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  • 3.00 Credits

    This seminar examines mid-century modernist architecture and art works by the Japanese Metabolist artists and architects, the British Archigram architects, and the Dutch artist Constant Nieuwenhuys, an early member of the group of European artists and activists known as the Situationist International. Each offers distinct approaches to experimental urbanism, and while many of their projects are proposals for megastructures, this seminar concentrates less on the monumental built works and more on the influential force of their drawings and models. This seminar examines these representations and their exploration of the city as a complex interrelated organism that embraces networked systems of urban circulation, adaptable habitats, and the future promise of engineering technologies. The course draws comparisons with their contemporaries such as Hans Hollein, Arata Isozaki, and Guy Debord, as well as predecessors such as Alison and Peter Smithson, R. Buckminster Fuller, Kenzo Tange, and Aldo van Eyck. The seminar studies the representations of these groups in relation to the social movements of the 1960s and examines contemporary theoretical texts exploring their position in architectural modernism. The course requires weekly readings, in-class discussions, and a research project. The Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum exhibition, "Metabolic City," complements the study of these works, with originals and reproductions on exhibit during the course of the semester. Open to graduate-level students and upper-level undergraduate students. Fulfills the history/theory elective requirement.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introductory course that teaches the student to recognize and manipulate fundamental elements of composition, line, form, space and modeling. Emphasis is placed on working accurately from observation, with an introduction to other methodologies. Students work in a variety of media. Demonstrations and illustrated lectures supplement studio sessions and outside projects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introductory course that teaches the student to recognize and manipulate fundamental elements of line, tone, texture, volume and plane with relation to representational drawing. Students work in a wide variety of media and techniques (charcoal, pencil, pastels and wet media) from the model, still life and environment. Demonstrations and illustrated lectures supplement studio sessions and outside projects.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to basic design principles and their application on a 2-dimensional surface. Investigation of the functions and properties of the formal elements and their organization through the use of relational schemes. Includes an introduction to color and basic color theory. Problems stress systematic approach to visual communication.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to basic design principles and their application on a 2-dimensional surface. Investigation of the functions and properties of the formal elements and their organization through the use of relational schemes. Includes an introduction to color and basic color theory. Problems stress systematic approach to visual communication.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to basic design principles and their application to 3-dimensional form and real space and time. The design vocabulary is broadened through exercises that deal with mass, volume, weight, gravity, and movement. Students learn to use a variety of materials, tools and processes.
  • 3.00 Credits

    An introduction to basic design principles and their application to 3-dimensional form and real space and time. The design vocabulary is broadened through exercises that deal with mass, volume, weight, gravity, and movement. Students learn to use a variety of materials, tools and processes.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduction to painting processes and materials. While there is emphasis on oil painting, students also are introduced to watercolor and acrylic paints and a wide variety of painting surfaces. Subject matter is varied, beginning with still-life material and ending with direct painting from the model. Technical skills and content are dealt with at the individual student's level.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Introduction to painting processes and materials. While there is emphasis on oil painting, students also are introduced to watercolor and acrylic paints and a wide variety of painting surfaces. Subject matter is varied, beginning with still-life material and ending with direct painting from the model. Technical skills and content are dealt with at the individual student's level.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Explores contemporary sculptural concepts and processes in various media, including latex, plaster, plastics, metal, and wood fabrication, with emphasis on development of technical skills at whatever level of advancement is suited to the experience of the student.
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