Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Catalog - 2016-2017
ARCH 489 - ARCHITECTURE EXPANDED
Long Title: ARCHITECTURE EXPANDED: CONTEXT, SCALE, AGENCY
Department: Architecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate
Description: For more than 2 decades, new scales of context have been a pervasive paradigm for Architecture. Suggesting infrastructural, ecological or political scale shifts for design, this paradigm has sparked a prevalent interest in emergent urban conditions, larger territories as well as interdisciplinary juxtapositions. In parallel, however, of paramount importance has been the accumulation of new questions in relation to architectural agency, disciplinary specificity and form. In an attempt to explore this proposition further, the seminar will concentrate on an alternative reading for the ideas of context and agency within 20th century architecture & urbanism. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 689. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 489 if student has credit for ARCH 689.