NEW FALL 2010 COURSES
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1. ART HISTORY 370: Trends in Contemporary Architecture
2. LEARNING FROM NEW ORLEANS Arch 825, 645, 533, 585
Fall 2010: Arch 585 Fridays 9-11:50AM; Arch 825/645 TuThF 1:30-5:20 PM; Arch 533 M 9-11:50 AM
Professors Oudenallen, Sen, Sobti
3. ARCH 734: Contemporary Readings in Architectural Theory
Fall 2010: Mo 5:30-8:10 PM, AUP 183
Professor: Linda Krause
4. ARCH 551: American Vernacular Architecture, HISTORY OF AMERICAN HOUSING
Fall 2010: Monday, 6:00 PM to 8:40 PM, AUP 110
Professor Tom Hubka
5. Geography 727: QUALITATIVE METHODS
Fall 210: Thursday, 4:30 – 7:10 pm, Bolton 487
Professor Judith Kenny
3. ARCH 734: Contemporary Readings in Architectural Theory
Fall 2010: Mo 5:30-8:10 PM, AUP 183
Professor: Linda Krause
4. ARCH 551: American Vernacular Architecture, HISTORY OF AMERICAN HOUSING
Fall 2010: Monday, 6:00 PM to 8:40 PM, AUP 110
Professor Tom Hubka
5. Geography 727: QUALITATIVE METHODS
Fall 210: Thursday, 4:30 – 7:10 pm, Bolton 487
Professor Judith Kenny
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ART HISTORY 370
Trends in Contemporary Architecture
Fall 2010: Tues/Thurs 11-12:15
Mitchell 195
Professor Jennifer Johung
Office: 147C Mitchell Hall
Email: johung@uwm.edu
Office Hours:
This course examines current trends in architectural practice, focusing on the materiality and temporality of organic, animate, portable, interactive, sustainable and bio-mimetic structures within performative, digital, and virtual architectures. Today, buildings are no longer only conceived as objects, but are designed and constructed according to what they do on site or how they perform in response to their users’ needs. Through a selection of contemporary case studies, we will explore a building’s flexible relationship to its physical or digital environment while analyzing its bodily-like movement and responsiveness to both real and virtual users.
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LEARNING FROM NEW ORLEANS (6 – 3 – 3 credits)
LEARNING FROM NEW ORLEANS (6 – 3 – 3 credits)
“Learning from New Orleans” is a course on social justice and urban rebuilding. Students can take 12 credits of coursework that bundles 6 credits of design studio (ARCH 645 Undergraduates & ARCH 825 Comprehensive Studio for Graduates) and 6 additional credits (3 in a History-Urbanism Seminar ARCH 533, and 3 in a Research Methods Seminar ARCH 585). Alternately they can sign up for a 3-credit research methods component (ARCH 585) or a 3-credit History-Urbanism seminar (ARCH 533) that focuses on methods of studying and reading the built environment. By accepting students in Architecture, Planning, anthropology, urban studies and other social sciences this course brings together an interdisciplinary team where learning from each other will inform the course outcome. In the context of the New Orleans’ Lower 9th Ward, where most of the physical fabric and infrastructure has been decimated, the course seeks suggestions for rebuilding and strategies of development of the built environment that engage both local residents and urban/local government. Such access to community is otherwise difficult, but prior work in the area by instructors will allow us to use local contacts and settings. The collected data and final projects will be compiled as a white paper and given to the local community residents and leaders at the end of the semester.
Students will study historical and current information on buildings, residents, infrastructure, ecology, political stakeholders, public spaces and institutions and building codes/policies as “forms of resources” and suggest strategies of equitable development (of the built environment) using these resources. The research methods course will help students collate and analyze human, demographic, ethnographic, environmental and ecological, building, infrastructure, and planning/design policy data. The supporting urban history course ARCH 533/Sobti, 3 credits) will explore how politics of place informed rebuilding of other devastated cities across the world in the past.
Instructors
Arijit Sen teaches American cultural landscapes, theory and design. Professor Sen’s research focuses on the politics of place and identity and the role of race and gender in the production of ethnicity among immigrants in the United States. Sen is completing a book manuscript entitled "Mobile Bodies, Transgressing Selves: Politics of Place and South Asian Identity."
Manu P. Sobti teaches urban design, non-Western architecture and seminar courses in urban history, and directs UWM’s India Winterim. Professor Sobti’s research focuses on the urban history of early-medieval Islamic cities along the Silk Road and in the Indian Subcontinent. He is currently working on a manuscript entitled "The Sliver of the Oxus Borderland: Medieval Cultural Encounters between the Arabs and Persians," which collates fieldwork in libraries, repositories and archives across Central Asia.
Harry Van Oudenallen has taught at SARUP since 1979 where his students have won competition awards, excelled in design, and developed a mature process for lifelong improvement as future architects. He has been recognized as an ACSA Distinguished Professor for his commitment to teaching and practice and has been involved in disaster relief housing in Honduras, irregular settlement development in Colombia and Mexico, and Community Development theory and application throughout his academic career and professional career.
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Contemporary Readings in Architectural Theory
Instructor: Linda Krause Architecture 734
Office: AUP 283 Fall 2010
Hours: by appt. AUP 183
E-mail: lrkrause@uwm.edu Mon. 5:30-8:10
Description
Contemporary Reading in Architectural Theory is a graduate level seminar. It considers the ways in which prominent critics have explored the meaning(s) of architecture and urban design during the past 35 years. The course examines how a wide range of architectural commentators sees the meaning, role, and significance of the built environment. Among the critiques we will read are those by structuralists, semioticians, post-structuralists, neo-Marxists, feminists, phenomenologists, landscape urbanists, and others. We’ll read selections from prominent architects and also those philosophers, literary critics, linguists, and others who have influenced architectural discourse. The readings, precisely because they represent such diverse disciplines, require close attention to the text but they reward us by opening our discussion of the built environment to provocative and diverse viewpoints.
Requirements: You are expected to attend all class meetings, complete assigned readings, participate in and moderate class discussions, give a formal presentation on your paper topic, and submit a research paper.
Discussion Participant: Informed participation in class discussion greatly contributes to the success of a seminar. Discussion participation accounts for 20% of your final grade.
Discussion Moderator: You’ll be asked to co-moderate two class sessions. Moderators summarize salient points from the readings and select various issues, suggested by the readings, to help focus the discussion. Moderating constitutes 20% of your grade.
Formal Presentation: Each student will give a 30-45 minute formal presentation on a topic relevant to the course subject matter. Presentations are typically on the same topic as your research paper. You may also choose a topic other than your research paper. Relevant handouts and any necessary visual aids (PowerPoint, slides, maps, photocopies, photos, film, video, etc) accompany presentations. The formal presentation constitutes 20% of your grade.
Research Paper: The largest single (and only written) portion of your grade is a research paper on a topic approved by me. You’ll have the chance to develop your organization and writing skills through early submission of topics, bibliographies, and draft versions of your papers. The final version of the paper is a 12-15, double-spaced, pages (excluding endnotes, footnotes, bibliography, and illustrations). Papers account for 40% of your grade.
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Contemporary Readings in Architectural Theory
Instructor: Linda Krause Architecture 734
Office: AUP 283 Fall 2010
Hours: by appt. AUP 183
E-mail: lrkrause@uwm.edu Mon. 5:30-8:10
Description
Contemporary Reading in Architectural Theory is a graduate level seminar. It considers the ways in which prominent critics have explored the meaning(s) of architecture and urban design during the past 35 years. The course examines how a wide range of architectural commentators sees the meaning, role, and significance of the built environment. Among the critiques we will read are those by structuralists, semioticians, post-structuralists, neo-Marxists, feminists, phenomenologists, landscape urbanists, and others. We’ll read selections from prominent architects and also those philosophers, literary critics, linguists, and others who have influenced architectural discourse. The readings, precisely because they represent such diverse disciplines, require close attention to the text but they reward us by opening our discussion of the built environment to provocative and diverse viewpoints.
Requirements: You are expected to attend all class meetings, complete assigned readings, participate in and moderate class discussions, give a formal presentation on your paper topic, and submit a research paper.
Discussion Participant: Informed participation in class discussion greatly contributes to the success of a seminar. Discussion participation accounts for 20% of your final grade.
Discussion Moderator: You’ll be asked to co-moderate two class sessions. Moderators summarize salient points from the readings and select various issues, suggested by the readings, to help focus the discussion. Moderating constitutes 20% of your grade.
Formal Presentation: Each student will give a 30-45 minute formal presentation on a topic relevant to the course subject matter. Presentations are typically on the same topic as your research paper. You may also choose a topic other than your research paper. Relevant handouts and any necessary visual aids (PowerPoint, slides, maps, photocopies, photos, film, video, etc) accompany presentations. The formal presentation constitutes 20% of your grade.
Research Paper: The largest single (and only written) portion of your grade is a research paper on a topic approved by me. You’ll have the chance to develop your organization and writing skills through early submission of topics, bibliographies, and draft versions of your papers. The final version of the paper is a 12-15, double-spaced, pages (excluding endnotes, footnotes, bibliography, and illustrations). Papers account for 40% of your grade.
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ARCH 551: American Vernacular Architecture,
ARCH 551: American Vernacular Architecture,
HISTORY OF AMERICAN HOUSING
Tom Hubka, Professor
Office: Room 399
E-mail: thubka@uwm.edu
Tel: 414-229-5336
Monday, 6:00 pm to 8:40 pm
Room 110, Architecture Building
This course will analyze the architecture of American dwellings (single and multi-unit housing) and the patterns of domestic usage within these houses. Although houses from all periods will be studied, the primary focus is the period of national, modern housing development, 1870-1970. Similarly, although American housing has most often been studied through stylistic analysis of upper/middle-class housing, this course will emphasize the interpretation of the largest segment of popular, middle- and working-class housing. The course is guided by an orientation to material cultural studies which emphasizes the importance of careful artifact/building analysis as a means of understanding the various ways that people inhabit, create, imagine and interpret their domestic realm.
Objectives:
- To gain a comprehensive overview of American housing and domesticity.
- To develop a typological analysis of housing based on plan type and room usage.
- To set housing within a cultural-historical context to explain the linkage between material expression, symbolism, and domestic usage.
- To bring a full range of building, landscape, and cultural studies to the interpretation of housing and domestic environments.
Course Organization: Lectures will follow the chronological development of American housing types and are organized around the major eras and types of popular housing: European Precedents, Early Republic, Regional and National Types, Industrialized Housing, Bungalow/Progressive Era, Ranch/Modern Era. Lectures and readings will emphasize the relationship between building construction/plan organization and domesticity/family usage.
Field Work—Housing Research Paper: Each student will conduct a preliminary survey of the various house types in a Milwaukee neighborhood (or a selected town) as background for a paper on a historical housing topic related to the neighborhood housing.
Course Requirements: This is a graduate lecture/seminar course with require readings and class discussion of assigned weekly topics. There will be a mid-term and a non-cumulative final examination. The field work and related research paper will be evaluated in a series of developmental assignments and meetings with the instructor.
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DRAFT (Aug. 2010)
Professor Judith Kenny Fall 2010
Department of Geography
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Geography 727: QUALITATIVE METHODS
Class Time: Thursday, 4:30 – 7:10 pm
Class Location: Bolton 487
Office Hours: TBA
Interactive interviews, archival research, participant observation, and focus groups. These are all qualitative methods that will be examined in Qualitative Methods in Geography. Beyond the “how to” of qualitative methods, we will explore the relationship between quantitative and qualitative approaches, issues of interpretation of qualitative data (i.e. representation & positionality), and the ethics involved in your field work. The course will be conducted as a seminar with literature drawn from urban studies, anthropology, sociology, and history as well as geography. In addition to your active engagement with the readings, the class will operate as a “workshop” – where you will engage with various research questions as a means of considering theoretical, methodological and ethical concerns associated with the conduct of research.
COURSE EVALUATION:
Items Grade Date Due
Preliminary Evaluations of Research Questions/Methods
Assignment #1 5% Sept. 9th
Assignment #2 5% Sept. 16th
Reaction Papers
Reaction Paper #1 –Epistemological Stances 10% (by)Oct. 7th
Reaction Paper #2 – Strategies/Methodologies 10% (by)Nov. 11th
‘Workshop’ Project
Proposal 5% Nov. 4th
Final Project 25% Dec. 16th
Presentation – Final Project 10% Dec. 9th
Class Discussion (regular participation/lead discussion) 30% semester long
READINGS:
The readings are accessed in these ways:
* There is one assigned texts:
Hay, Iain (2005) Qualitative Research Methods in Human Geography. Oxford: OUP
* Book chapters & journal articles are available at the course’s D2L site.