Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Architecture

Meeting:  (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

 

Section Max Enrollment: 20

Section Enrolled: 3

Enrollment data as of: 19-MAY-2024 10:32AM

 

 

 

Description: This seminar will concentrate on zoning and the transformation of space--through cultural, social, legal and political methods. This subject is a fundamental consideration in architecture and urban planning. The topic is due in part to the university's location in Houston which is the largest city in the United States without a formal zoning code--which is both a signifier and emblem of the wildcatting culture, but which is also a contested policy that comes up for reevaluation every four years. The course will begin with a condensed overview of 'zoning' that additionally will expose the representation of utopic and dystopic communities ranging in example from the settings in Ackerman's Jeanne Dielman, Tsai's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone, the slums on Tondo in Manila, Olmstead's planned community of Kohler, Wisconsin, Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation to Frank Sharp's development Sharpstown in Houston, Texas.