Course:

ARCH 111  Spatial Subjects: Architecture as Media

Professor:

Michael Robinson Cohen

CRN:

15866

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities

This studio-based course introduces students to architectural tools of communication while presenting architecture as a field that is expansive—a field that engages not only with technical knowledge, but also with the making of public imaginaries, personal environments, cultural spatial aesthetics, and even the contested ground of the political, economic and social. The course is simultaneously an introduction to the techniques of representation that define the discipline of architecture and an opportunity to explore and question how architecture mediates the world. Students will learn and practice techniques of contemporary digital drafting, diagramming, mapping, 3D modeling and compositional image-making. While the focus will be on an array of forms of architectural drawing, these techniques will be carefully positioned against a survey of paradigmatic moments and themes in the history of architecture that will help situate the practice today. Throughout the term, our design work will be supplemented by readings and periodic research work, and we will situate this against regular lectures that will introduce you to the broader culture of architecture. The course will provide a foundation of concepts and skills necessary to make architecture legible and to convey a spatial argument through design. NO PREREQUISITES REQUIRED. For inquiries, contact Ross Adams, radams@bard.edu

 

Course:

ARCH 130  Perspectival speculations: Open Practices Workshop I

Professor:

Betsy Clifton  

CRN:

15871

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     3:30 PM - 6:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

        Fri   1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 2

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Studio Art

This one-month workshop will run from February 2nd to March 2nd and introduces drawing techniques to investigate the inherited conditions of our constructed environment and to speculate on its future. Throughout the workshop, students will create a full-scale perspectival drawing to reveal aspects of our environment that have come together not by intention, but by chance. With this, we will construct an alternative architectural language which measures, recomposes, and acknowledges our built environment as an accumulation of codes, patents, systems and legal frameworks, in service of proposing new opportunities. Each student will isolate an intersection of built space around campus (mechanical, structural, material, open to closed, corner, hallway, gap, etc.) and productively work to collapse its boundaries. Through readings (both from architecture and our own interpretations) and technical documents such as building codes and patents, students will name their constructed context, and draw over and around the existing site as a means to transform it. This class invites students from all backgrounds to engage with the fundamentals of architectural language. The course will conduct a series of drawing workshops and short exercises testing physical and conceptual space through digital 2D/3D modelling, drafting and image collaging. The final installation of the course will result in full scale perspective drawings and collages installed on the sites around campus. NO PREREQUISITES REQUIRED. For inquiries, contact Ivonne Santoyo Orozco, isantoyoorozco@bard.edu

 

Course:

ARCH 221  Institutions for Planetary Fictions

Professor:

Ross Adams  

CRN:

15870

Schedule/Location:

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

Thurs    10:10 AM - 12:10 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities

What can we learn when we approach architecture as a ‘planetary’ practice? Aside from opening up new scales of design or shifting our focus to ecological concerns, how does this perspective fundamentally alter what it means to practice architecture? This design studio-seminar is an effort to introduce architecture as a worldmaking practice by acknowledging its inherently fictional capacity to imagine ways of being—modes of existence that depart from our present world. Unsettling notions that have underpinned architectural thought for centuries—private property, territory, racial capitalism, terra nullius—the aim of this studio-seminar is to approach architecture from alternate sites of inquiry that reveal it to be, more than anything else, a technology that mediates our relation to the world. Our work will be to design institutions for planetary fictions, architectural interventions that seek to instigate public imaginaries around sites of common existence—air, water, soil, forest, clouds—as a basis to exploit the narrative and fictional capacity of architecture at a moment of climatic and cultural transformation. We will develop our planetary fictions through a network of readings, films, discussions, collective design work, image making and invited guest lectures. Prerequisite for this course is ARCH 111 or permission from the professor. Please note studio work involves weekly assignments and, when possible, extracurricular events, such as field trips and studio-related talks. Computers with required software will be provided by the College.

 

Course:

ARCH 240  Architectural Entanglements with Labor

Professor:

Ivonne Santoyo Orozco  

CRN:

15869

Schedule/Location:

 Tue   Fri   1:30 PM - 2:50 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

Crosslists: Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

Architecture is both the product of labor and the organizer of its relations, yet often these issues remain overshadowed by aesthetic considerations and the broader discourse of design. In shifting the question of labor in architecture to the foreground, this course invites students to reflect on the spatio-political role architecture has played in mediating bodies, work and capital. To do this, we will analyze contemporary transformations to paradigmatic sites of work (offices, factories, tech campuses), as well as the many spaces that have been produced to feed architectural production and its endless cycles of extraction (camps, slums, mines), or the architecture that reproduces forms of maintenance (houses, squares, resorts). We will analyze a diverse set of contemporary and historical architectural precedents against a heterogenous landscape of voices from Maurizio Lazzarato, Silvia Federici, Mierle Laderman Ukeless, David Harvey, Peggy Deamer, Mabel O. Wilson, among others. The course will unfold in a combination of lectures and seminars. There are no exams but students are expected to complete weekly assignments, a midterm and a final project. This is an OSUN class and is open to Bard students as well as students from multiple OSUN partner institutions.

 

Course:

ARCH 322  Lexicon of Everyday Futures

Professor:

Betsy Clifton

CRN:

15868

Schedule/Location:

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

        Fri   10:10 AM - 12:10 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslists: Experimental Humanities; Studio Art

Where is the line between a presentation of proposed use (built space) and a presentation of potential use (exhibited space)? This design studio-seminar collapses the distinction between curating and creating by designing an exhibition, as well as the objects to be exhibited. By constructing our own vocabulary of contexts, codes, systems, and details of architecture, we will examine components of built space at multiple scales through a series of evolving models. We will reframe the institutional space of the gallery as a site of intellectual and creative production itself, and collapse the boundary between specified collections and our everyday context.  Through a series of experimental workshops our focus will be on ubiquitous elements of space which inhabit most projects, but whose agency is usually anonymous (fire codes, mechanical systems, utilities, for example). Over the semester, we will iterate scaled physical models and interchange their roles between gallery and architectural mock up, speculative object and utilitarian element. The semester will culminate in a built exhibition which intends to open up architecture as a future practice that can more readily accept itself as a collective/collected environment. Prerequisites ARCH 111 or permission from the program. Email radams@bard.edu

 

Course:

ARCH 330  Urban Creatures—Open Practices Workshop II

Professor:

Carlos Bedoya Ikeda

CRN:

15934

Schedule/Location:

  Mon  Thurs   1:30 PM - 4:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 2

 

Class cap: 12

In this one-month long, intensive design studio running from February 7th to March 7th, students will design ‘urban creatures’—architectural artifacts that will interact in and with relevant urban conditions through their symbolism, location and monumentality. As opposed to an architecture that predetermines its uses, our proposals are meant to take on a life of their own in their context. Designing urban creatures will push us to operate beyond habit and work outside of preconceived architectural responses, experimenting instead with an architecture that dialogues with contemporary urban conditions more directly. We will begin by analyzing historical references to learn and understand the different positions and creative responses that other designers have had to concrete social, political and cultural conditions. We will then design our creatures through an iterative process working primarily through detailed hand drawings, as well as other techniques like 3D modeling and physical model making. Prerequisites: ARCH 111 and ARCH 130, or permission from the program. Email isantoyoorozco@bard.edu with inquiries.

 

Course:

ARCH 405  Senior Project Colloquium

Professor:

Ivonne Santoyo Orozco  

CRN:

15867

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Garcia-Renart House

Distributional Area:

 

Credits: 0

 

Class cap: 8

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:

ART 126 ED Mapping: You Are Here

Professor:

Ellen Driscoll  

CRN:

15887

Schedule/Location:

  Wed     10:10 AM - 1:10 PM Fisher Studio Arts 141/149

Distributional Area:

PA Practicing Arts  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 12

Crosslists: Architecture; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

ARTH 126  Situating Architecture

Professor:

Olga Touloumi  

CRN:

15505

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   10:10 AM - 11:30 AM Olin 102

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 25

Crosslists: Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies

 

Course:

ARTH 234  Of Utopias

Professor:

Olga Touloumi  

CRN:

15506

Schedule/Location:

  Wed  Fri   3:30 PM - 4:50 PM Olin 204

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities

 

Course:

ANTH 296  The Anthropology of Home

Professor:

Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins  

CRN:

15658

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    10:10 AM – 11:30 AM OSUN Course

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 22

Crosslists: Architecture

 

Course:

HIST 136  Surveying Displacement and Migration in the United States

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth  

CRN:

15601

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    6:40 PM - 8:00 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: American Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Human Rights

 

Course:

HIST 298  Making Silicon Valley Histories

Professor:

Jeannette Estruth  

CRN:

15662

Schedule/Location:

 Tue  Thurs    5:10 PM - 6:30 PM Olin 201

Distributional Area:

HA Historical Analysis  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap 22

Crosslists: American Studies; Architecture; Environmental & Urban Studies; Experimental Humanities; Human Rights

 

Course:

HR 372  Chronic: Disability, Sickness, and Care

Professor:

Evan Calder Williams

CRN:

16058

Schedule/Location:

Mon       3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Center for Curatorial Studies

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Architecture

 

Course:

HR 376  Housing Justice

Professor:

Kwame Holmes  

CRN:

15612

Schedule/Location:

Mon       12:30 PM – 2:50 PM Olin 309

Distributional Area:

SA Social Analysis D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: American Studies; Architecture

 

Course:

HR 379  Exhibiting (Im)mobility: Art, Museums, Migration

Professor:

Dina Ramadan  

CRN:

15669

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      3:10 PM – 5:30 PM Olin 301

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art  

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 15

Crosslists: Architecture; Art History; Middle Eastern Studies

 

Course:

HR 389  Disability Art & Politics: Crip Time & Life at Law’s Limits

Professor:

Constantina Zavitsanos  

CRN:

15930

Schedule/Location:

 Tue      2:00 PM – 4:20 PM Center for Curatorial Studies SEM

Distributional Area:

AA Analysis of Art D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 4

 

Class cap: 18

Crosslists: Architecture

 

Course:

SOC/EUS 361  Hudson Valley Cities and Environmental (In)Justice

Professor:

Peter Klein  

CRN:

15961

Schedule/Location:

   Every Other Fri     10:10 AM – 12:30 PM Olin 202

Distributional Area:

SA  Social Analysis   D+J Difference and Justice

Credits: 2

 

Class cap 15

Crosslists: Architecture; American Studies