Tech Designated Elective: Seeing Architecture: Technology, Ecology, Practice

The course will ask students to consider how we see architecture from both a technological and ecological basis ? that is how we understand buildings within the larger global environment we co-habit; as well as how we can learn from booth our past as well as the earth itself ? from ?the ever nonobjective to which we are subject? to ?an object that stands before us and can be seen? (Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art, 1950). The implications of design, and more specifically the future work of architects. Through a series of lectures and readings, students will have the opportunity to consider building, both as a subjective act and an objective consequence of architectural workflows within the larger framework of built ecologies and ecologies of thought.