ARC3308H S
Instructor: Hans Ibelings
Meeting Section: L9101
Synchronous; June 21st - August 8th
Tuesday, Thursday, 9:00am - 12:00pm

Given how global warming, ecological decline and technological advances are changing life on Earth, it is urgent to investigate their implications for the future of architecture, and for architecture of the future. This seminar explores the near future of architecture at the intersection of ecology and technology. It juxtaposes current architectural views of the future with those developed around 1970, the first moment the interrelatedness of ecology and technology arose as a central theme.

During the first half of the course, which consists of lectures, readings, discussions, and presentations, each student will develop, and present, an informed speculation about what could have become of a futuristic project from the recent past (ranging from Yona Friedman’s ville spatiale to Stanley Tigerman’s Instant City, and from Arata Isozaki’s City in the Air to Ettore Sottsass’s The Planet as Festival). In the second half of the course, students will develop their own fourfold scenario pertaining to a potential, a possible, a probable, and a plausible architectural future of their choice.