Media Electives
Arch 4341 · 3 Semester Credit Hours
Analog or digital media options chosen from approved list. May be repeated for credit.
Drawing Takes Form
Arch 4341 · Instructor: Bryan Buie
This course is conceived to be fundamentally and aggressively exploratory. Our investigations will not focus on one specific discipline but engage in a broader inquiry that tests theories and practices related to working with both actual and virtual spaces. We will pursue spatiotemporal studies between the fields of architecture, industrial design, and sculpture. We will research, examine, test, propose and critique essential visual, physical, and conceptual structures related to spatial phenomena. Other discussion topics that parallel our studio work will include questions of (dis)advantages of reductive analysis versus comprehensive synthesis (binary analysis versus systems thinking), identifying “simplicity” of process and resultant form, and the cycle of failure and resultant redundancy related to organic design processes.
Off the Wall
Arch 4341 · Instructor: Anali Gharakhani
Graffiti art, although technically illegal, has become a staple of major places like New York and Los Angeles since the 1980s. Much of the existing architecture in these metropolitan cities occupy some form of it. Often associated with railroad yards, “tagging” has gone from low brow vandalism to commissioned and well-paid urban murals illustrated by street artists. Its complex history, particularly in the 20th century, points to an art form largely utilized by black and Latino artists to express demonstrative messages against oppression, the police and asserting political unrest. Today graffiti symbolizes accessible art that defines a city's expression of multicultural demography. Meanwhile works of graffiti can occupy a multitude of surfaces that are not necessarily indicative of any given city's native architecture. Generic or specific, any and all, mostly vertical, rigid surfaces are fair game to hosting graffiti. The subject matter of the work, although specific to the artists' style, color palette, geometric language, use of symbolism, etc. in most cases does not address the location of its host. This relationship between the host site (architecture) and the parasite (graffiti) will drive our visualization investigation this semester.
Expecting Uncertainty: a toolkit for a restless climate
Arch 4341 · Instructor: Dalia Munenzon
Extreme climate events are reintroducing, with high intensity, uncertainty and volatility to our built environment. Climate adaptation repositions architecture and the design practice with the agency to respond to the unexpected. In this course, we will map hybrid landscapes to represent the complexities of the natural and built environment, examine and visualize climate impacts and events across certainty scales (from the stationary to the uncanny) and time horizons. We will construct visual narratives of spatial and environmental conditions to allow the critical examination of strategies used in practice to address climate adaptation.
Digital Media in Neoteric Dimension (DiMeND)
Arch 4341 · Instructor: Kuhn Park
DiMeND introduces design as a computational enterprise in which mediating technologies are developed to compose and describe design and architecture.
HECHO IN COSTA RICA
Arch 4341 (Costa Rica) · Instructor: Jeremy Wahlberg
Costa Rica is located in Central America along the equator. “Costa Rica experiences a tropical climate year round. There are two seasons. The "summer" or dry season is December to April, and "winter" or rainy season is May to November.”
The history of the country combines years of sustainable initiatives, and multiple layers of integration and collaboration occur within their borders. Costa Rica is a laboratory which provides a unique and engaging system for observation and documentation. From populated cities to natural and rural preserves, agriculture, energy, culture and preservation overlap.This semester we endeavor to explore and translate into made work, the connection of these layers. We focus our research on the nexus where architecture and environment cross.
Drawing Architecture + Mapping the City
Arch 4341 (Seville) · Instructor: Pedro Mena Vega
Architecture as a language is a means of communication. This transmission is twofold: on the one hand, it represents reality by producing visual depictions, maps and surveys. On the other, architecture presents new objects which acquire publicity by resorting to shared and recognizable codes of visualization. Thus, drawing architecture and mapping the city may be a way to give a comprehensive overview of the possibilities for expression in our discipline.
Huckabee College of Architecture
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