I or M.Arch. Michael Haverland, Alan Plattus, and faculty. 920b, Place, Memory, and the Urban Landscape . A seminar on the processes connecting urban history with architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and public art. Readings on theories of space and place, visual components of memory, aspects of public and private remembrance, techniques of cognitive mapping, narrative construction, representation in literature, film, art, and design.
Students develop strategies and projects for a small city.
I or M.Arch. 925a, The American Suburb . The seminar explores the suburbs as a built environment reflecting ideas about architecture and land use, family and gender, nature and culture. In addition to looking at the suburb as built, an opportunity exists to explore its representation in fiction, popular journalism, and the visual arts, and to ask how the construction of both central city and suburb is part of a larger process. A research paper and an oral report are required.