Special Problems in Architecture
Arch 5301 · 3 Semester Credit Hours
Prerequisite: College approval. Individual study projects in architecture of special interest to students. May be repeated for credit.
WOMEN & ARCHITECTURE
Arch 5301 · Instructor: Hendrika Buelinckx, PhD
This course explores issues relating to women and architecture. It traces female contributions to architecture in the past, assesses their status in the present, and strategizes on how to envision their role in the future. Topics for the readings, lectures, and discussions will be culled from a wide variety of sources—briefly reviewing the classical tradition, critically examining their contributions to the modern architecture of the twentieth century, scrutinizing their present status, and distilling conclusions for future action. This chronological—then, now, next—review of issues pertaining to women and/in architecture aims to provide students with a basic framework to assess contemporary and future architectural practices.
Community - Adaptable Mobile Health Care Facility
Arch 5301 · Instructor: Bryan Buie
How can portable, expandable space-frame structures be used to design mobile vaccination and examination centers for under-served urban and rural communities?
The lack of accessibility of health care facilities is often an obstacle to low-income families. Uninviting and labyrinthine health care centers can feel dehumanizing.
Our ultimate objective is to create/offer comforting and inviting spaces to receive medical treatment.
GARDEN IN THE MACHINE
Arch 5301 · Instructor: Jeffrey S. Nesbit
No longer do we only find the romance of the machine in the garden. Instead, isolated enclosures separated nature and redefined the garden entirely. Overlapped by cultural consumption and politics, planetary imagination stimulates a valuable framework for exploring environmental limitations over a technological foreground. Theories and design practices, including subjects found in science fiction, open critical questions on the status of our environment here on Earth. This seminar interrogates the role of the planetary landscape in a post-pandemic society to discuss enclosed forms of capital to the exclusive boundaries of territory and politics.
MAPPING MIGRATION: CLIMATE CHANGE + URBAN ECOLOGIES OF COSTA RICA
Arch 5301 · Instructor: Peter Raab
Costa Rica, like much of the ‘new world' was not simply discovered, but conquered by the Spanish conquistadors in a 50-year war of attrition on the 150,000 indigenous peoples living throughout the diverse landscape. Costa Rica's unique location, straddling the North and South America continent, was divided by the Spanish into two distinct cultural areas due to its geographical location in the Intermediate Area, between MesoAmerican and the Andean cultures, with influences of both cultures. For the next 300 years, Costa Rica was a colony of Spain. Unfortunately, many of the indigenous people perished from disease, were enslaved or murdered by the Spanish during its reign, almost to the point of extinction as their numbers dwindled to an estimated 10,000. As a result, Costa Rica's culture has been greatly influenced by the culture of Spain, and a mixing mestizo of cultures from Europe with populations of Caribbean and the Americas. Up until the creation of the Panama canal in 1910, people would migrate across this land bridge and through Costa Rica.
Earth Based Construction Systems
Arch 5301 · Instructor: Ben K. Shacklette
Many types of earthen or “mud” based construction materials and systems are used around the world by a substantial portion of the global population, particularly in the rural villages and townships of the rapidly developing areas of the world. Lawrence Keefe, author of ‘Earth Building Methods & Materials, Repair & Conservation' estimates that “at least 30% of the world's population (over 2 billion people) live in houses constructed of raw earth.” Earthen building, often combined with numerous other construction methods and materials, plays a pivotal role in satisfying the urgent need for new buildings necessitated by population increases and migration patterns as seen throughout the world in developing countries today.
Land Arts of the American West
Arch 5301 · Instructor: Chris Taylor
No longer do we only find the romance of the machine in the garden. Instead, isolated enclosures separated nature and redefined the garden entirely. Overlapped by cultural consumption and politics, planetary imagination stimulates a valuable framework for exploring environmental limitations over a technological foreground. Theories and design practices, including subjects found in science fiction, open critical questions on the status of our environment here on Earth. This seminar interrogates the role of the planetary landscape in a post-pandemic society to discuss enclosed forms of capital to the exclusive boundaries of territory and politics.
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