STUDIOS
501. Design
Studio I. (A) Faculty. Corequisite(s) ARCH 521; 2 c.u.
An introduction
to architectural design exploring the complex relationship between representation
and production. Architecture as a visual and constructional phenomenon is
understood through geometry and its perceptual and expressive distortion.
A series of design exercises explores the geometries of representation and
production through the possibilities of intervention in a setting, measuring
and marking space and bringing materials into a state of construction.
502. Design
Studio II. (B) Faculty. Corequisite(s) ARCH 522; 2 c.u.
This studio
will explore urban architecture as an embodiment of cultural values. Siting,
enclosure of space and tectonic definition will be stressed, in order to challenge
students to project relevant and inventive architectural situations.
601. Design
Studio III. (A) Faculty. Corequisite(s) ARCH 621; 2 c.u.
The third semester
of the core sequence seeks to develop positive attitudes toward, and an understanding
of, architecture as the art of making buildings. The projects are selected
to emphasize that the making of buildings is not only an essential aspect
of architectural design, but is an integral component of the development or
formation of an architectural intent. Studios taught by a collaborative team
of design critics make explicit the relationship between man-made and natural
systems, materials and assembly, and architectural intent and form.
602. Design
Studio IV. (B) Faculty and Visiting Critics.; 2 c.u.
Each year several
studios are offered, from which students are able to select their choice.
A number of these studios are given by internationally known visiting critics.
Several studios will be of half-semester duration to increase the range of
studio experiences.
701. (LARP701,
UDES701) Design Studio V. (A) Faculty and Visiting Critics.; 2 c.u.
Elective studios
taught by design faculty and visiting critics
702. (UDES702)
Design Studio VI. (B) Faculty and Visiting Critics.; 2 c.u.
Each year six
or more studios are offered, from which students are able to select their
choice. A large number of these studios are given by internationally known
visiting critics. Several studios will be of half-semester duration to increase
the range of studio experiences.
704. Research
Studio. (B) Faculty. 2 c.u.
An in-depth
exploration of a topic or theme established by an individual faculty member
or group of faculty members.
706. Independent
Thesis. (B) Faculty. 2 c.u.
Begins with
"Thesis Preparation" and ends with a "Thesis Project". The former concludes
with a preliminary written document which includes a thesis statement. Program,
site case studies research, schedule of implementation and bibiography; the
latter culminated in a design project presented through a series of drawings
and/or modules utilizing various scales and modes of representation. The two
come together in the final "Thesis Book: which provides comprehensive evidence
of this process from its inception as a "hypothesis" put forward to the faculty,
to its investigation and interpretation through an "architectural project".
WORKSHOPS
521. Visual
Studies I. (A) Phillips & Faculty. Corequisite(s): ARCH 501;
.5 c.u.
An introduction
to the discipline of architectural drawing with the intent of developing the
abilities of analysis and projection through drawing. Five intensive workshops
will be held throughout the semester accompanied by drawing exercises and
individual critiques to develop abilities of analysis and projection through
drawing.
522. Visual
Studies II. (B) Phillips & Faculty. Corequisite(s): ARCH 502; .5 c.u.
A continuation
of the study of analysis and projection through drawing and computer visualization.
621. Visual
Studies III. (A) Veikos & Faculty. Corequisite(s): ARCH 601; .5 c.u.
A continuation
of developing the abilities of analytical thought and furthers exploration
of representation through digital media. With the advent of technology and
digital media, the possibilities for the investigation of representation and
its relation to the formulation of architecture in a culture characterized
by the dynamic proliferation of virtual information proposes new modalities
of operation, and furthers representation through the interface of the immaterial
(software) and the material (hardware) lending itself to new modes of thought.
REQUIRED
COURSES
511. (HSPV580)
History & Theory I. (A) De Long
The primary
emphasis is on exploring architectural principles and concepts which have
a timeless validity. The architectural elements and principles of spatial
arrangement explored in the course can be further tested by application in
the studio context.
512. History
& Theory II. (B) Leatherbarrow
The topics
of this course are a number of the ideas and places which persist in architecture
because they are always invented. Being oriented towards topics, this course
is neither theory in the strong sense nor about form in the general sense;
rather, its subjects are the places where the knowledge inherent in creative
making are located.
531. Construction
I. (A) Falck .5 c.u.
Course explores
basic principles and concepts of architectural technology and describes the
interrelated nature of structure, construction and environmental systems.
532. Construction
II. (B) Falck .5 c.u.
A continuation
of Construction I, focusing on light and heavy steel frame construction, concrete
construction, light and heavyweight cladding systems and systems building.
533.
Environmental Systems I. (A) Malkawi .5 c.u.
An introduction
to the influence of thermal and luminous phenomenon in the history and practice
of architecture. Issues of climate, health and environmental sustainability
are explored as they relate to architecture in its natural context. The classes
include lectures, site visits and field exploration.
534. Environmental
Systems II. (B) Martin .5 c.u.
This course
examines the environmental technologies of larger buildings, including heating,
ventilating, and air conditioning, lighting, and acoustics. Class meetings
are divided between slide lectures, work sessions, and site visits.
L/L 535.
Structures I. (A) Farley .5 c.u.
Theory applied
toward structural form. A review of one-dimensional structural elements; a
study of arches, slabs and plates, curved surface structures, lateral and
dynamic loads; survey of current and future structural technology. The course
comprises both lectures and a weekly laboratory in which various structural
elements, systems, materials and technical principles are explored.
L/L 536.
Structures II. (B) Farley .5 c.u.
A continuation
of the equilibrium analysis of structures covered in Structures I. The study
of static and hyperstatic systems and design of their elements. Flexural theory,
elastic and plastic. Design for combined stresses; prestressing. The study
of graphic statics and the design of trusses. The course comprises both lectures
and a weekly laboratory in which various structural elements, systems, materials
and technical principles are explored.
611. History
& Theory III. (A) Faculty.
This seminar
attempts to rethink topics which persist in architectural theory. While built
works and drawn projects will be the point of focus in the course, the materials
used include original treatises, essays and letters.
631. Technology
Case Studies. (A) McCleary
The intent
of this course is to study the active and actual integration of the various
building systems in high-profile projects. To understand the process of building,
one method is to analyze, through comparison, the process of design and construction
in buildings of similar typology. The goal is to bring forward the nature
of the relationship between architectural design and engineering systems,
and highlight the crucial communication skills required by both the architect
and the engineer. Projects compared include the G. Howe and W. Lescaze's PSFS
vs. N. Foster's Hong Kong Bank and R. Meier's High Museum of Art vs. R. Venturi's
Seattle Art Museum. Examples of emerging building technologies will also be
discussed.
671. Professional
Practice I. (A) Steinberg .5 c.u.
An Introduction
of students to the architectural profession. This course will explore the
organizational design of architectural practice through course work, field
trips, readings and an on-line discussion group.
672. Professional
Practice II. (B) Steinberg .5 c.u.
A continuation
of ARCH 671. Further study of the organizational structures of architectural
practices today. The course is designed as a stimulating workshop that allows
students and future practitioners the opportunity to develop the analytical
skills required to enter the practice world.
DESIGNATED
COURSES
632-001.
Glass, Technology and Spectacle in Contemporary Paris. Fierro.
This research seminar will examine the monumental transparent
buildings completed in the last two decades in Paris as part of an enormous
urban revitalization known popularly as the Grands Projects. Instigated by former president François Mitterand,
these glass buildings were endowed by ambitious symbolic aspirations: from
signifying the ascent of Mitterand’s Socialist party, to commemorating the
French Revolution, to representing the modernization of France to the world.
The course will examine ten of these transparent buildings in depth, contextualizing
contemporary issues within larger histories, critical concepts, and technological
aspects immediate to glass construction.
632-003.
Construction in
the Modern World. Fierro.
Through a thorough study of the modern house or villa as proposed by the acknowledged
principle architects of the modern movement - Wright, Loos, Riefveld, Mies,
Le Corbusier, and Aalto - various specific theses seminal to an understanding
of the intricate relationship between technology and architecture as evolved
through the modern movement will be examined. This study will explore the
development of these theses primarily through an analysis of the constructional
methods of specific villas, complemented by concurrent readings taken from
manifestos written by the architects and a number of external critical writings.
632-004.
Simulation & Design. Malkawi
During the past decade, advancements in computer technology
made it possible for building simulation to be part of the design process.
This course will provide students with 1) An understanding of building
design simulation methods 2) Hands-on experience in using computer simulation
models and 3) Exploration of the technologies, the underlying principles,
and the potential applications of virtual environments (virtual
reality) as a simulation tool in architecture. State-of-the-art computer models
for thermal, lighting and acoustic analysis will be introduced.
632-005.
Concepts of Structures. McCleary
A
classification of structural configurations considering the significance of
their dimensionality, directionality, axes of restraint and degrees of freedom.
Isotropy of material, structure and mathematical space.Taxonomy of braced
frameworks, in general, and trussed beams in particular. Vector analysis of
flow of forces in extrados, intrados, and web. Comparison of bridge trusses
with USA patents. Detailed study of King-post, Queen-post and lenticular trusses.
Structural analysis of trusses using 'Graphic Statics' and computer techniques.
Introduction to Euler's 'law of topological invariance' and B. Mayor's 'Graphic
Hyperstatics' Evaluation of American trusses using J. C. Maxwell's lemma:
minimizing potential energy and proportioning of materials in tension and
compression A. G. Michell's theory of minimum volume braced frameworks: comparison
of efficiency of extant roof and bridge trusses with Michell full and half-field
configurations. Pre-stressed
tensile trusses and Le Ricolais' 'funicular polygon of revolution,' and 'stiff,
hollow rope.'Geometric
space of the tensile rope truss.
Each student interprets
a truss patented in the USA. The interpretation includes an explanation of
the historical facts, built examples and a computer structural analysis; an
evaluation of its efficiency in terms of strain energy for a given potential
energy, and in comparison to Michell's minimum volume frameworks; an expression
of the rational improvements that could be proposed.
638-001. Building Acoustics. Woodger.
This six-week course covers the fundamentals of architectural
acoustics. The lectures cover the
following topics: overview of acoustics in the built environment, the role
of the acoustic consultant and the interaction with the architect, fundamentals
of sound - sound measurement and representation, sound generation and propagation,
sound absorption and reflection and sound isolation and transmission, acoustic
materials, case studies of acoustics in building projects, the history and
future of performance space design. The course will include measurements and testing
in Irvine Hall and two assignments, one practical (Boom Box) and one theoretical
(Sound Space). The course will be
conducted by Neill Woodger, who is Principal Consultant with Arup Acoustics
office in New York.
638-002. Building Envelopes. Cavallero.
This course will focus on the parameters used in the selection,
design, and construction of high-performance building skin enclosures.
Lectures will analyze: design parameters; structural determinants as
they pertain to industry developments involving thermal expansion, lateral
and gravity loading; architectural principles; material selection; thermal;
conceptual estimating and scheduling; procurement and bidding options; construction
administration; project mock-ups and field testing.
Lectures will be hosted by Alberto Cavallero, RA, and will feature
key Kling Lindquist architects and engineers as guest lecturers.
Students will attend field trips and complete an experimental design
project.
638-003. Sustainability. Martin.
This series of six classes will discuss the issues and
current thinking in sustainable architecture:
1) Introduction: why
sustainability is important: 2) Human comfort: what makes people happy in
a building; 3) Climatic response: designing buildings that respond to the
weather; 4) Energy use: where energy is used and how to control it; 5) Materials:
reduce, re-use and recycle? ; 6) The Future: where is it all going? .
638-004.
Building Systems. Farley.
This course examines current and developing practices,
techniques and technologies in the design of the modern building systems. Through lectures and exercises, the course
will address: history and development
of systems in light of the changing definition of comfort; infrastructure
as it relates to the design and selection of individual building systems;
building automation and smart technologies; and distribution and integration
techniques for water, air, power, and information.
Lectures will be hosted by Richard Farley, AIA, PE, and will feature
key Kling Lindquist architects and engineers as guest lecturers. Students will attend field trips and complete
individual research projects.
638-005. Aesthetics of Bridges. McCleary
Case studies of BRIDGES:
Stone (Perronet), reinforced concrete (R. Maillart and O. Arup), prestressed
concrete (E. Freyssinet and R. Morandi), ferrous metal trusses (Long, Pratt,
Warren, etc.), lenticular trusses (Pauli and G. Lindenthal), suspension (A.
Roebling, O. Amman, Freeman-Fox and B. Birdsall), cable-stayed (S. Calatrava,
F. Leonhardt, J. Schliach, W. Bollmann, and A. Fink), tensile hollow ropes
(R. Le Ricolais, F. Leonhardt and O. Arup)
638-006. Temporary Shelters. McCleary
We will study enveloped or bounded spaces that offer
limited protection (shelter) for a short period of time (temporary).
What are the significant
design criteria and alternative systems (see below) related to building and
inhabiting these spaces?
The act of building considers
the processes (in time) of manufacture, fabrication, assembly, and disassembly
and the concomitant connections. What are the systems of construction and
deployment? The 'envelope' delineates (ground-floor, ceiling-roof and wall)
space (that accommodates human activities) and mediates (actively or passively)
between inner (comfort zone) and outer environments during day (light and
heat) and night (dark and cold). What are the systems of mediation for sight
(eye) and skin? Some other outer environments derive from the wind (touch),
gravity (touch and verticality), sound (ear), and smell (nose). What are the
systems of structure, acoustics, ventilation, and taste? What is the balance
between performance and efficiency, preferences and values, etc.?
Systems of 'temporary
inhabitation' that will be studied are shelters for: Nomads, military expeditions,
camping, circuses, celebratory events, exhibitions, fairgrounds, markets,
refugees, disaster relief, homeless, and so forth.
771.
Introduction to Professional Practice. (A) Conway.
This is a combined
workshop/seminar designed to acquaint students with the way architecture and
planning are practiced professionally in the U.S. and abroad. The workshop
segment will utilize an RFP (request for proposal for architectural services)
from Penn's Design and Construction Department for a 70,000 sq. ft. addition
to the Gimbel Gymnasium located on Walnut street between 37th and 38th streets.
This is a "real world" project slated for completion in 2002. The
RFP process can be seen not only as the principal means by which architects
and planners present their capabilities and experience in order to obtain
commissions, but also as a "road map" of professional practice.
To submit a convincing proposal, an individual or firm must be able to mentally
"walk through" every aspect of the project being sought--programmatic,
technological, economic, political, legal, financial and managerial--as well
as to assess the possibilities for formal, creative and philosophical expression.
This course gives students a unique opportunity to formulate design solutions
and implementation strategies in a highly realistic context not usually provided
by studio problems.
772. Professional
Practice. (B) Harris.
This course
addresses the nature, planning, management and administration of various disciplines
generally referred to as professions. The subject matter will draw on the
fields of historic preservation, architectural, engineering and legal practices;
however, the course is designed to appeal primarily to the disciplines represented
in the Graduate School of Fine Arts.
ELECTIVE
COURSES
711. Ecology,
Ethics and Architecture (A) Anderson//Vesely.
712.
Mies: In and Against the World. (B) Mertins.
An in-depth
examination of the architecture and thought of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969)
focusing on the modes of practice that he developed as an insider-critic of
modernity. Since Mies has often been miscast as a proponent of a universalizing
and instrumental rationality, this seminar uses his intellectual engagement
with counter-Enlightenment philosophy, theology, phenomenology, philosophy
of science and aesthetics to clarify his position. As in Dada, Constructivism,
or the critical realism of Walter Benjamin, Siegfried Kracauer, or Romano
Guardini, Mies saw no choice but to accept the modern world as historically
given and treat it as "a task." The seminar explores how Mies sought
to intervene in the unfolding of a world dominated by science and technology
- in the destruction of experience, the domination of nature, and the eclipse
of culture. Through close study of selected buildings and their historical
and discoursive contexts, the seminar identifies the techniques Mies developed
for engaging in "battles of spirit" - promoting the emergence not
only of a new architecture, but of new ways of living, new modes of experience,
and an ethics of self-construction in and against the world. The course concludes
by considering Mies's work in relation to contemporary architecture and the
discourse on emergence.
713. Readings.
(A) Rykwert.
Readings and
evaluation of the significant theories in the major architecural treatises,
e.g., Vitruvius, Alberti, Viollet-le-Duc, Ruskin, and Le Corbusier.
714. (AMES497)
Chinese Architecture. (B) Steinhardt
Survey of Chinese
buildings and building technology from the formative period in the second
millennium B.C. through the twentieth century. The course will deal with well-known
monuments such as the Buddhist monasteries of Wutai,imperial
palaces in Chang'an and Beijing, the Ming tombs and the Temple of Heaven,
and less frequently studied buildings. Also covered will be the theory and
principles of Chinese construction.
715. The
Question of Style. (A) Rybczynski.
Although architects
maintain that thir designs are informed by ideas, they
generally deny that the way that these ideas are expressed-style-is also consequential.
This seminar explores the question of architectural styles: what it is, what
role it plays in design, the issue of eclecticism, and how style is affected
by fashion and taste. This advanced seminar stresses student participation
and initiative in the investigation of an important but often ignored topic.
716. Adolf
Loos (B) Vanduzer
“No more original genius!
Let us repeat ourselves again and again.” — Adolf Loos, “Heimatkunst”
Loos repeated himself
over and over again in his numerous essays and his architectural production.
This seminar will examine his personal philosophy, its sources and its influence.
Primary and secondary texts will be studied to gain a thorough understanding
of Loos's attitude towards tradition, architectural representation, building
materials, the economy of space, imitation, art and architecture, artistic
will, classical antiquity, vernacular architecture, social housing, the Gesamtkunstwerk,
masking, the readymade, and of course, ornament. Our examination of Loos's
projects will focus largely on his little-known, but extensive body of work
in the Czech Republic. With the exception of the recently renovated Villa
Müller in Prague, Loos’s Czech oeuvre, which includes more than three
dozen projects, has received little scholarly attention. The work of this
seminar will contribute to a catalogue and a traveling exhibition scheduled
to open at the Prague Castle in 2005.
717. Rereading
Modern Architecture. (A) Conway.
This seminar
undertakes a feminist rereading of selected themes in modern architecture
from the second half of the nineteenth century to the present. It questions
the account of aesthetic breakthroughs, technical innovations, and vanguard
positions privileged in the "master narratives" (Pevsner, Hitchcock, Giedion,
Banham, Tafuri, et al.) by bringing new critical perspectives on gender issues
to bear on a series of historical topics. The role played by women practicioners,
theorists, and critics is placed in specific social and cultural contexts.
Discussions of readings, including historical and theoretical material, original
documents and recent interpretations, are supplemented by slide talks.
719. The
Art of China. (A) Steinhardt.
A broad survey
of Chinese architecture, sculpture, and painting from the Neolithic age through
the nineteenth century. Topics include excavated material from China's bronze
age, Chinese funerary arts, Buddhist caves and sculpture (including works
in the University Museum), the Chinese city, the Chinese garden, and major
masterpieces of Chinese painting.
720. The Arts of Japan. Steinhardt.
A general
survey of Japanese architecture, sculpture, and painting from Jomon pottery
through Japanese woodblock prints. Topics covered include art of the tumulus era,
Buddhist art of the Nara and Heian periods, medieval scroll painting, the Japanese castle, screen painting,
and later Japanese painting.
721. Drawing
and Invention. (A) Chun
Representation course
that explores various processes of inventive making and communicating through
drawing. The seminars and assignments will focus on topics such as collage
and montage, design-build process: reading, drawing + construction, pataphysics,
surrealism in architecture: the exquisite corpse.
722. Between Line and Shadow.
(B) Weiss.
Lines
of speculation precede the lines directing the boundaries of construction;
drawings are a path from abstraction to realization. Line, shadow, and perspective,
explored through different media, are the language of inquiry. As a laboratory
to explore the use of multiple and mixed media, including ink wash on plastic,
charcoal and graphite over photographs, digital combined with freehand drawing,
the course is designed to recognize the capacity of different media to intensify
varying agendas of expression. As a series of superimposed media loops, the
course seeks to establish the terms between line and shadow, vision and construction,
engaging the intuitive and ephemeral with the highly precise.
731. Experiments
in Structure. (A) McCleary.
Studies, through
PHYSICAL modeling, of the relationship between STRUCTURE and SPACE within
configurations in TENSION. Among the topics investigated are: Internal and
external prestressing; minimal surfaces (and soap films); hollow ropes; cable
trusses; deployment; and weaving, basketry and braiding. Each student explores,
through a series of physical models and tests, a structural-spatial concept.
The results are documented in the models and a final research report.
732. Building Systems Integration. (A) Malkawi.
This course explores the interrelationships of environmental
control systems by means of building type studies. Innovative systems will be emphasized. Projects
such as residential, educational and commercial buildings, office and assembly
buildings, and facilities for research and manufacturing will be analyzed
in details. The Operational characteristics
of buildings will be studied with regard to occupancies and their needs.
The relationship between energy conservation and the principles of
initial building cost versus life cycle costs will be discussed.
741. Contemporary
Ideas in Architecture. (A) Rahim.
This seminar will explore
conceptual organizational schema, and their manifestation in architectural
production, as presented by Experimental Architects using digital media. One
of the most obvious characteristics of the media is the way in which it brings
about changes in the patterns of physical objects and processes from conception
to production. The thought process that accompanies this change is agile and
relies on a wide-ranging knowledge of philosophy, cultural theory and the
natural sciences. We will be examining these three intellectual lineages and
their various influences on, and ramifications for, conceptual thought processes,
spatial organizations and techniques of manufacturing and construction available
today.
742. Digital
Morphogenesis. (B) Kolarevic.
This
seminar course examines methods in contemporary architectural design in which
digital media is employed not as a representational tool for visualization
but as a generative tool for the derivation of form and its transformation
– the digital morphogenesis. It explores the possibilities for the "finding
of form," which the emergence of various digitally based generative techniques
seem to bring about. The course surveys the digital generative processes based
on concepts such as topological space, isomorphic surfaces, kinematics and
dynamics, keyshape animation, parametric
design, and genetic algorithms, and demonstrates their use in contemporary
architectural design.
743. Digital
Media I. (A) Faculty
Investigation
of historic and contemporary theories and operative methodologies of media
as they have extended the perception of space and architecture. We will specifically
focus on the interdependence of sequential images, communication and an assumed
extended notion of knowledge within the paradigm of an information age. Additionally,
emerging phenomena such as increasing formal and functional abstractions,
the disconnection of the body, new laws of proximity and increased automatism
will be explored as a necessary basis for an argument of mediation. Topics
vary. Please contact the Department for the most recent description.
744. Digital
Fabrication. (B) Kolarevic.
This
seminar course will investigate the fabrication of digital structures through
the use of rapid prototyping (RP) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies,
which offer the production of building components directly from 3D digital
models. In contrast to the industrial-age paradigms of prefabrication and
mass production in architecture, this course focuses on the development of
repetitive non-standardized building systems (mass-customization) through
digitally
controlled variation and serial differentiation. Various RP
and CAM technologies are introduced with examples of
use in contemporary building design and construction.
745. Information
Culture: The Web as Polis. (A) Di Simone.
The ubiquity and ease
of publishing content on the web has helped define a culture, a culture that
architects are engaging actively by leveraging unique ideas of inhabitation
and experience through graphical and technical means. The online medium has
borrowed from many analog precedents including graphic design, film and architecture,
but finds its success in collapsing these models into a unique form of communication
through experience in the evolving datascape. When this experience is coupled
with theoretical and philosophical underpinnings, there exists the potential
for an unprecedented medium of expression.
748.
Digital Media Techniques. Veikos.
Technique: a method of accomplishing a desired
effect. Media: the material/virtual
means of transmission of the desired effect. This seminar will investigate
specific media-based techniques and their latent ideologies through the analysis
of selected paintings, photographs and films. Lectures and discussions of
selected texts will examine how these techniques have impacted architectural
culture in the modern period. A critical study of learned perceptions and
conventions of seeing and of the media that stand between that which we believe
to be real and the image will serve as the basis for creative investigations
into depictions of space and material using digital media. By introducing
themes that outline intersections between media-specific techniques and architectural
practice, the course will enable the creative exploration of new methodologies
and techniques related to digital media and its implications on the representation
and formation of space. There will be a required presentation that will be
developed into a final paper or project.
752. Case Studies/Urban
Design. (B) Hack.
Three case studies will explore the many dimensions of
urban design, focusing this year on "vision" or "ideology"
as the driving force behind those projects which go beyond mere "big
architecture" or "planning with a pencil:" First, a comparison
of Presbyterian Yale University and Quaker / non-sectarian University of Pennsylvania, exploring the campus
as urban design paradigm; second, Battery Park City, one of the most successful
urban design projects in the United States, now to be re-examined in the wake
of September 11; third, an investigation
of Las Vegas, the transformation of The Strip and its role as precursor of the 21st century American city
(field trip scheduled over Spring Break). In addition to Architecture enrollments, maximum
nine students to be accepted from the Department of City and Regional Planning,
the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning and / or the
Program in Historic Preservation.
753. (UDES753)
Mapping the Non-Traditional City. (A) Snyder.
Architectural/urban
culture conventionally defines urban form as a result of the forces of production--a
dense centralized core that served the advantages of agglomeration economics.
This is the paradigm of the traditional city. However, the facts of our contemporary
economy reveal instead an economy driven by the forces of consumption. It
has been observed that the "transformation of persons from workers into modern
consumers in a global marketplace may well have been the greatest social change
since industrialization." In the non-traditional city both physical and cultural
juxtapositions abound. The spatialization of contemporary life and the physical
forms and fabric that supports it call into question traditional definitions
of "urban life" and "city form". The seminar's broad context is the interface
between the changing spatial and cultural landscape of this new urban realm
and the context of everyday private and public life.
762. Design
& Development. (B) Rybczynski.
Many factors affect architectural design, including architectural style,
building technology, functional demands, social needs, and the forces of the
marketplace. The examples discussed
focus on the places where we live, work, shop, and play. Topics include domestic design, planned communities,
and new urbanism. The course consists
of lectures, reading assignments, short essays, a group project, and an exam.
Invited lecturers include architects, real estate developers, and homebuilders. Readings consist of a Bulkpack available from
Wharton Reprographics. There are two
books recommended for additional background reading. Douglas Frantz, "From the Ground Up: The
Business of Building in the Age of Money," and Witold Rybczynski,"Looking
Around: A Journey Through Architecture."
765. Project
Management. (A) Arena.
An introduction
to techniques and tools of managing the design and implementation of large
construction projects. Topics include delivery systems, management tools,
cost-control and budgeting systems, professional roles.
Case studies serve to illustrate applications. Cost-control and budgeting
systems are described. Case studies illustrate the application of techniques
in the field.
768. (REAL821,
UDES768) Real Estate Development. (B) Nakahara.
This
course analyzes the development process in terms of the different functions
performed by real estate developers and architects, and the interrelationships,
between these two professions. Emphasis is placed on property evaluation site planning, building
design, underlying economics and discounted cash flow analysis. Outside lecturers are featured.
772.
Professional Practice. Harris.
This
course addresses the nature, planning, management and administration of various
disciplines generally referred to as professions.
The subject matter will draw on the fields of historic preservation,
architectural, engineering and legal practices; however, the course is designed
to appeal primarily to the disciplines represented in the Graduate School
of Fine Arts.
773. Metamorphosis.
(A) Atkin.
This course
will investigate building as the transformation of the exisiting character
of the site, the program, and the
architect. The evolution of building form will be examined through the study
of the determinants and morphological strategies modification. To inform our
study, we will examine concepts of metamorphosis in mythology, literature,biology,
and cultural anthropology. We will ground the investigation through the interpretive
study of the building process and architecture of pre-historic societies of
Southwest America, Japan, Renaissance Rome and Turin,
and the contemporary work of Carlo Scarpa, Alvaro Siza and Juan Navarro Baldeweg
and others. In addition to seminar and lecture readings, students will be
required to investigage an aspect of metamorphosis in architecture, urban
design, or landscape through an interpretive study of their own design,developed
in consultation with the professor, and presented to class.
774. Acoma
Workshop. (B) Atkin.
The Pueblo
of Acoma has invited the Department of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania
and Cornerstones Community Partnerships of Sante Fe to participate in ongoing
conservation, design and construction projects at the
Pueblo. The Acoma propose to further document and conserve their old pueblo
and its ancient church, San Esteban del Rey, and to make new housing and other
community buildings which are appropriate to their climate, history
and culture,
based on indigenous models. The proposed venue for new construction is 14
units of HUD sponsored housing and a new visitor's center and tribal museum.
The coursework will investigate how and why local knowledge and culture are
embodied in indigenous building form and landscapes and how these ideas might
be integrated with modern building practice. Studies will include both the
theoretical and technical bases for such an endeavor and their practical application
at one of America's most ancient and venerable cultural sites.
775. This
Place Needs an Attitude. (A) Snyder.
This research seminar
will address topics in contemporary civic identity. The focus will be Las
Vegas where issues particular to a city of tourism and leisure appear in sharp
relief to the local context. Las Vegas is also the fastest growing city in
the country with rapidly growing new communities of both Americans and immigrants.
Adjacencies of cultures, tastes and values abound. The underlying premise
of the seminar is that sprawl is the form of the contemporary city and that
expressions of the commercial and media worlds are integral to understanding
contemporary American life. The seminar will frame a set of issues of civic
identity for specific student-directed topics: the implicit conflict between
the identity of a leisure destination and a local place to live, the expression
of civic identity in places too new to have a history but already connected
to a national brandscape and the integration/separation of old and new Vegas,
new and resident cultures.
776. (AMES287,
AMES587) Japanese Architececture. (B) Atkin.
A lecture course
examining contemporary Japanese architectureal practice through the study
and understanding of significant points in its traditional development compared
with current practice, as explained by contemporary architects and found in
the close examination of their work. Lectures by Atkin, Steinhardt, Locher,
Maruyama, Fujimori, Leatherbarrow, Kuroishi, Kohyama, Buntrock and others.
Field trips to Shofuso in Fairmount Park, the Edo
Exhibition in Washington, DC, and office and construction sites in New York
City.
780. Architecture
in the Schools. (B) Faculty.
Architecture
in the Schools is a program which allows an architecture student to explore
the values and methods of teaching school children about the built environment,
to provide an important public service, and to organize the theoretical and
practical training he or she has received in a way which heightens his or
her own learning. Working as a part of a team with a classroom teacher and
a practicing architect, the student develops weekly lesson plans and leads
the class through exercises, field trips and presentations designed by the
team. A final report is required.
812.Theory of Architecture II. (B) Furjan.
A continuation
of ARCH 811.
999. Independent
Study. (C) Faculty.
These studies
are arranged between the faculty and students in areas of mutual interest.
SUMMER
PROGRAMS
500. Summer
Preparatory Studios . (L) Mitnick.; 2 c.u.
The summer
architectural preparatory program offers an intensive design experience to
candidates for admission to graduate programs in architecture who have not
completed the necessary prerequisites or are required to have additional design
experience to qualify for acceptance into a Master of Architecture program.
782. Summer
Program in Paris. (L) McCleary.
Studies of
historical development of the city plan and architecture of Paris. Emphasis
on building and urban technology and the continuum of material, constructional
and structural systems and space. Among those architects and engineers studied
are: Gothic Masters, Perronet, Rondolet, Polonceau, Labrouste, Viollet-le-Duc,
Baltard, Eiffel, Astruc, Guimard, Sauvage, Hennibique, Perret, Chareau, LeCorbusier,
Freyassinet, Prouve, Nouvel, Piano, Perrault, Arup, Rice, and Ritchie. Half
of the lectures and site visits are conducted by Penn faulty: Peter McCleary
and Annette Fierro. Other lectures conducted by faculty and architects from
Paris and Lausanne: David Bigelman, Jean-Louis Cohen, Maurice Culot, Marc
Deming, Jacques Fredet, Jacques Gubler, Bernard Huet, Fernando Montes, Antoine
Picon and Serge Santelli.
784.
Summer Program in Japan. (L) Maruyama/Atkin/Fierro.
The course
is a broad introduction to the architecture and building practices of Japan,
including the historic and contemporary development of Japanese concepts of
space, materials and technology. Interpretive studies of significant buildings
and landscapes will be made during three weeks of structured travel at sites
including Takeyama, Shirakawago, Ise, Koyasan, Kyoto, Ine, Osaka, and Kobe.
The course also includes a workshop with young Japanese architects. Special
emphasis on the study of landscape design or urban Japan can be arranged with
the instructors.
PH.D.
COURSES
811. Theory
I. (A) Leatherbarrow.
This seminar
attempts to restore the questionableness of topics which persist in architectural
theory. While built works and drawn projects will be the point of focus in
the course, the materials used include original treatises, essays and letters.
This course will act as a foundation for scholarly research and publication.
812. Theory
II. (B) Furjan.
A continuation
of ARCH 811
850. Special
Topics - Architecture and Philosophy. (A) Leatherbarrow.
The aim of
this course is to discover and investigate the possible contribution twentieth
century philosophy can make to contemporary architectural discourse. The working
premise is that these texts were written for readers both in and outside that
discipline. Specific philosophical texts will be studied, partly in themselves
but also as they shed light on topics that regularly concern architects. The
course will be run as a reading seminar, and is intended for upper level Ph.D.
students. For admission to the course permission of the instructor is required.
851. Bibliography.
(D) Faculty.
Preparation
of student's bibliography in conjunction with the professor chosen as his/her
dissertation supervisor. Section number will be determined accordingly.
852. Dissertation
Proposal. (D) Faculty.
Student will
formulate his/her dissertation proposal with the guidance of the professor
chosen as his/her dissertation supervisor. Section number will be determined
accordingly.
revised 10 January 2003