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ARC 338/638 American Architecture, 1860 - World War I

Crosslisted with: HOA 375


American architectural history and theory from the Civil War through various revival modes to
development of new commercial and residential forms before World War II. Additional work
required of graduate students.
PREREQ: ARC 134

ARC 431/731 Early Modern Architecture


Crosslisted with: HOA 479
Early modern architecture from the 1890s through the 1930s. Additional work required of
graduate students.
PREREQ: ARC 134

ARC 500-8 1960s Utopias


Honors only
Class is already full

ARC 564 Drawing


Exercises in line and value used to investigate issues involving observing and representing form
and space. Additional work required of graduate students.
PREREQ: ARC 182, ARC/NAS 108

ARC 563 Introduction to Computer Applications in Architecture


Overview of the computer and its applications to architecture. Direct involvement with the
computer to resolve problems in structures, design, environmental systems, specifications, cost
estimation, etc. Additional work required of graduate students.

ARC 572 Advanced Computer Applications to Architecture


Individual and/or group efforts at investigating and developing new computer programming
requirements for architectural applications.

ARC 573 Uptopia and Transformation in Early American Town Planning


Comparative urban analysis considering reciprocal influences of historical antecedent and
utopian visions of the city in helping determine early American town and building form.
Concentration on urban and architectural development of Boston, Charleston, Savannah.
PREREQ: ARC 134

ARC 575 Urban Housing - Building, Block, Street


Focus on housing as an integral part of urban structure, both formal and sociopolitical.
Relationships of residential unit to building, block, and city, as they represent the individual and
community, are examined.
ARC 500: Real Estate Design & Development
Syracuse University; Fall 2010
Course Credits: 3

AJ Pires Jared Della Valle
ajpires@alloyllc.com jdellavalle@alloyllc.com

TA (TBD)
TBD

Course Description
This class will identify the basic aspects of real estate design and development and explore some of the key relationships of the many and 
layered components. Through lectures, case studies and discussion, the class will strive to teach the critical analysis and constructive thinking 
that is the key to contributing positively to the built environment. We will look at projects ranging in size from a single family home to a several 
hundred thousand square foot building in markets primarily around New York City. Through these case studies students will be asked to 
consider the often divergent value sets of the many stakeholders at hand in the creation of valuable real estate. Topics will include:

                     • Market Analysis        • Acquisition                    • Pre Development Planning      • Scheduling & Budgeting
                     • Zoning & Design       • Marketing & Leasing  •  Cash Flow Projecting                • Pro Forma Development 
                     • Financing                   • Construction                • Valuation                                     • Property Stabilization            

Class Format
This class will be taught through our understanding of and working through case studies. Studio work from ARC 609: Developed Design will be 
shared with the class to inform our analysis. (If possible, students are strongly encouraged to enroll in ARC 609: Developed Design.) 
Assignments from each case will be due weekly and students will be required to present and discuss their assignments regularly.  Guests from 
around the industry will attend our class throughout the semester including at the conclusion of each case study to provide guest lectures as 
well offer outside criticism and review of our work. On November 6 and 7 class will take place in New York. An overnight stay is required. Class 
participation is the key to a rewarding experience in this class. Students will be expected to be present at and participate actively in class.

Criteria for Evaluation
No exams, tests or papers are required outside of the weekly case study assignments and in‐class presentations. Work and effort evident in 
each assignment and class participation will be the primary criteria from which we will assess student's performance in this class.

Assignments
Case assignment will be given at the end of each class and are due by the end of the day of the following Wednesday. (Assignments received 
after 6:00am Thursday will not be accepted.) Email your assignment in PDF format to Jared and AJ. Format your PDF so that it prints cleanly on 
8.5" x 11" paper.

Required Textbooks
Real Estate Finance & Investments, Second Edition; Peter Linneman; Linneman Associates; 2004
The Real Estate Dictionary, Seventh Edition; John Talamo JD; Financial Publishing Company; 2001

Weekly Handouts
In addition to assignments and reading, weekly handouts will be provided periodically. The weekly handouts are intended to support the 
lectures and assignments. While this material will not be 'tested', an appreciation of the content will help you with each week's assignment.

Resources & Prerequisites
Students will primarily be working in Excel, Powerpoint and visualization tools of their choosing (ACAD, Illustrator, SketchUp, Etc.) There will be 
several workshops over the course of the semester to orient students unfamiliar with these tools. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the 
class, students will not be expected to have an advanced knowledge of each of these programs, however these tools will be required 
throughout the term and at the conclusion of the semester all students should be working at a comparable level. Stated simply, finance 
students will be required to present their designs using one of the many software tools available and architecture students will be required to 
present financial analysis using Excel.
// Ecology of Cities // Background // In early 2008, we became an urban species, with more
than half of our world population living in cities. Our built environments
SOA : Arc 500 Professional Elective are extreme energy intensive systems, completely out of balance with the
Instructor : Vasilena Vassilev natural environment. How can one begin to understand the complexi-
email: vvassile@syr.edu ties of our urban, political and social systems and the ways in which they
impact our planet? How can architects participate in the impending and
Fall 2010 necessary paradigm shift towards a more viable urban ecosystem?
MW 3:45 - 5:05
101 Slocum Hall // Scope // This course seeks to examine the phenomena of anthropo-
genic effects of various scales and complexity. Lectures will cover the
scientific basis for the study of industrial ecology and systems theory, an
analysis of human development and current urbanization, social and
economic trends and their environmental repercussions, the global foot-
print, and the movement towards a holistic systems thinking in city plan-
ning and development. Weekly reading contribution, the examination
of case studies and methods of critical and quantitative analysis will be
used to support lectures and enrich the learning process.

// Work // Grading will be based on a final exam, attendance, participa-


tion in weekly group-led class discussions, and a semester-long project
on a self-chosen research topic. The project will be phased throughout
the semester with a mid-term research presentation. Students are en-
couraged to develop their own investigative agenda in order to gain an
understanding of the intangible network of our societies, in an effort to
begin a discourse on effective urban strategies for minimizing the nega-
tive effects on our natural environment.

Urban Density and Energy Usage:


Visualization of the Earth at Night
Image Credit: NASA
Fall 2010 Professional Elective Seminar 
ARC500.3 / 19127 

MARCEL BREUER 
Interpretation and Exhibition 
                           

Visiting Professor Barry Bergdoll and Prof. Jonathan Massey 
Wednesdays 10:35‐1:25 
 
 
What was modern architecture? How did it interact with the social transformations of 
the 20th century? With institutions such as the Bauhaus, MoMA, the United Nations, and 
the Catholic church? How do architects use drawings and other media? What can an 
archive reveal about the design process? How do museum curators interpret architecture 
though exhibition? 
 
Through a sustained engagement with the archive of Marcel Breuer (1902‐81), this new 
seminar will explore these questions. Co‐taught by Prof. Jonathan Massey and Barry 
Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of 
Modern Art, the course will provide graduate students and advanced undergraduates 
with the opportunity to investigate modern architecture by working with Breuer’s 
original drawings and papers, which are housed in the special collections of Bird Library.  
 
Through lectures, workshops, and a field trip to MoMA, Bergdoll and Massey will 
introduce students to key topics and themes in Breuer’s life and work, including the 
architectural legacy of the Bauhaus; regionalism and internationalism in postwar 
modernism; and the relation among design practices at scales ranging from furniture to 
urban planning. They will also focus on the analytical and interpretive issues entailed in 
working with archival materials, analyzing drawings and buildings, and exhibiting 
architecture in the museum. Working individually and in teams, students will conduct 
discussions, make presentations, write papers, and develop curatorial proposals for an 
exhibition of Breuer’s work.  
 
 
Enrolment:   15 students 
Prerequisites:   ARC242 or ARC639 or instructor permission 
Contact:   Prof. Massey at jmassey@syr.edu 
ARC 500/301 This course presents the major
ANCIENT GREEK AND architectural monuments of ancient
Greece and Rome from the early Iron
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE Age (c. 900 BC) to the late Roman
period (c. 350 AD). It investigates the
Professor Gloria Hunt forms, design principles, materials, and
Fall 2010 building techniques developed by
ancient Greek and Roman societies to
M/W 2:15-3:35 provide physical settings for public and
private life. Beginning with the first
impulses toward monumentality in early
Greek sanctuaries and cemeteries, we
will follow the major building types and
their development over time, paying
close attention to the development of
architectural canon and the
circumstances which promoted
flexibility and innovation.

Ancient architecture enhanced a wide


array of cultural experiences in ancient
Greece and Rome, from framing and
accentuating religious activities to
communicating political and economic
goals to expressing social ideals. In this
class students will become familiar with
the methods and language by which
architectural historians analyze and
interpret ancient buildings in our attempt
to come to new understandings of
ancient Greek and Roman culture.

The Classical tradition has remained at


the core of Western architecture for over
two thousand years. With an
understanding of original context in the
ancient world, the student will gain an
awareness of both traditional and
innovative uses of ancient architectural
forms in the post-classical world and the
meanings derived from them.

Prerequisite: ARC 133 or permission of


instructor
School of Architecture Instructor: Trevor Lee
Syracuse University Fall 2010

ARC 500 LANDSCAPE DYNAMICS


Monday / Wednesday 12:45 - 2:05

RM 401 Slocum
Prerequisite: None

Enrollment 25 Students
Credits 3
Ref. # 19049

The transformative power of landscape is playing a key role in the evolution and development of
the contemporary public realm. An increased interest in sustainability and current investments in
large scale infrastructure have made this a fortuitous time for designers to test new strategies and
technologies at multiple scales within the discipline and profession of Landscape Architecture.
Strategies such as the gradual unfolding of urbanistic, hydrological and ecological events, as well as
the ability to adapt to successional changes while designing for flexibility, growth and resiliency for
future conditions hold enormous potential for the field..

The complex ecological, infrastructural and biological relationships that characterize landscape are
contingent on the representational methods and techniques that illuminate them. Sections, plans
and perspectives have the normative and adequate mode of projection but as landscape develops in
complexity so do the techniques necessary to represent their processes. The flow diagrams of Field
Operations developed to explain detailed habitat, people and vegetation migrations are an example
of the innovative ways in which designers have chosen to illustrate these hierarchies.

Landscape Dynamics will investigate urban-scaled contemporary Landscape Architectural projects


both built and unbuilt. We will research individual design practices and analyze the processes,
methodologies and techniques of specific design interventions and the ways in which representation
is integral in the ability to discern the flexibility, growth and resiliency of design.

Students are expected complete all assigned readings and come to class prepared to either present
or discuss the weekly presentations or topics. Grading will be based on attendance, class discussions
and completion of assignments.

Office hours are from 9:00 – 12:00 Thursday

Office: UPSTATE: The Warehouse


350 West Fayette Street Suite 130

Chris Reed, STOSS, Presentation on Landscape Fall 2010 Syracuse University


Almy, Dean. On Landscape Urbanism. Austin, TX : Center for American Architecture and Design, University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture, 2007. Print.
ARC500/05
ICON AND IMAGE
A History of Architectural Drawing
Professor Jean-François Bédard

A tension has always existed between


works of architecture and their repre-
sentation. Are architectural drawings
mere prolegomena to building or rather
the very essence of architecture, one
lost in the vicissitudes of the building
process? This debate became particu-
larly acute during the Renaissance when
architects began to instrumentalize
drawings for their own professional and
social advancement. The emergence
of the architect-painter at the end of
the eighteenth century radicalized this
tendency. From Boullée to Eisenman, a
lineage of “paper architects” petitioned
for the autonomy of architectural repre-
sentation.

This class will chart representation in


architectural practice by addressing
Semester: Fall 2010 discussions in treatises, in the work of
Credit hours: 3 individual architects, and their status as
Course no: 19163 collectible items. Throughout the class,
Prequisites: none students will be presented with a wide
Meeting times: M/W, 3:45 pm to 5:05 pm range of examples from different histori-
Classroom: 307 Slocum
Enrollment: 15 students
cal periods. Major texts in the theory of
representation, visuality, and the sociol-
Office: 306B Slocum ogy of images will also be introduced.
Office hours: M/W, 5:15 pm to 6:00 pm
Office telephone: x8372
Email: jbedard@syr.edu
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Mogliano, near Mestre, 1720 — Rome,1778), architect and draftsman. Partial elevation of a chimneypiece with confronted elephant heads
Syracuse University School of Architecture / 2010 Fall / ARC500-M007 / Wd 12:45p-3:35p / SLOC326
Asst. Prof. Robert A. Svetz / rsvetz@syr.edu / Slcm326E

ARC500 | S/erialurreal (Re)Presentation

SEMINAR ABSTRACT
Issued: 27 August 2010

Fall 2010 | ARC500-M007 | Slocum 325 | W 12:45-3:35p | 3.0 units

S/ERIALURREAL (RE)PRESENTATION
M I N ( D ) I N G T H E G A P

“Does not the paradox of repetition lie in the fact that one can speak of
repetition only by virtue of the change or difference it introduces into the
mind that contemplates it?”
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
"...the proper Deleuzian paradox is that something truly New can only
emerge through repetition. What repetition repeats is not the way the
past effectively was but the virtuality inherent to the past and betrayed by
its past actualization. ”
Slavoj Zizek, Organs Without Bodies - On Deleuze and Consequences

What relationships of repetition, difference and the blunt shock of


surreal doubling obtain in “original” design work? For that matter,
what constitutes design work and how does a works’ own formal
re-presentation-to-self actually conceptualize its possible range of content?
Through interwoven sets of Essays / Discussions / Films / Videos /
Recordings / Drawings / Design Exercises, the seminar will look at practices
of s/erial/urreal repetition and effects in music, painting, sculpture, film,
writing, graphics and architecture among LeWitt, Monet, Rodin, Nevelson,
Schoenberg, Krauss, Foucault, Judd, bach, Muybridge, Reich, Wright, Corb,
Mies, Kahn, Koolhaas, Gondry, Altman and others.
Presenting the design student with systematically Proactive/ Productive
creative techniques in which strategic operations of Abstraction,
Differentiation and Repetition are tried and examined in relationship to
Theoretical Texts and Case Study works, the seminar will argue the case of
Serial (Re)Presentation and its Surreal Effects as a proactively critical and
retrospectively original design modality; one particularly apropos for
architectural studies in the “age of digital reproduction.”
Tethered to critical concepts of repetition and virtuality from Krauss, Freud,
Deleuze and Zizek, the key argument of the course is that by re-presenting
form to content relationships through differentiated repetition – which is to
say especially NOT in spite of repetition – serial(ist) techniques afford a
greater rather than lesser open-endedness as a working design Paradigm.
This design & representation theory based Professional Elective.

Jasper Johns, Three Flags (1958); Louis Kahn, Yale Center for British Art (1973-77); "Me: Girl Takes Picture of herself every day for
three years." by Ahree Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55YYaJIrmzo); Rem Koolhaas with Zoe Zenghelis, The City of the
Captive Globe (1973); Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece I (1969)
Syracuse University School of Architecture / 2010 Fall / ARC500-M007 / Asst Prof Svetz

S/ERIALURREAL (RE)PRESENTATION - COURSE ABSTRACT (cont’d)

Seminar work
will focus on the Simultaneous nature of Analysis and Synthesis in design work, and the potential that a
serialized "representation-to-self" holds out for both working Productivity and richer relationships of
Formal Operation to Formal Content. Work will include:
1 Reading Discussions with Image Submittals & Analyses
2 Design Drawings & Installations (more emphasized than in previous seminars)
3 Writing Responses (less emphasized than in previous seminars)
4 Final Presentation / Folio

Partial Reading List (course reader or handouts)


RosilandKrauss, “Lewitt in Progress” (1977) and "The Originality of the Avant-Garde" (1981), in The
Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1997).
Pamela M. Lee, “Phase Piece,” in Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes, Nicholas Baume, ed. (Hartford,
CT: The Wadsworth Atheneum of Art, 2001).
Elizabeth Diller, "Autobiographical Notes," in The Activist Drawing, Retracing Situationist Architecture's
from Constant's New Babylon to Beyond (NY Drawing Center, 2001).
Mark J. Sedler, M.D., “Freud’s Concept of Working Through,” in The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, V52:No1
(New York: The Psychoanalytic Quarterly, Inc., 1983).
Richard Boothby, “The Freudian Dialectic,” in Freud as Philosopher: Metapsychology After Lacan (New
York: Routledge, 2001).
Robert Fink, “The Media Sublime: Minimalism, Advertising, and Television,” in Repeating Ourselves,
American Minimal Music as Cultural Practice (Berkeley, CA: Univ of California Press, 2005).
David J. Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, and Paul Lewis, “Invernizzi’s exquisite corpse: The Villa Girasole: an
architecture of surrationalism,” in Surrealism and Architecture, Thomas Mical, ed. (New York:
Routledge, 2005).
Michel Foucault, “Preface” and "Las Meninas," in The Order of Things (Vintage Books, 1994).
Markus Bandur, excerpts from Aesthetics of Total Serialism (Birkhauser, 2001).
Felicity Scott, "Encounters with the Face of America," in Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging
Metaphors, Antoine Picon and Alessandra Ponte, eds. (Princeton Architectural Press, 2003).
Dennis Alan Mann, “Figure and Shadow: The Necessity of Type,” in Garth Rockcastle, ed., Type and the
(Im)Possibilities of Convention (Univ of Minnesota College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture,
MN: Midgard Monograph, 1991).
Robin Evans, "Figures, Doors and Passages" in Translations from Drawing to Building and Other Essays
(MIT Press, 1997).
Michael Benedikt, "7 Short Essays" in Deconstructing the Kimbell (Sites Books, 1991).
Michel Foucault, This Is Not A Pipe (Univ. of California Press, 1983).
Gilles Deleuze, "Nietzsche," in Pure Immanence: Essays on Life, trans. Anne Boyman (New York: Zone
Books, 2001).
Slavoj Zizek, Organs Without Bodies: On Deleuze and Consequences (New York: Routledge, 2004).

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Fall 2010 ARC500

My Stomach Bug is in the Wrong Place :Spaces of Conflict and Efforts of Deflection

Spring 2010 Professional Elective – 3 credit


Tuesdays & Thursdays 11:00 AM – 12:20 PM
Slocum Hall 307
Enrollment is limited to 14

Instructor: Yutaka Sho


Email: ysho@syr.edu

Course Description
The course will investigate spaces of contention and appropriation and the desires and devices of control, as
well as deflection as a counter-control measure. We will investigate the macro-scale of national and
international influences and the micro-scale interventions in spaces that embody users’ and designers’
aspirations. The focus is on spaces born of the relationships between developing countries, especially in Africa,
and the North.

Included in our research will be: forms of conflicted spaces, such as planned villages in Rwanda; informal
settlements in Turkey; and courtyards in Ghana. We will consider the policies and concepts that influenced their
morphologies: competing perceptions of Modernism; the “science” of economy; and uneven globalization.
Designers are one of the active players in these conflicted zones, along with the policy makers, development
economists, anthropologists and housewives. In the past, the designers’ remedy of choice against conflicted
spaces was masterplanning, because the questions we asked were: How can we control the conflict? How can
we contain the discontented? How can we make them go away? Instead, in this course we seek spaces that
cheat the masterplanner, redirect the users around the conflict, and allow them to perform their agencies in
often small, incremental but perhaps in more effective ways. The method deflects instead of controls conflicts.

Among the variety of spaces, space makers and their tools, our spotlight is on informal settlements and
villagisation. The former is a housing type often categorized as a slum of squatters in urban peripheries. The
latter is the mass relocation of inhabitants to planned housing complexes for logistical as well as idealistic
purposes. The former is exploding in size worldwide, and the latter has been and will be used to eliminate slums.
We look into tribulations of, hopes for, and the deflection methods in both spaces.

In order to situate informal settlements and planned villages in time and space, the course uses case studies to
survey the history of global exchange and its impacts on cities and hinterlands, and the policies that have
affected urban environments such as colonialism, World Bank-dominant development and grassroots initiatives.
In the final research paper students will analyze conflicted and/or deflected spaces, and speculate ways in which
designers may align with/counter against/ propose alternatives to past and current development trends.

The meaning of the course title shall be revealed in the first class.
School of Architecture Prof. Abbey
Syracuse University Fall 2010

ARC 551 Le Corbusier 1887-1965

Wednesday 3:45 – 6:35


Room 325 Slocum

Prerequisite: None

Maximum enrollment 25 students

An intense familiarity with the work of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, (Charles,
Edouard Jeanneret) was a given in some schools of architecture until quite recently. As the most
th
formally provocative and intellectually complex architect of the 20 century, the number of
publications produced by him, his critics and biographers, fill several shelves. Contemporary
practice from the work of Meier and Graves to that of Koolhaas remains indebted to a profound
understanding of his work. The task for contemporary students is how to sort through the
enormous amount of available documentation and to frame an understanding of it for today’s
discourse and practice
This lecture course will examine his work from several vantage points; biographical data
and career development, specific themes of urban theory and social progress, his artistic
production as a painter, and his formal architectural strategies. The course will consist of a lecture
each week on Wednesday followed by a class discussion session with assigned readings each
week .
Students should be prepared to discuss issues presented in the weekly lectures and to
present additional information to the class based on the assigned readings.
Attendance is mandatory. From time to time students will be required to memorize plans,
diagram strategies and make analytical studies of selected projects. A final paper is required of
no less than 10 pages on a topic to be selected in consultation with me. Grades will be based on
class attendance, class participation and assigned work.

Office hours are from 9:00 -12:00 Thursday, Room 308C Slocum Hall
My E-mail address is bjabbey@syr.edu
ARC 566
Fall 2010
Prof. Lustbader
W 10:30-1:25

Introduction to Preservation: Contemporary Issues Related to Design

This class will present contemporary issues in historic preservation with an


emphasis on its relationship to design. Case studies and discussions will
illustrate the role of preservation as a tool for economic and cultural
development, community revitalization, heritage tourism, and sustainability.
Students will explore and analyze design challenges associated with the
preservation of historic resources, districts, and landscapes.

Prerequisite: ARC 134


ARC 572
Advanced Computer Applications in Architecture
Prof. Brian Lonsway TuTh 9:30AM - 10:50AM

coding:drawing
This course will introduce students to the
fundamentals of computer graphics programming using
the Processing language. Directed toward a rethinking
of what it means to draw with, rather than on
computers, the course will cover a range of parametic
drawing techniques, from simple linear scripting
to object-based 3D graphics. No prior experience
in programming is necessary, as Processing is very
accessible to the beginner. However, a comfort
with computers and 2D & 3D computer graphics
applications is a must.
ARC 573 Syracuse University School of Architecture Fall 2010

utopian theory and urban transformation in


early american town planning
T Th 9:30 - 10:50 a.m. 3 credit hours
Pre-requisites: ARC 133,134,141 and 242
Professor Anne Munly 305 Slocum Hall amunly@syr.edu

Savannah, Georgia

Charleston, South Carolina

Boston, Massachusetts

Scope: This reading-intensive seminar considers historical antecedents and utopian visions underlying early American town and building form.
Introductory material investigates utopia as a social-cultural mode and is followed by comparative case studies of Boston, Charleston and
Savannah, exploring changing urban ideals manifested in their urban contexts.

Objectives:
The course will compare the early pattern of development in selected American cities to consider the:
• philosophical and ethical confrontation with ‘new world’ development and concepts of the ‘savage’

• influence of historic precedent and utopian vision on the form of US eastern seaboard cities, along with consequent deformations

• adaptation to regional differences in climate and materials

• interdependence of urban settlement, the supporting landscape and the sea

• pre-industrial development of an American vision of the city and the growth in importance of landscape within concepts of the ‘urban’

Course Requirements:

Work: • Attendance and participation in weekly discussion of required readings is mandatory


• Required readings approximately 50 pages per week
• Individual reading presentation investigating critical texts
• Urban analysis and presentation of a team project
• 8 page individual paper

Evaluation: 15% class discussion/contribution


15% reading presentation
40% team project
30% individual paper
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

URBAN HOUSING SEMINAR: The Residential Block and Square

ARC 575 (19187) 3 Credit Hours Fall 2010


Tuesday & Thursday 9:30-10:50 AM

Professor Arthur McDonald (awmcdona@syr.edu)

COURSE
This seminar course will address the subject of urban housing, specifically the residential block and
residential square, from a historical and contemporary perspective. The lectures by the instructor within the
course will cover the settlements from the Greeks and Romans to exemplary housing projects of the
twentieth century associated with the Modern Movement in architecture to contemporary urban design
theories and associated housing projects.

OBJECTIVES

If the city is the most critical context for the work of the architect, it is, therefore, important for the architect
to understand the basic building block of the city, the dwelling unit and the variety of its collective form.
To gain knowledge of urban housing also requires the study of city planning and the related urban design
and architectural issues of theory and practice.

And for the student of architecture:


-to gain a better understanding of the historical context (physical, social and political) of urban housing in
the development of cities in Western civilization
-to gain a background of knowledge concerning the role dwelling quarters played in the history of city
planning
-to gain a better understanding of the architectural theories surrounding urban housing
-to gain an understanding of the planning principles applied to the urban housing of the residential block
and the residential square
-to develop an appreciation and interest in the need for responsible work yet to be done concerning urban
housing in the American city

FORMAT

The lectures by the instructor, class discussion, and student presentations of two research assignments will
constitute the class schedule during the semester. A two hour final examination consisting of optional
essays (take home questions) will be given during the University final exam week.

Prereq: ARC 108 or instructor consent


Enrollment of 30

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