Course Schedule - Spring Semester 2009

     

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ARCH 614 001 (CRN: 23739)

LIMITS OF LEGIBILITY

Long Title: LIMITS OF LEGIBILITY: UNWINDING THE OBJECT AND THE URBAN
Department: Architecture
Instructor: Schaum, Troy
Meeting: 9:30AM - 12:00PM R (5-JAN-2009 - 17-APR-2009) 
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
 
Section Max Enrollment: 20
Section Enrolled: 8
Enrollment data as of: 18-MAY-2024 9:17AM
 
Additional Fees: None
 
Final Exam: Final Exam Unknown
 
Description: This seminar aims to look at the current architectural discourse by tracing the fissures that developed around the status of the object and the reading of context that emerged as a reaction to the disciplines mid-century obsession with utility and the relentlessness of post-war sprawl that seemed to render current modes of architectural production impotent. This epic spun-off parallel discourses around modes of reading, one focused on the legibility of meaning in form and the other around reading practices focused on emergent urban conditions. The seminar aims to trace the path of language-based reading practices from Rowe to Eisenman, research-based narrative that spans from Venturito Koolhaas and map the complex of spaces that lie between them and have mutated to the present. UG/GR equivalent: ARCH 414.