ARC 3741 & 5745 Urban Architecture Florida International University Urban Architecture in the 20th Century ARC3741 & ARC 5745 Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:30-11:00 Professor Gray Read, readg@fiu.edu (Office Hours: Tuesdays and Thursdays 11-2) Purpose: This seminar will explore debates on urban architecture surrounding the rise of Modernism in the 1920s and will follow those lines of thought into current discussions of architectural design in cities. We will discuss the roots and implications of approaches to urbanism from modernist utopias to the rebuilding of Berlin. Course will stress critical thinking and writing. Structure of Course: Seminar discussion. Students will present readings and topics. Required readings must be completed for each class, the quality of discussion depends on participation. Graduate students are required to read additional texts listed as “grad” in schedule Text: Readings are downloadable on course website and are available in reader at the University Copy Center. In-Class Presentations: Each student will present their research on a topic and will lead the class in discussion. Quizzes: Each class will have a discussion question. Students will discuss, then write their answers to be handed in. Essays : Each student will do research on a specific topic and write a term paper 20 pages in length. Assignments over the term will lead students through the process of research and writing: a statement of topic, research proposal, bibliography and an outline. Written work will be due at the beginning of class. Writing counts. I will edit and grade essays then you will rewrite to improve both the clarity of your ideas and the quality of writing. Absenses: University policy states if you have three absences, you fail the course Tips: Keep up. Do the reading, Do the reading, Do the reading Take notes. Keep a dedicated notebook for this course. Take notes on both the reading and discussion. Sketches help. Come to lectures; You are required to attend all departmental lectures. Grading Scheme: Class Participation/Quizzes 40 Presentations 20 Term Paper 40 Total 100 points To get an A: Do a good job on everything; put extra ideas/effort into it. To get a B: Do a good job on everything To get a lower grade: Do less ARC 3741 & 5745 Urban Architecture Schedule January 10: Urban Metaphors: The city as theater, the city as world, city as body, city as machine Reading: Camillo Sitte, “Introduction” City Planning according to Artistic Principles, 1889 (excerpt) Otto Wagner, Great Cities, 1911 (excerpt) January 12: Discussion January 17: Modern Mass Utopia Reading: Le Corbusier, “A Contemporary City” in City of Tomorrow, 1925 Frank Lloyd Wright, “Decenralization and the New Scale of Spacing” in When Democracy Builds, 1944 Grad: Frank Lloyd Wright, “Organic Architecture” in When Democracy Builds, 1944 Recommended: Fishman, Robert, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century (MIT Press, 1999) January 19: Discussion Statement of Topic and Bibliography due: 2 pages January 24: Surrealist Stroll: city of Memory and Dream Reading: Louis Aragon, Paris Peasant (excerpt) Grad: Michel de Certeau, "Walking in the City" in The Practice of Everyday Life Recommended: Thomas Mikal ed. Surrealism and Architecture (Routledge Press, 2003) January 26: Discussion Due: Research Proposal (3 pages) and Bibliography (1 page) January 31: Rationalism: CIAM, Post-war reconstruction Reading: CIAM, Athens Charter (excerpt) Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities (excerpt) Grad: Victor Gruen, “Cityscape and Landscape” Recommended: Eric Mumford, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960 (MIT Press, 2000) February 2: Discussion February 7: New Babylon, Archigram Reading: Gilles Ivain, “Formulary for a New Urbanism” Constant, New Babylon (excerpt) Recommended: Mark Wigley, Constant’s New Babylon (010 Press, 1998) Simon Sadler, The Situationist City, (MIT Press, 1999) February 9: Discussion Rewrite of Research Proposal Due ARC 3741 & 5745 Urban Architecture February 14: City of Desire: Delirious New York Reading: Rem Koolhaas, “Life in the Metropolis” or “the Culture of Congestion” Grad: “Appendix: A Fictional conclusion” in Delirious New York Recommended: Rem Koolhaas, Mutations (Actar, 2001) February 16: Discussion February 21: Self Organizing Cities Reading: Christopher Alexander, New Theory of Urban Design (excerpt) Grad: Renee Chow, “Beginnings of a Production System” In Suburban Space Recommended: http://www.calresco.org/sos/sosfaq.htm February 23: Discussion February 28: American Strip and Suburb Reading; Venturi, Rauch and Scott-Brown, “A Significance for A&P Parking Lots or Learning from Las Vegas” (excerpt) Grad: Denise Scott-Brown and Robert Venturi, “On Ducks and Decoration” Recommended: Stan Allen, “Urban Natures” in The State of Architecture at the beginning of the 21st Century. March 2: Discussion Due: Outline 6 pages March 7: Defensive Cities Reading: Mike Davis, "Fortress Los Angeles: the Militarization of Urban Space" Recommended: Mike Davis City of Quartz March 9: Discussion March 14: The Granite Garden: Natural Systems in Cities Reading: Ann Spirn, Granite Garden (excerpt) Recommended: Timothy Beatley, Green Urbanism Ann Spirn, The Language of Landscape March 16: Discussion March 21: Spring Break, Enjoy March 23: Spring Break, Enjoy March 28: New Urbanism/ Suburbanism Reading: Plater-Zyberk & Duany, Suburban Nation (excerpt) Recommended: New Urbanism: Peter Calthorpe vs. Lars Larup March 30: Discussion Due: Term Paper April 4: Theatre of the City Reading: Read “Theatre of Public Space” Recommended: Tschumi, Event-Cities 3: Concept vs. Context vs. Content April 6: Discussion ARC 3741 & 5745 Urban Architecture April 11: Networked City Reading: William Mitchell, “Imagining E-Topia” Grad: Stan Allen, James Corner “Urban Natures” April 13: Review April 18: Jury Week, No Class April 20 April 25: Absolute final deadline for rewrites of term paper May 1: Grades Due ARC 3741 & 5745 Urban Architecture Urban Architecture Course Bibliography Spring, 2006 Alexander, Christopher. 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