office; and the role of gender and race in the design and programming of public and private institutions, including libraries, parks, schools, Masonic temples, and the YMCA/YWCA. During the semester, students write weekly response papers, give several in-class presentations, and develop an independent research project.
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3.00 Credits
This seminar reviews the history of gardening in the Western tradition from the Renaissance to the present and in the Chinese and Japanese traditions. Park-making, neighborhood design, and the rise of landscape architecture as a profession receive attention, and several classes are held at notable St. Louis examples. Course requirements include readings, a design or research project, and a final exam. Fulfills history/theory elective.
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3.00 Credits
The first half of the course traces the major civilizations of central Mexico from 1500 BC until the Spanish conquest after 1400 AD, focusing on developments in architecture and landscape; calendarics and cosmology; ceramics; the ballgame and sacrificial rituals; gods, myths and legends; language and hieroglyphics; and political, religious, and social organization. The survey features detailed and extended tours of specific sites by means of drawings, maps, slides, and digital images. We may even attempt a couple of virtual tours online. In the second half, we deal with the Mayan area, ranging from the lowland jungles of Chiapas and Yucatan to the Peten and the highlands of Belize and Guatemala. High points include the Jaguar dynasty of Yaxchilan, the reign of Pacal at the hybrid site of Palenque, and the demise of 18 Rabbit in the city of Copan, Honduras. Tikal is featured as the culmination of Mayan culture, and the Chenes, Rio Bec, and Puuc styles also are examined. See a complete and independent cultural development going back at least 7000 years and equal in greatness to Egypt, Greece, or Rome. This is also a chance to examine civilizations existing at the margins of ecology and sustainability and how they may at times succumb when the limits have been reached. Students are encouraged to focus on a particular area of interest for further inquiry, to be developed into a paper or a project. Fulfills the history/theory elective requirement.
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey of the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in the context of the rapidly changing technological and social circumstances of the past 120 years. In addition to tracing the usual history of modern architecture, this course also emphasizes understanding of the formal, philosophical, social, technical, and economic background of other important architectural directions in a global context. Topics range from architects' responses to new conditions in the rapidly developing cities of the later 19th century, through early 20th-century theories of perception and social engagement, to recent efforts to find new bases for architectural interventions in the contemporary metropolis. This course is required for all M.Arch. 3 students.
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history of architecture from its origins until the beginnings of the modern period from a global perspective, focusing on patterns of interaction and exchange between and within both elite and vernacular building cultures. Using selected examples from Eurasia, sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas, the course traces the major elements of change and development in the design on the earth's built environment including technologies and materials, typology, the organization of labor and capital systems, and the codification and transmission of architectural knowledge and symbolism to the profession and the public. Course requirements include a mid-term, final exam, and research paper.
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3.00 Credits
The course studies the history of utilization of one specific building material within the disciplines of art and architecture through readings and precedent analysis by students. Concrete is the focus for the spring semester. Physical properties, chemical makeup, and possibilities for tectonic and material expression also are explored. Exercises employing the material allow students to gain direct experience with its characteristics. The final project is a habitable construction from the material. A small number of field trips to appropriate sites in and around St. Louis are scheduled.
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3.00 Credits
In coordination with the Materials Center and its development of a materials database, this course seeks to provide methodologies for searching for new or unfamiliar materials for design projects, evaluating those materials for sustainability and then using a selection of those materials in an installation at the Sam Fox School. Students begin by researching a selection of materials of their choosing; they collect samples of these materials and record their method of material search, evaluating their process of selection in the context of the design of materials, in addition to references of notable precedents. Students also evaluate materials for workability. The final third of the semester is spent employing a selection of materials in group projects that result in installations in the Sam Fox School. The course is organized into lectures and working sessions. There are a number of guest lecturers. Grades are determined based upon attendance, materials research, and the final design project. Attendance is extremely important and missing class (without a legitimate excuse) directly affects your grade.
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