ARPL 648 Advanced Architectural Analysis
In this seminar and workshop students engage with advanced analytic and synthetic concepts, methods and tools to understand and translate the designed environment. Media will include but will not be limited to digital modeling and animation, collage, painting, charcoal and color pencil. The overall intentions of this course is to expand the means and methods of analytical and synthetic thinking, develop a discourse on critical observation and produce advanced and varied analytical studies of the designed environment. Topics to be discussed will include the architect as bricoleur and the role of bricolage in terms of collage, Baudelaire's concept of the flâneur and the city, Vidler's concept of the uncanny, mapping, Walter Benjamin's dialectics of seeing and Heidegger's concepts of dwelling, place & environment.