ARC3716H S
Instructor: Tei Carpenter
Meeting Section: L0101
Friday, 9:00am - 12:00pm

While the city has historically been a site of documentation and drawing for architects, more recently it has been a lens to understand contemporary conditions and develop a position towards the city—and architecture—through research, close observation, and techniques of representation. To that end, in a number of contemporary practices such ways of seeing have generated projects on, in and for the city. This course will trace a lineage of architects drawing— and sometimes also writing—the city including Piranesi, Rem Koolhaas, Dogma and Atelier Bow Wow. With heightening socio-political issues today, we will also examine ways of representing cities in terms of materials and energy in the work of practices such as Kiel Moe and Design Earth. Finally we will investigate the translation of drawing on the city as a means to develop concepts for spatial interventions through case studies of architects such as Atelier Bow Wow, Raumlabor and Assemble. Course meetings will vary from week to week and be a combination of discussions about assigned readings, close readings and presentations of case studies, guest lectures, and experimentation and development of representational and observational techniques. The final project will propose a position towards the city through textual and visual means.