| Arch/Inarch: Undergraduate Studio 1 |
Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects |
2001 (002) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
This two-day core design studio is the introductory course in the Arch/Inarc core studio sequence. Students learn architecture and interior architecture design processes including precedent research, formal analysis, schematic design, and design development, all using the latest software and tools. This course exemplifies the rigorous model of the architecture studio. It encourages design experimentation and provides an analytic framework for developing an advanced understanding of how drawing and model making shape design processes.
This course requires students to have a laptop that meets SAIC's minimum hardware specs and runs the AIADO template.
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Class Number
1051
Credits
6
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| What's Worth Preserving? |
Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects |
2010 (001) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
Architectural preservation, art conservation, archiving and collecting, even environmental protection: all these practices share a desire to preserve things of value, but how do we decide what's valuable? Using the laws, policies, and practices of architectural preservation as a starting point this studio will ask and propose answers to the question: what's worth preserving? Students will explore how preservation practice overlaps and complements the work of different museums, archives, and collections that define value and how they protect it; and propose strategies for assembling and maintaining their own collections in whatever media they choose.
Course readings will focus on the history and contemporary practice of preservation, conservation, and collecting, including texts by Ariella Aisha Azoulay, Daniel Bluestone, Amanda Cachia and Alice Wong, the De-Colonial Collective on Migration of Objects and People, Shannon Mattern, and Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Jorge Otero-Pailos, Leah Samples, The South Side Home Movie Project.
Course work will include weekly readings and in-class discussions and lectures. Students will work individually throughout the course to research how different institutions assemble and protect their collections, identify a subject of personal interest for preservation, and propose a preservation strategy for it in any medium of their choice.
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Class Number
2312
Credits
3
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| Worlds Collide! The Architecture of Science Fiction |
Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects |
3498 (001) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
What happens when science fiction literature encounters architecture? Worlds Collide! Whether as setting, character, or plot element, the architecture of cities, buildings, and spaces carry forward key themes of the genre including ecology and climate change; technology, bodies, and artificial intelligence; and migration and encounters with the Other. Considering the architecture of science fiction informs understanding of the complex cultural contexts in which both buildings and literature get made. Course readings will focus on selections from major works by authors Stanislaw Lem, Larissa Lai, and Charlie Jane Anders. Secondary material may include short stories, critical essays, art, architecture, film, and other contemporaneous cultural production. Course work will comprise close readings of major texts focusing on both literary and architectural analysis; in-class writing and student-led class discussion; and site-based installation projects.
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Class Number
2236
Credits
3
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| Worlds Collide! The Architecture of Science Fiction |
Liberal Arts |
3498 (001) |
Spring 2025 |
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Description
What happens when science fiction literature encounters architecture? Worlds Collide! Whether as setting, character, or plot element, the architecture of cities, buildings, and spaces carry forward key themes of the genre including ecology and climate change; technology, bodies, and artificial intelligence; and migration and encounters with the Other. Considering the architecture of science fiction informs understanding of the complex cultural contexts in which both buildings and literature get made. Course readings will focus on selections from major works by authors Stanislaw Lem, Larissa Lai, and Charlie Jane Anders. Secondary material may include short stories, critical essays, art, architecture, film, and other contemporaneous cultural production. Course work will comprise close readings of major texts focusing on both literary and architectural analysis; in-class writing and student-led class discussion; and site-based installation projects.
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Class Number
2237
Credits
3
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