Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LIMITS OF LEGIBILITY: UNWINDING THE OBJECT AND THE URBAN

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

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. Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 614. Mutually Exclusive: Cannot register for ARCH 414 if student has credit for ARCH 614.