Course:

ARCH 111  Architecture as Media

Professor:

Ivonne Santoyo Orozco  

CRN:

90323

Schedule:

 Wed      9:00 AM - 12:00  Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

This studio-based course introduces students to architectural tools of communication while presenting architecture as a field that communicates not only technical knowledge, but public imaginaries, spatial aesthetics of popular culture and contested ideas. In this way, the course will teach students basic architectural tools of representation as a situated practice of aesthetic production. Students will learn and practice techniques of contemporary digital drafting, diagramming, mapping, modeling and image-making, all of which will be carefully positioned against a survey of paradigmatic moments in the history of architecturally-related visual cultures. Thus, it will span a series of design technique workshops across a range of lectures ranging from the historical emergence of the floorplan, to contextualizing the collages of El Lissitzky to the sci-fi animations of Archigram to the Marxist photocollages of Superstudio to the CGI-rendered culture of late capitalist architecture to the activism of Architecture Lobby, Forensic Architecture and WBYA?, among other crucial episodes in the history of architectural media. Studio work involves weekly assignments. When possible, a field trip will be organized. Estimated costs for studio related assignments and activities is $200. Financial assistance may be available. Please contact instructor. No prior experience required.

 

Course:

ARCH 111 RA  Architecture as Media

Professor:

Ross Adams 

CRN:

90935

Schedule:

 Fri      10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

This studio-based course introduces students to architectural tools of communication while presenting architecture as a field that communicates not only technical knowledge, but public imaginaries, spatial aesthetics of popular culture and contested ideas. In this way, the course will teach students basic architectural tools of representation as a situated practice of aesthetic production. Students will learn and practice techniques of contemporary digital drafting, diagramming, mapping, modeling and image-making, all of which will be carefully positioned against a survey of paradigmatic moments in the history of architecturally-related visual cultures. Thus, it will span a series of design technique workshops across a range of lectures ranging from the historical emergence of the floorplan, to contextualizing the collages of El Lissitzky to the sci-fi animations of Archigram to the Marxist photocollages of Superstudio to the CGI-rendered culture of late capitalist architecture to the activism of Architecture Lobby, Forensic Architecture and WBYA?, among other crucial episodes in the history of architectural media. Studio work involves weekly assignments. When possible, a field trip will be organized. Estimated costs for studio related assignments and activities is $200. Financial assistance may be available. Please contact instructor. No prior experience required.

 

Course:

ARCH 130  Landscape Devices for a Changing Climate: Open Practices Workshop

Professor:

Montserrat Bonvehi-Rosich

CRN:

90327

Schedule:

Mon Fri 2:00PM - 5:00 PM    Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

12

Credits:

2

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities

This intensive workshop will run from Sept 10 to Oct 4.

The effects of a changing climate on the environment around us cannot be entirely foreseen. While there is abundant information on how the climate might change given different economic and political scenarios, no one knows with any certainty how these changes will affect the plants, animals, soils, and complex ecosystem interactions that we depend on locally. While environmental sensing at a planetary scale has alerted us to this condition, a more local approach to monitoring environmental change is needed. This approach must engage with existing reservoirs of vernacular knowledge, bodily practices of careful observation, and a new architectural grammar for registering landscape change. In this short course we will design our own sensing devices to be deployed at the scale of a tree, a house, a lake, or a small forest. Each design will combine a sensor with a protocol for how to collect environmental data. By using sensors like cameras, thermometers, Ph meters, and our own bodily observations of the world, we will create high-resolution, if not necessarily high-tech drawings and images of environmental change. Through a direct engagement with local sites, we will test our insights and design proposals for how to engage with the condition of continuous change in the environment. No prerequisites are required, however students interested in this course should note that the nature of this intensive workshop requires you to be available during the 4 weekends of the course for field trips, workshops and extracurricular activities. Estimated cost of supplies: 50-100USD. Please email Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco (isantoyoorozco@bard.edu) for inquiries.

 

Course:

ARCH 311  Contagiousness, Vulnerable Environments: Architecture as Research

Professor:

Ivan Lopez Munuera

CRN:

90562

Schedule:

 Wed    2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Human Rights

This course will investigate the medicalization of knowledge and the relational aspects of epidemics through their spatialization in the contemporary period and on a global stage.Studies of epidemics tend to focus on the metaphor of a healthy body being attacked by an external agent. But the interconnection of bodies, other bodies, viruses, bacteria, microbes, architectures, cultural practices, technologies, and environments are intrinsically founded in their contagiousness. Ultimately, heterogenous corporality composes a type of architectural entanglement, one that exceeds its understanding as the unfolding of infrastructures, land uses, and buildings. Instead, it becomes a form of collective embodiment that challenges the exceptionality of human flesh as much as its individuality, to understand flesh as both infiltrating and something being infiltrated by viruses, buildings, media, regulations, and policies. In sum, studying epidemics and architecture is studying their vulnerable condition. Researching epidemics is researching architecture. A weekly series of readings and discussions will introduce the history of pandemics and how architecture is shaped by them, but also how architecture shapes pandemics in return. In parallel with discussions on the topic, the course will provide a platform for the development of a curatorial project in which students will work on a series of selected case studies through different elements: from maps to interviews, from films to drawings, from historic documents to recreations. We will learn how to make a research navigating archives, situating debates, compiling information, conceptualizing materials, and considering diverse methodologies, discussing their potentials and limitations.  No prerequisites are required. Please email Ross Exo Adams (radams@bard.edu) for inquiries.

 

Course:

ARCH 405  Senior Project Colloquium

Professor:

Ross Adams

CRN:

91026

Schedule:

 Wed    5:40 PM - 7:00 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

Class cap:

8

Credits:

0

                The Senior Project Colloquium provides a collective space to discuss senior project-related work in progress. It is a required component for students majoring in Architecture and will take place on a bi-weekly basis. Sessions may include student presentations and critiques of work in progress, screenings, collective discussions on architectural precedents, events and contemporary discourse.

 

 

Cross-listed courses:

 

Course:

ARTH 125  Modern Architecture

Professor:

Olga Touloumi  

CRN:

90244

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    3:50 PM - 5:10 PM Olin 102

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art

Class cap:

20

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies

 

Course:

CLAS 238  Houses of the Gods: Ancient Greek Sacred Space

Professor:

Ranjani Atur  

CRN:

90477

Schedule:

Tue  Thurs    12:10 PM - 1:30 PM Hegeman 204

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art

Class cap:

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Architecture, Art History and Visual Culture, Religion

 

Course:

LIT 2213  Building Stories

Professor:

Peter L'Official  

CRN:

90270

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

LA Literary Analysis in English

Class cap

22

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities

 

Course:

SOC 138  Introduction to Urban Sociology

Professor:

Peter Klein  

CRN:

90003

Schedule:

 Tue  Thurs    2:00 PM - 3:20 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis

D+J Difference and Justice

Class cap

18

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  American Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies

 

Course:

THTR 224  Design Studio

Professor:

David Szlasa  

CRN:

90363

Schedule:

Mon       10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher Performing Arts Center CONFERENCE

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap:

12

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Architecture

 

Course:

WRIT 354  Plundering the Americas: On Violence Against Land and Bodies

Professor:

Valeria Luiselli  

CRN:

90293

Schedule:

Mon       2:00 PM - 4:20 PM Olin 304

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts

Class cap

14

Credits:

4

Cross-listed:  Architecture; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights