Courses Architectural History/Theory :: AHST 620
AHST 620
Representing Culture and Ethnicity in the Public Sphere
Instructor: R. Gonzalez
3 Credits [E]
What is public space? How is culture and ethnicity represented in the city? This seminar will explore ideas and forms of public space and public life in the city in their manifestations—civic, social, religious, formal and informal,official and unofficial, licit and illicit—primarily, but not exclusively in the United States and Latin America. The seminar also focuses on ephemeral architecture and events (i.e. world’s fairs, parades, protests, monuments and public art), which have been essential in constructing ideas about citizenship and community, and which have been employed to communicate the existence of culturally- and ethnically-based publics. The aim is to present a better understanding of the physical landscape of the public city, the particular ways that spaces foster inclusion and exclusion in urban public life, and, conversely, how various ideas of “the public” shape urban space. The readings for the course include historical and theoretical works on the idea of the public,and works of architecture, art and planning, and they are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, including architecture, urban studies, art, social history, anthropology, material culture studies,geography and cultural criticism.
- AHST 101 Ancient to Modern - Survey
- AHST 101, 110 History of Architecture I - Survey
- AHST 111 Introduction to Architecture
- AHST 230 Introduction to Architecture for Non-majors
- AHST 310 History of Architecture: Ancient-Medieval Architecture
- AHST 311 History of Architecture: Renaissance-Baroque Architecture
- AHST 312 History of Architecture: 19th-Century
- AHST 322 Modernity
- AHST 322 Modernism
- AHST 330 Islamic Architecture
- AHST 340 Frank Lloyd Wright & His Contemporaries
- AHST 341 American Urbanism
- AHST 410 Issues in Contemporary Architecture
- AHST 411 Theorizing the Real in Contemporary Practice
- AHST 412 Theory and Anti-theory in Contemporary Practice
- AHST 420 Precedents & Case Studies Practicum
- AHST 420 (421, 422) Precedents and Case Studies
- AHST 440 Philosophy of Architecture
- AHST 450 Northern Romanticism in Art and Architecture
- AHST 453 Survey of Russian Art
- AHST 463 Sexual Subjectivity and Space
- AHST 620 Representing Culture and Ethnicity in the Public Sphere
- AHST 631 The House as the American Dream
- AHST 632 Other Modernisms: The Avant-Garde in The Tropics
- AHST 640 Rethinking Anthropomorphism: Body Maps + Architectural Spaces
- AHST 651 Regional Modernism: The New Orleans Archives
- AHST 672 Urban Art and Public Space
- AHST 691 Latin American Cities
