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READING :: designer "Human Nature in Architectural Theory" by Robert Gutman |
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MOVIE :: designer No Direction Home – Parts I + II [Scorcese, 2005] |
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READING :: client Katrina |
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MOVIE :: client Chinatown [Roman Polanski, 1974] |
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PROJECT First project due :: Design a memorial to the designer and the client. The title of your memorial is to be: "Songs of Innocence and of Experience." Summon the shades of Kahn, Dylan, Katrina, Katherine, and also your innocent and experienced self. |
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READING :: user "Lived In Architecture" by Phillipe Boudon |
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MOVIE :: user Moby Dick [Huston, 1956] |
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SLIDESHOW :: user Honolulu [2004] |
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READING :: work "The Accordion Maker" from Accordion Crimes by E. Annie Proulx |
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MOVIE :: work Man With a Movie Camera [Dziga Vertov, 1929] |
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SLIDESHOW:: work South Platte [1996] |
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PROJECT Second project due :: Absolutely no later than 4pm on March 5th, build [erect, nestle] Project 1 at full scale within the city limits of Boulder [modified to include class materials through Man With A Movie Camera and if you can, the S. Platte slideshow]. Document what happens to the built project during a minimum of 24 hours. [It should be discernable what additional shades you are summoning. Ideally some of the work done on your project will be performed by the shades that you have summoned.] |
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:: MIDTERM Students with last names beginning with A through N come to Muen E050 [regular room] Students with last names beginning with O through Z come to Duane Physics G1B30 |
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READING :: perception Jolande Jacobi, The Psychology of CG Jung, New Haven, Yale UP, 1973, 8th Edition, ix-59. |
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MOVIE :: perception "Project Runway" [television, Bravo, episodes TBA] |
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SLIDESHOW :: perception New York [1979 + 1987] |
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READING :: memory Jolande Jacobi, The Psychology of CG Jung, New Haven, Yale UP, 1973, 8th Edition, 60-151. |
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NO KLASS :: SPRING BREAK |
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MOVIE :: memory One Hour Photo [Mark Romanek, 2002] |
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SLIDESHOW :: memory |
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PROJECT Third project due :: Wear to class a costume of your own design that fits you and covers your nakedness. You, inhabiting your costume, should make us perceive a reality normally hidden and a memory normally screened. |
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READING :: learning "Shaman" from The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong-Kingston |
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MOVIE :: learning Lost In Translation [Sophia Coppola, 2003] |
SLIDESHOW :: learning Minneapolis [2003] |
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READING :: imagination Review :: Jung |
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MOVIE :: imagination Shakespeare In Love [John Madden, 1998] |
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SLIDESHOW :: imagination Budapest / Vienna / Venice [2002] |
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PROJECT Fourth-and-last project due :: Help me recall a whiff of the other shore.
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NO KLASS:: final exam on May 11th | FINAL:: 10:30-1:00pm [all students in CHEM140] |
C o u r s e S y l l a b u s
This course critically evaluates built environments and considers how social and individual behavior is reflected in and influenced by the built environment.
The purpose of this course is to make you well acquainted with significant contemporary perspectives on the complex relationships between human beings and the constructed environment. This acquaintanceship will benefit you not merely because of the general interest of the topic; not only because as an everyday user of constructed environments you are tacitly dependent on a high degree of environmental competence; but also because as a potential design professional you must know how to take social factors into account in envisioning any contemplated intervention.
The work of architecture is the outcome of an interaction over time between client, architect, and users. As we shift perspective from experiencing the work of architecture as if it were an object marooned in space to being able to experience it as an event embedded in time, the work disrobes into a narrative authored not by the architect nor the client nor yet the generations of users but rather co-produced by them all.
An event in time, in its own turn, unfolds from the perceptions, from the memories, from the lessons of the imaginings of the individuals involved in the co-production of the event. So, the group narrative that is architecture embeds itself as it is embedded in psychological as well as social acts.
The act of imagining, a subdued inner act, is the shadow twin of being an actor in a co-production; it is not merely shadow, it is rather at the same time a foreshadowing which makes it either the shadow of a shadow or the corporeal double of a corporeal double—in movement. From this perspective then the work of architecture is not only make-believe it is also believe-making.
Each work of architecture is a cloak worn by all the people involved in its-co-production. As the work embeds its actors this becomes a cloak of invisibility—the actors submerge into an ensemble, a kinesic movement, a group gesture, the “individuals” are now pure time-space slices.
.: Joe Juhasz
Office hours: MW 2:00 - 4:00 , or by appt.
ENVD 112
303 492 8191; 303 556 3471
303 449 4791 Home
juhaszj@colorado.edu
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~jjuhasz/
.::TAs
Jordan Lucy :: Mon 2:45-3:45 in the Carpet Garden :: coronared101@hotmail.com
Alicia Ajayi:: Thurs 2:30-3:30 in the 2nd floor studio, ENVD building :: alshoaja@comcast.net
Whitney Boykin:: Tues 12:30-1:30 in the Carpet Garden :: Whitney.Boykin@colorado.edu
Shahnaz Jaffari :: Wed 2:45-3:45 in ECCE 153:: shahnazjaffari@yahoo.com
Claire Harlow:: Mon 5:30-6:30 in the Carpet Garden :: claire.harlow@gmail.com
Jessica Gavello :: Thurs 11:00-12:00 in the Carpet Garden:: Jessica.Gavello@colorado.edu
Liz Wolfert :: Tues 2:00-3:00 in the Carpet Garden :: Elizabeth.Wolfert@colorado.edu
Sam Grabowska :: Wed 5:30-6:30 @ Burnt Toast by appt. :: sgrabowska@gmail.com
Bryan Heidmous :: Wed 11:30-12:30 in the Carpet Garden :: bryan.heidmous@colorado.edu
Emily Apyan :: emilyrose3@aol.com
Arna Miller :: Fri 12:00-1:00 @ Cosmo's Pizza:: Arnalda.Miller@colorado.edu
Eric Harrington :: Mon 12:00-1:00 in the Carpet Garden :: eric.harrington@colorado.edu
C l a s s F o r m a t
As you can see above, the course is designed around eight units.
The first four units define the perspectives that social factors bring to design: The perspective of the designer, the client, and the user(s) and the complete work itself that results from the ongoing interaction between these three.
The last four units define basic psychological processes that impact upon our design and use of environments: perception, learning, memory and imagination.
The link between the first and the second half of the course is the perspective of "the work" itself--and the psychological process of perception.
After each two units, there will be a project associated with the respective material. You bring the project to class the day it is due. I will crit selected projects in class--the rest will be graded by me and the TA's and returned with a crit & a grade.
The readings and movies will be discussed in class on the days they are posted for--you need to come to class ready to discuss the reading or the movie. Do not rely on previous experience with either--however recent. Reading for this class or seeing a movie for this class is different.
No particular preparation is needed for the slide shows.
In general, expect to spend 3 hours outside of class for each hour in class for preparation, doing the projects. If with 3 hours outside class for each hour in class you are having difficulty with the class you need to see me ASAP for special help.
Please be advised that I am not a politically correct professor and that I use colloquial speech in class. Also be advised that some of the movies you will be seeing for class carry an "R" rating. If these facts are a problem for you, you need to contact me ASAP to make special arrangements.
.::EVALUATION:
Midterm: 15% (all material through Unit 4)
Final: 35% (Comprehensive; emphasis on the 2nd half of the course.)
Projects: 40% (Projects 1 - 4, 10% each)
Attendence: 10%
.::FAQ:
Are the projects purposely vague? Yes.
Are your clothes, demeanor, & self-presentation intentional? Yes. Are they part of the class? Yes.
Are the readings difficult? Yes.
Are the movies complex and hard to analyze? Yes.
Do you expect us to describe or explain our projects? No.
Are the slide shows easy to grasp? No.
Does each class have structure and do the overall arrangement of the classes have structure? Yes.
Do you explain the structure of each class, or slide show, or the overall structure of the class? No.
When you seem to be free-associating, are you in fact free-associating? No.
Do you always explain your actions? No, almost never.
When you do explain your actions do you tell the truth? No.
Does that include this question and answer? Yes.
Are all the foregoing questions answered in a frank and straightforward manner? No.
How about the last question? No, not that one either.
.::THE FILMS
All of the movies for this course are available through Netflix as well as from the Video Station and Hollywood Video in Boulder, VideoOne in Denver, the Denver Public Library, the Norlin and Public libraries in Boulder, and Blockbuster should also have them. Realize that there are many students in this course and all will be needing to watch the films at the same time. We will arrange group screenings.
The fact that you've seen a movie before does not constitute having seen it for this class. You must watch it again for this class.
.:: THE READINGS
All of the readings are available online and are linked in the course calendar on the main page.
.:: THE SLIDESHOWS
...are also linked in the calendar.
.:: THE PROJECTS
The projects are to be designed objects even if they are all text and the quality of the design "counts." The project you submit should show mastery of the materials for the course up to that point. Although explicit references to the class materials are frowned upon, you should not need to explain what class material you are incorporating into your project. Like any artist, you need to find a way of communicating that is not so opaque that an educated viewer cannot understand it, nor so blatant as to be literal. See FAQ [above].
.:: ATTENDANCE
Each student is expected to attend every class meeting having prepared fully for the day's course material. Attendance will be determined by pop quizzes and by sporadically calling out student names to answer questions during class. This will contribute to the overall course grade [10%].
.::PLAGIARISM
Students are expected to know, understand, and comply with the ethical standards of the university, including rules against plagiarism. Plagiarism is the use of another person's ideas or words without acknowledgement. The incorporation of another person's work into yours requires appropriate identifications and acknowledgement. The following are considered to be forms of plagiarism when the source is not noted: word-for-word copying of another person's ideas or words; the "mosaic" (interspersing your own words here and there while, in essence, copying another's work); the paraphrase (the rewriting of another's work, while still using their basic ideas or theories); fabrication (inventing sources); submission of another's work as your own; and neglecting quotation marks when including direct quotes. If your project relies on something that is not your own work, you must cite the source. If you are unsure about whether or not you need to cite a source, ask or simply cite it.