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Internet Protocols SP03

The Internet is an emerging informational ecology, created through the combination of a critical volume of data flow with the informational and experiential networks of the web. Its information architecture has fostered a latent ecology through the cybernetic mechanisms of iterative usage cycles and fluidly mutable digital content. Internet Protocols will explore this ecology via its matter, the various structures of synergetic data relationships, as well as its effects, the evolving cultural implications of increasingly networked experience and its ubiquity in everyday life.

LISTED UNDER: Clarke Internet SP03 Visual Studies

Digital Filmmaking SP03

The medium of film presents a challenge to the profession of architecture as both a means of communicating ideas and developing a sense of event, movement and experience in space. The Digital Filmmaking seminar explores techniques of filmmaking, such as the moving camera, layering of multiple visual planes and sequential narrative, allowing the architecture student new directions for experimentation.

LISTED UNDER: Digital Film O'Neill SP03

The Ordinary SP03

This seminar examines the development of conceptions of the banal, the common, the trivial, from modern culture to contemporary debate. Organized around a series of case studies episodes where the scrutiny of so-called existing conditions is central  it attempts to trace the notion of the ordinary in a wide range of cultural production, from Baudelaire's interest in the ephemeral to Surrealism's fascination for the objet trouvé, from Venturi's and Scott Brown's Levittown to the Smithsons's as found, from Lefebvre's everyday life to Perec's and Virilio's infra-ordinary, from Simmel to de Certeau.

LISTED UNDER: History SP03 The Ordinary Theory Walker

East by Eastwest: Modernity in Translation SP03

This seminar is designed to raise epistemological and ethical questions in approaching the architectural culture of the so-called 'non-Western' contexts. The scholarly works on Orientalism, colonialism and Eurocentrism after 1978 have illustrated that the dominant perception of the world is predicated on hierarchical dualities, such as `West` and `non-West`, center and periphery. However, the word 'non-West' (which is itself a 'Western' construct) not only refers to and simultaneously continues the ideology of an exaggerated difference between 'West' and its 'other,' but it also disavows the differences within these contexts themselves.

LISTED UNDER: Akcan East Eastwest History Modernity SP03 Theory

American Architecture since 1876 SP03

The multifarious architecture of the United States has sometimes been daringly innovative; at other times, banal and reductive. Likewise it is, even now, the product of exceptional individuals (Louis Sullivan, Louis Kahn, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frank Gehry, as well as many lesser-known architects) and more anonymous members of political administrations, financial institutions, the construction and real estate industries in addition to various clients and community groups. How do they work, together and in opposition, to create American architecture, in both its exceptional structures and its overall landscape? After all, the 20th century has seen many indigenous building-types become pervasive (the skyscraper, suburban house, shopping mall, movie theatre, and corporate scientific lab, to name just a few), not only across the continent but throughout the world.

LISTED UNDER: American History / Theory SP03 Wright