Courses Urban Studies :: RBST 640
RBST 640
Architecture and the Contemporary City
Instructor: Staff
3 Credits [E]
This seminar will examine the relationship between contemporary culture, urbanism, and the practice of architecture, and how the changing conditions of the contemporary city provoke responses in avant-garde practices. Various topics (Freedom and Control, Place and Placelessness, Superficiality, Synthetic Landscapes, Formlessness, Voids, Automatic Urbanism, Dematerialized Urbanism, etc.) will be studied as a way of exploring the changing nature of the contemporary city and how political and social transformations generate theoretical discourses on architecture and the city. Referencing art, film, and cultural criticism, we will investigate a series of hypotheses concerning the current and future context of architecture.
- RBST 301 The City I
- RBST 302 The City II
- RBST 340 Design Urbanism
- RBST 341 Interpretive Urban Design
- RBST 370 Neighborhood Development
- RBST 430 Designs on Los Angeles: 20th-century Architecture, Urban Planning, and Metropolitan Imagery in the Making of America’s “Second City”
- RBST 440 “Tribal” New Orleans
- RBST 640 Architecture and the Contemporary City
- RBST 641 Urban Analysis + Design
- RBST 642 US Architecture and Urbanism
- RBST 643 Historical Geographies of New Orleans
- RBST 643 Historical Geographies of New Orleans
- RBST 691 Latin American Cities
