Architecture for the People?
October 1
Robert Venturi. Excerpts from Contradiction and Complexity.
Supplementary Readings:
Simon Sadler. “The Living City.” In Archigram: Architecture without Architecture (Cambrdige: MIT Press, 2005), 53-85. ER.
Sarah Goldhagen. “Reconceptualizing the Modern.” In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture, edited by Sarah Goldhagen and Rejean Legault (Cambrdige: MIT Press, 2000), 301-323. ER.
October 3
Florian Urban. “Japanese ‘Occidentalism’ and the Emergence of Postmodernism Architecture.” Journal of Architecture Education (2012): 89-102. ER.
Fumiho Maki. “The Japanese City and Inner Space.” In Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City (Cambridge, MIT Press), 150-166. ER.
Fumiho Maki. “City and Modernism.” In Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City (Cambridge: MIT Press), 82-88. ER.
October 8
Here’s a documentary about Oscar Niemeyer to watch before Tuesday’s class:
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v41221147hGr36Hxy?h1=Oscar+Niemeyer+%E2%80%93+Life+is+a+breath+of+air
Justin Read. “Alternative Functions: Oscar Niemeyer and the Politics of Modernity.” Modernism/Modernity 12, no. 2 (2005): 253-272. ER.
Florian Urban. “Brasilia, the Slab Block Capital.” In Tower and Slab: Histories of Global Mass Housing (Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2011), 79-99. ER.
October 10
Jean Louis-Cohen. “A Journey Through the Modern World: The Life and Work of Le Corbusier.” In Le Corbusier’s Secret Laboratory: From Painting to Architecture, edited by Jean Louis-Cohen and Steffan Ahrenberg (Hatje Cantz), 57-93. ER.
Peter Fitting. “Urban Planning/Utopian Dreaming: Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh Today.” Utopian Studies 13, no. 1 (2002): 69-93. ER.
The Corbusier film we watched in class:
http://www.archdaily.com/407928/video-le-corbusier-2-0/
October 15
Susan Ubbelohde, “The Dance of a Summer Day: Le Corbusier’s Sarabhai House in Ahmedabad, India” TDSR XIV: II 2003 ER
Mary McLeod, “Architecture and Revolution: Le Corbusier, Politics and Architecture 1930-1942 ER
Lauro Cavalcanti, “The Role of Modernists in the Establishment of Brazilian Cultural Heritage” Future Anterior 6:2 2009 14-31 ER
Edwin Heathcote, “Oscar Niemeyer: Curves in all the right places” Financial Times
This is a brief documentary offering an overview of Le Corbusier’s work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWbcbC7uUaQ
October 17
Fabiano Lemes de Oliveira, “Of Metabolism: future cities for our contemporary world” RISCO 14: 2 2011 ER
Malcom Miles, “Metabolism: A Japanese Modernism” Cultural Politics 9:1 2013 pp70-85 ER
Fumihiko Maki, “The Le Corbusier Syndrome: On the Development of Modern Architecture in Japan” In Nurturing Dreams: Collected Essays on Architecture and the City (Cambridge, MIT Press) ER.
If you have time, you might also want watch a lecture by architect Ito Toyo entitled “What was Metabolism?”
October 22 – Fall Break
October 24
Guy Debord. “Perspectives for Conscious Changes in Everyday Life.” Situationist International Online (1962).
Oswaldo de Andrade, “The Cannibalist Manifesto”
Elaine Carey, “Los Dueños de México: Power and Masculinity in ’68” in Gender and Sexuality in 1968. Ebook in Library (ER) Chapter 2, 59-83.
Supplementary Materials:
Guy Debord. “Report on the Construction of Situations and on the International Situationist Tendency’s Conditions of Organization and Action.” Situationist International Online (1957).
Recommended Film Screening:
Goke Body Snatched from Hell (Sato Hajime, 1968)
Axinn 232, 7 pm
October 28
First essay due
October 29
Alexandra Munroe, “Morphology of Revenge: The Yomiuri Indépendant Artists and Social Protest Tendencies in the 1960s” (in Munroe, Scream Against the Sky) pp. 149-163.
Alexandra Munroe, “A Box of Smile: Tokyo Fluxus, Conceptual Art, and the School of Metaphyscis” (in Munroe, Scream Against the Sky) pp. 215-225.
October 31
Patricia Mellencamp. “The Old and the New: Nam June Paik.” Art Journal 54, no. 4 (1995): 41-47.
Miriam Schapiro. “The Education of Women as Artists: Project Womanhouse.” Art Journal 31, no. 3 (1972): 268-270.
Kaira M. Cabanas. “Ana Mendieta: ‘Pain of Cuba, Body I Am‘.” Woman’s Art Journal 20, no. 1 (1999): 12-17.
Text to Skim:
Melinda M. Barlow. “Feminism 101: The New York Women’s Video Festival.” Camera Obscura 54, no. 3 (2003): 2-39.
Supplementary Reading:
Julia Bryan Wilson. “Remembering Yoko Ono’s ‘Cut Piece‘.” Oxford Art Journal 26, no. 1 (2003): 99-123.
