Course: |
ARCH 111 Architecture as Media |
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Professor: |
Ivonne Santoyo Orozco |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Ross
Adams |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Montserrat
Bonvehi-Rosich |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Ivan
Lopez Munuera |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Ross
Adams |
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CRN: |
91026 |
Schedule: |
Wed 5:40 PM - 7:00
PM Garcia-Renart House |
Distributional Area: |
Class cap: |
8 |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Olga Touloumi |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Ranjani Atur |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Peter L'Official |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Peter Klein |
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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 |
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Professor: |
David Szlasa |
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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 |
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Professor: |
Valeria Luiselli |
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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