Spring 2016 - Architecture Department

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UTOPIA AND COUNTER-UTOPIA
Barnard + Columbia Colleges Architecture Department !
ARCH V3901 Spring 2016!
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SYLLABUS VERSION 2.0
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Tues. 2:10 - 4:00
Location: 501 Diana, Barnard
Ralph Ghoche, rghoche@barnard.edu
Office Hours: Wednesdays 1:10-3pm, 500K Diana
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“A map of the world that does not include utopia is not worth
even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which
humanity is always landing.” Oscar Wilde
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course examines the rich tradition of utopian thinking in architecture, urban planning and the visual
arts. Here, utopia is explored in its modern form: as a call to transform the world through human planning
and ingenuity. The purpose of the course is to better understand the role that the utopian imagination has
played in the construction of social practices, the development of urban and social planning models, and
technologies of power.
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LECTURE SUMMARY
1. INTRODUCTION
PART 1: UTOPIA
2. ENTER UTOPIA
3. INDUSTRIAL CITIES
4. THE GARDEN IN THE CITY
5. SPEED CITIES
6. THE TOWER IN THE PARK
7. COUNTER-CULTURE AND TRANSIENT CITIES
8. CYBERNETIC AND NETWORKED CITIES
9. Spring Break
PART II: COUNTER-UTOPIA
10. NO-EXIT CITIES
11. AFTER UTOPIA: POST-FUNCTIONAL AND NON-PLANNED CITIES
12. UTOPIA’S RETURN
13. Student Presentations
14. Student Presentations
15. Student Presentations
COURSE REQUIREMENTS!
Attendance: Attendance to all course meetings is mandatory. An attendance sheet will be distributed at
each meeting. More than two unexcused absences will lead to a reduction of one letter grade. More than
four unexcused absences will lead to an automatic failure in the course. If you have a good reason for
missing class, please inform the professor by email beforehand.
Readings: There will be approximately 60-80 pages of reading a week. The readings will be posted
online. All readings must be completed the night before the relevant seminar.
Writing Center: I strongly recommend that students with even minor difficulties with writing set up an
appointment with the Barnard Writing Center before handing in assignments. http://writing.barnard.edu
Course Assessment and Grading:
Participation and Attendance ............................................................................................................ = 10%
Weekly Reading Responses ............................................................................................................. = 10%
Weekly Presentations ........................................................................................................................ = 20%
Term Paper Presentation ................................................................................................................... = 20%
Term Paper Midterm Submission (750 words) ................................................................................... = 15%
• Deadline: Thursday March 10: Emailed as MS Word document.
Term Paper Final Submission (2000 words)....................................................................................... = 25% • Deadline: Monday May 9th. Emailed as PDF document with images and image captions.
Discussion Participation
Students are expected to attend all Tuesday seminars, to do all seminar readings, to wisely and
consistently contribute to the weekly seminar discussions. Participation during seminars is mandatory.
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Weekly Reading Responses
Weekly Reading Responses are due Monday nights at midnight. I will set up online discussion boards for
each week on courseworks. You will be able to see your classmates’ responses only once you have
added your own response to the forum. Once you have added your response, I recommend that you read
some of the other responses on the forum.
For each week of the course, you are asked to:
• write a 200-300 word response (no less, no more) to issues and polemics encountered in the
readings for that week. In responding to the readings, you will need to briefly summarize the
arguments that you feel are central to the week’s theme.
• End your response with one question. The question should not seek a factual answer (how
much..., when did.... etc.) but should address what you see as the main points of debate in the
readings.
The purpose of weekly responses is:
• to demonstrate that you’ve read the assigned readings for the week. • To show that, beyond simply reading the texts, you’ve thought about the central arguments and
themes, that you’ve been able to draw connections between that week's various readings (and
possibly, the readings from previous weeks), and finally, that you’ve been able to scale-up your
thinking and consider some of the larger social / political / personal … stakes involved. Your responses don’t need to discuss all of the week’s readings, although they should address most of
them. The responses will be graded on a total of 2 points. In order to get a full 2 points, your response
needs to demonstrate that you’ve read the readings and been able to focus on the main issues and
arguments they present. For summaries that are poorly written, incomplete or do not demonstrate an
adequate grasp of the material, students will get an R for the first couple of weeks, meaning that they’ll
need to resubmit the response within a week’s time. Late responses cannot be accepted.
Weekly Reading Presentations
Each of you will be required to present once during seminar over the term. Depending on class size, there
may be two presenters per seminar. Presenters for a given week will have to meet together and divide up
the reading material in an equal and coherent way. You and your co-presenters will prepare a common
powerpoint presentation that will integrate all material that might help foster a better class discussion and
better dramatize the theories and ideas presented. Presentations shall include a visual slideshow which
should include as many of the buildings, urban schemes or visual projects listed on the syllabus for the
given week as possible. These projects should be used to illustrate the main themes and questions
addressed in the readings. Furthermore, each presenter should choose one building, urban scheme or
visual project and present that project more fully. For this project, you should provide comprehensive
visual material (sketches, plans, maps, elevations etc...). Presentations should last a total of 20-25
minutes (for all presenters).
Presentations will be graded qualitatively according to this set of criteria:
• Clarity of thought: how well you can describe some of the more difficult and nuanced ideas and
arguments in the readings. It is absolutely essential to gain a good grasp of the main themes
elaborated in the readings. You’ll probably need to read some essays twice and do additional
research in order to get a proper handle on the material. Please take a look at the list of
additional readings at the end of the syllabus. You may want to read some of them before your
presentation.
• Visual presentation: Your presentation needs to be organized in a coherent way. You’ll be
marked on how well you can connect the ideas elaborated in the readings with the projects you
choose to present.
• Originality and Unity of Thought: Your presentation should not follow the pace and narrative of
the readings too strictly. In other words, you should identify the main themes and arguments
(thesis) of each reading and state them at the onset of your presentation rather than tediously
going through every element of the author’s argument. A great presentation will have clearly
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stated the main themes, arguments and will have identified the stakes of such arguments (Why
is this important? What is the context? How does this argument/idea differ from other possible
interpretations?).
Term Paper and Term Paper Presentations
Each student will prepare an 8 page term paper (approx. 2000 words) based on one utopian scheme of
the student’s choice. The goal of the paper is to connect the utopian scheme to the real-world context out
of which they emerged. What real-world social problem, concern or malaise does your chosen utopian
scheme seeks to address or react to? What cultural/social/political tensions does it seek to resolve or
reconcile?
You must use footnotes following the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition.
You must all set up an individual appointment with me to discuss your paper topic ideas before Feb 25.
Some common writing problems to avoid:
1. Use of Quotations: The most common issue has to do with the use of quotations. Students often use
quotations in order to avoid explaining a point or making an argument themselves. They often will insert a
quotation directly into a paragraph without context and without mentioning the source. Many students will
use quotations that are two to three sentences long without any analysis. As a general rule, quotations
should be used sparingly and need to be explained and discussed by the student. It is often preferable to
paraphrase a quotation in the student’s own words and add a footnote citing the source.
2. Thesis Statement: All final papers must have a clearly articulated thesis statement (1-2 sentences
long). Your thesis statement should focus on the larger stakes (why is this important? How does it add to
or dispel some of our assumptions about subject X) and connect it to an existing discourse (this can be a
discourse that we’ve examined in class or not…). A strong thesis statement will help structure your essay
and give the reader a better sense of the purpose of each paragraph in the overall argument. 3. Run-On Sentences: Often, students will try and cram too many ideas into one sentence. This tends to
lead to grammatical problems. Good writing often alternates between a short, declarative sentence, and
longer descriptive sentences. GRADING SCALE
97.5 - 10 = A+
92.5 - 97.4 = A
90.0 - 92.4 = A-
87.5 - 89.9 = B+
82.5 - 87.4 = B
80 - 82.4 = B-
77.5 - 79.9 = C+
72.5 - 77.4 = C
70 - 72.4 = C-
67.5 - 69.9 = D+
62.5 - 67.4 = D
60 - 62.4 = D-
Below 60 = F
LEARNING OBJECTIVES!
Upon successful completion of this reading and writing intensive course, the student will be able to:
1. Develop a critical understanding and awareness of some of the decisive ideas, theories and debates
relating to utopian discourse over the past two centuries.
2. Understand the role that territorial and urban organization play in the construction of social practices,
human subjectivities and political awareness.
3. Understand the way that discourses traditionally seen as external to the discipline of architecture
inform and elucidate its practice and production.
4. Demonstrate the ability to read texts critically and to relate issues encountered in these texts to
contemporary architectural discourse and practice.
5. Develop research, writing, and critical thinking skills through the research and writing of a series of
reading summaries and a term paper that use textual and visual evidence to state a meaningful thesis.
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CLASS SCHEDULE
WEEK 1
Tues. 01/19
INTRODUCTION
WEEK 2
Tues. 01/26
ENTER UTOPIA
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Thomas More, “Utopia” (1516), in The Utopia Reader, Gregory Claeys and Lyman
Tower Sargent, eds. (NY: New York University Press, 1999), 77-93.
Antoine Picon, “Learning from Utopia: Contemporary Architecture and the Quest for
Political and Social Relevance,” JAE 67, no. 1 (March 2013), 17-23.
additional readings:
Anthony Vidler, "Cities of Tomorrow," Artforum International (Sep 2012).
• Rowe, Colin. “The Architecture of Utopia,” in The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and
Other Essays (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1976): 205-217.
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WEEK 3
INDUSTRIAL CITIES
Tues. 02/02
[ J.-N. Ledoux, Saline de Chaux, Robert Owen, New Lanark; Charles Fourier, The Phalanstery,
J.-B. Godin, Familistère at Guise, Jules Verne, City of Steel; Port Sunlight; F. L. Wright, Johnson
Wax Headquarters; Work and Concentration Camps; Cedric Price, Potteries Thinkbelt; K.
Kurokawa, Floating Factory; P. Soleri, Novanoah II; J. Stirling, Siemens AG project ]
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Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, excerpt on Bourgeois and Proletarians in "The
Communist Manifesto," in The Marx-Engels Reader, Ed. Robert c. Tucker (New York,
1972), pp.469-483.
Anthony Vidler, "The Scenes of the Street: Transformations in Ideal and Reality 17501871," in On Streets, ed. S. Anderson (MIT Press, 1986), 46-76.
additional readings:
• Anthony Vidler, "The Theatre of Production: Claude Nicolas Ledoux and the
Architecture of Social Reform," AA Files 1, no. 1 (Autumn 1981), pp. 54-63.
• Evans, Robin. “Regulation and Production”, Lotus 12 (1976): 6-16.
• Wiebenson, Dora. Tony Garnier: The Cité Industrielle (New York: George Braziller,
1968), excerpts.
• Charles Fourier, “The Phalanstery” (1848) and “The Harmony of the Four
Movements” (1846), in Jonathan Beecher and Richard Bienvenu, eds., The Utopian
Vision of Charles Fourier (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971), 240-245, 399- 402.
• Vidler, Anthony. “The New Industrial World: the Reconstruction of Urban Utopia in Late
19th Century France,” Perspecta 13/14 (1971): 242-256.
• Schorske, Carl E. “The Idea of the City in European Thought: Voltaire to Spengler”, in
Thinking with History: Explorations in the Passage to Modernism (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1998): 37-55.
• Harvey, David. “Fordism,” in The Condition of Postmodernity (Oxford UK: Blackwell,
1989): 125-172.
• Ralph Ghoche, “Zola’s Volatile Utopia,” in “Utopia c. 2016,” Journal of Architectural
Education 67, no. 1 (Spring 2013), 32-38.
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WEEK 4
THE GARDEN IN THE CITY
Tues. 02/09
[ Ebenezer Howard, Garden City; F. L. Wright, Broadacre City; Le Corbusier, Radiant Farm;
Ludwig Hilberseimer, The City in the Landscape; W. Katavalos, The Chemical Marine City; Kisho
Kurokawa, Agricultural City; J.L.R. Chanéac, The Crater Cities; New Alchemy Institute,
Massachusetts and Prince Edward Island ARK; SITE, Highrise of Homes; G. Günschel, The
Settlement of Teerhof on Weser Island, Bremen; P. Hammond, U. Schippke and the US dept. of
Agriculture, The Atomic Agrarian City; A. Branzi, et. al., Agronica; Andrea Branzi, et. al.,
Masterplan Strijp Philips; MVRDV, Pig City; Vertical Farms ]
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Ebenezer Howard, The City of To-morrow (1898), (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1965),
author’s introduction.
Wright, Frank Lloyd. “Broadacre City: A New Community Plan” (1935), in Leland M.
Roth, ed., America Builds: Source Documents in American Architecture and Planning
(New York: Harper & Row, 1983): 483-488.
Meredith Tenhoor, “The Architect’s Farm,” in Above the Pavement- The Farm! (New
York: Princeton Architectural Press).
additional readings
Wright, Frank Lloyd. The Living City (New York: Horizon Press, 1958): 116-140.
Cranshawe, Roger. “Frank Lloyd Wright’s Progressive Utopia,” Architectural
Association Quarterly 1 (1978): 3-9.
Ciucci, Giorgio. “The City in Agrarian Ideology and Frank Lloyd Wright: Origins and
Development of Broadacres”, in Giorgio Ciucci et al., eds., The American City: from
the Civil War to the New Deal (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1979): 293-388.
Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston (Toronto;
New York: Bantam Books, 1975).
Charles Waldheim, "Notes Toward a History of Agrarian Urbanism," in Bracket I: On
Farming ed. Mason White and Maya Przybylski (Actar, 2010).
Frampton, Kenneth. “The Usonian Legacy”, in Labor, Work and Architecture: Collected
Essays on Architecture and Design (London: Phaidon, 2002): 226-233.
Pinder, David. “Restorative Utopias,” in Visions of the City (London: Routledge, 2005):
29-56.
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WEEK 5
SPEED CITIES
Tues. 02/16
[Haussmann’s Paris; Soria y Mata, Cuidad Lineal; Edgar Chambless, Roadtown; Sant’ Elia, Città
Nuova; N.A. Milyutin, Magnitogorsk; Leonidov and OSA Team, Competition for Magnitogorsk;
F.T. Marinetti, Angiolo Mazzoni, Mino Somenzi, Aero-Architecture Linear City Project; R. Neutra,
Rush City Reformed; Le Corbusier, Plan Obus and Plans for South America; N. B. Geddes,
Futurama; G.A. Jellicoe, Motopia; P. Eisenman and M. Graves, Jersey Corridor Project; A.
Boutwell and M. Mitchell, Continuous City for 1.000.000 Human Beings; Paul Rudolph, Lower
Manhattan Expressway; Diller and Scofidio, Slow House ]
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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, “The New Religion-Morality of Speed,” (1916) in Speed
Limits (Montreal: CCA, 2009), 254-259.
Norman Bel Geddes, Ch. 1 “Towards Design,” and Ch. 2 “Speed To-morrow,” in
Horizons (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1932), 1-43. (Online)
Aldous Huxley. “Brave New World” (1932), in Gregory Claeys and Lyman Tower
Sargent, eds., The Utopia Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1999,
347-363.
additional readings
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, “Railway Space and Railway Time,” in The Railway Journey:
The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1986), 33-44.
Paul Virilio, “The Overexposed City,” in Lost Dimension, trans. Daniel Moshenberg.
New York: Semiotext(e), 1991, 9–27.
Christina Cogdell, “Products or Bodies? Streamline Design and Eugenics as Applied
Biology,” Design Issues, vol. 19, no. 1 (Winter 2003), 36-53.
Owen Gutfreund, “Rebuilding New York in the Auto Age,” in Robert Moses and the
Modern City: The Transformation of New York, ed. Hilary Ballon and Kenneth Jackson.
New York: Norton, 2007, 86-93.
Molly Wright Steenson, “Interfacing with the Subterranean: Paris’s Pneumatic Post”
Cabinet 41 (Spring 2011), 82-86.
Rouvillois, Frédéric. “Utopia and Totalitarianism”, in Roland Schaer et. al., eds. Utopia:
The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World (New York and Oxford: The New
York Public Library/Oxford University Press, 2000): 316-332.
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WEEK 6
THE TOWER IN THE PARK
Tues. 02/23
[ Fritz Lang, Metropolis; L. Hilberseimer, High Rise City; M.v.d. Rohe, Skyscraper for
Friedrichstrasse; Kazimir Malevich, The Suprematist City; Le Corbusier, Ville Contemporaine,
Plan Voisin and Ville Radieuse, Lucio Costa and Oscar Niemeyer, Brasilia; Mario Pani, Cuidad
Tlatelolco Housing Project, Mexico City; Emile Aillaud, Housing Complex, Pantin-les-Courtillieres,
France; Candilis, Josic and Woods, Toulouse le Mirail; Minoru Yamasaki, Pruitt-Igoe, St-Louis
Wallace Harrison, Empire State Plaza; Louis Kahn, Philadelphia Plan; Friedrich St.Florian, Vertical
City; R.B. Fuller and S. Sadao, Cylinder towers of Slum redevelopment in Harlem; R.B. Fuller,
Triton City for San Francisco ]
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Le Corbusier, Panels of The Radiant City.
Congrès Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne. “Charter of Athens: Tenets” (1933), in
Ulrich Conrads, ed., Programs and Manifestoes on 20th-century Architecture
(Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1970): 137-145.
Candilis, Georges, Alexis Josic, and Shadrach Woods. “Recent Thoughts in Town
Planning and Urban Design,” Architects’ Year Book XI (1965): 183-196. Special issue
on “The Pedestrian in the City”.
James Holston, "The Modernist City and the Death of the Street," in Theorizing the citythe new urban anthropology reader. S.M. Low ed. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 245-276.
additional readings
Ludwig Hilberseimer, “High-Rises,” in Metropolis-Architecture (New York: Columbia U.
2012), 201-217.
Pier Vottorio Aureli, “In Hilberseimer’s Footsteps,” in Metropolis-Architecture (New
York: Columbia U. 2012), 333-364.
Rem Koolhaas, "La Ville Radieuse," in In the Footsteps of Le Corbusier.
Le Corbusier, The City of Tomorrow and its Planning (New York: Dover, 1987). 163-302
(at least half of which are images).
FILM: Chad Freidrichs, The Pruitt-Igoe Myth (2011)
FILM: Jean-Luc Godard, Two or Three Things I know about Her (1967).
Mary McLeod, "Architecture or Revolution": Taylorism, Technocracy, and Social
Change,” Art Journal 43, no. 2 (Summer, 1983), pp. 132-147.
Martino Stierli, “Building No Place: Oscar Niemeyer and the Utopias of Brasilia,” JAE
67, no. 1 (March 2013), 8-17.
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WEEK 7
COUNTER-CULTURE AND TRANSIENT CITIES
Tues. 03/01
[ Bruno Taut, Alpine Architecture and The City Crown; Situationists, The Naked City; Constant,
New Babylon; Cedric Price, Fun Palace; Archigram, Plug-In City and Instant City; Paul Virilio and
Claude Parent, Oblique Architecture; Haus Rucker Co., Pneumacosm in the City, Superstudio,
Holiday Machine; Lebbeus. Woods, The New City; Jean Prouvé, Nomadic Structures; F. Otto,
Suspended City and Pneumatic Lunar Station; P. Maymont, Suspended City of Paris; Kisho
Kurokawa, Nakagin Capsule Hotel, W. Döring, The City of PVC cells; Reyner Banham and
François Dallegret, Environment-Bubble; M. Safdie, Habitat ’67 and Habitat Puerto Rico; Ron
Herron, Walking City, J.-P Jungmann, Dyodon; L. Woods, Quake City; Vincent Callebaut, floating
islands ]
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John Beck, "Buckminster Fuller and the Politics of Shelter," in Non-Plan: Essays on
Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (Oxford:
Architectural Press, 2000), 116-125.
Guy Debord, “Theory of the Derive,” (1956) Internationale Situationniste 2 (December
1958).
Peter Cook and Warren Chalk, Editorial from Archigram 3, 1963.
Manfredo Tafuri and Francesco Dal Co, “The International Concept of Utopia,” in
Modern Architecture, 383-390.
additional readings
Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, “Fun Palace,” The Drama Review 12, no. 3 (Spring,
1968),127-134.
Niewenhuys, Constant. “New Babylon” (1960), in Ulrich Conrads, ed., Programs and
Manifestoes on 20th-century Architecture (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press, 1971):
177-178.
Libero Andreotti, “Play-Tactics of the "Internationale Situationniste," October 91 (Winter,
2000), 36-58.
Mike Davis and Daniel Bertrand Monk, “Floating Utopias: Freedom and Unfreedom of
the Seas,” in Evil Paradises: Dreamworlds of Neoliberalism
Simon Sadler, “Formulary for a New Urbanism: Rethinking the City,” in The Situationist
City (Cambridge, MA; London, England: MIT Press, 1999), 69-103.
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WEEK 8
CYBERNETIC AND NETWORKED CITIES
Tues. 03/08
[ Louis Kahn, Philadelphia Plan; Candilis, Josic, Woods, Toulouse le Mirail, Bochum University,
Frankfurt Competition; H. Kobayashi, The Submarine City; T. Zenetos, Electronic Urbanism;
Archigram, Computer City; N. Schöffer, The Cybernetic City; Christopher Alexander, Houses
Generated by Patterns, Stelarc; Nigel Coates and D. Branson, Ecstacity; MVRDV, Meta-City,
Data-Town; Greg Lynn, New City; Reiser and Umemoto, West Side NYC Competition, C. Ratti,
SENSEable City Laboratory; K. Matsuda, Augmented City; The Sims ]
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Christopher Alexander, "The City is Not a Tree," Part 1, Architectural Forum 122, no. 1
(April 1965): 58-62; and Part 2, Architectural Forum 122, no. 2 (May 1965): 58-61.
Mark Wigley, “The Architectural Brain,” in Network Practices: New Strategies in
Architecture and Design (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2007), 30-53.
William J. Mitchell, “Boundaries / Networks,” in Me++: The Cyborg Self and the
Networked City (Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2003), 7-18.
additional readings
Anthony Vidler, “Homes for Cyborgs; Domestic Prosthesis from Salvador Dali to Diller
and Scofidio,” Ottagono, No.96 (1990), pp. 37–55.
Cedric Price, Joan Littlewood, “Fun Palace,” The Drama Review 12, no. 3 (Spring,
1968),127-134.
Antoine Picon, "Towards a City of Events: Digital Media and Urbanity", in New
Geographies, n° 0, 2008, pp. 32-43.
Matthew Gandy, "Cyborg Urbanization: Complexity and Monstrosity in the
Contemporary City," International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 29, n° 1,
2005.
Thurs. 03/10
DUE: Term Paper Midterm Submission (750 words): Emailed as MS Word document.
WEEK 9
Spring Break
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WEEK 10
NO-EXIT CITIES
[ J.ean-Paul. Sartre, No-Exit; Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon; George Orwell, 1984; R.B. Fuller,
Dome over Manhattan; Superstudio, Continuous Monument; Archizoom, No-Stop City; Rem
Koolhaas et al., Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture; OMA, CCTV ]
Tues. 03/22
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Superstudio, “Twelve Cautionary Tales for Christmas: Premonitions of the Mystical
Rebirth of Urbanism,” Architectural Design 42 (Dec. 1971), 737- 742.
Rem Koolhaas et al., Panels of: Exodus, or Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture (1972).
Pier Vittorio Aureli, "Manfredo Tafuri, Archizoom, Superstudio, and the Critique of
Architectural Ideology," in Architecture and Capitalism 1845 to the Present (Routledge,
2014), 132-146.
additional readings
Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” October 59, 1992, pp. 3–8.
Marie Theres Stauffer, "Utopian Reflections, Reflected Utopia- Urban Designs by
Archizoom and Superstudio," AA Files 47 (Summer 2002).
Kazys Varnelis, “Programming After Program: Archzoom’s No-Stop City,” in Praxis 8
(June 2006), 82-91.
Michel Foucault, “Panopticism,” in Discipline and Punish, trans. Alan Sheridan
(London: Penguin, 1977), 195–228.
WEEK 11
AFTER UTOPIA: POST-FUNCTIONAL AND NON-PLANNED CITIES
Tues. 03/29
[ Reyner Banham et al., Non-Plan; Disneyland, Anaheim CA; EPCOT, Disneyworld, Orlando FL;
Seaside, Florida; Leon Krier, Reconstruction of Stuttgart; Leon Krier, Poundsbury, UK; The
Truman Show ]
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Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, “A Significance for A&P
Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas,” (1968).
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Vintage, 1961), excerpt.
David Harvey, "The Figure of the City," in Spaces of Hope (University of California
Press, 2000).
Louis Marin, “Disneyland, a Degenerate Utopia,” Glyph 1 (1977).
additional readings
Rem Koolhaas, “‘Life in the Metropolis’ and ‘The Culture of Congestion,” in
Architectural Design 47, no. 5 (August 1977), reprinted in Architecture Theory since
1968, ed. M. Hays, 320-332.
Simon Sadler, "Open Ends: The Social Visions of 1960s Non-Planning," in Non-Plan:
Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism
(Oxford Architectural Press, 2000), 138-154.
Rowe, Colin and Fred Koetter. “Utopia: Decline and Fall?”, in Collage City (MIT Press,
1978).
Congress for the New Urbanism. “Charter of the New Urbanism” (1996).
Sorkin, Michael. “See You in Disneyland”, in Variations on a Theme Park (Noonday
Press, 1992): 204-232.
Frederic Jameson, “Architecture and the Critique of Ideology,” in Architecture,
Criticism, Ideology, Joan Ockman, ed. (Princeton Architectural Press, 1985), 51-87.
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WEEK 12
UTOPIA’S RETURN
[ Contemporary Projects at a utopian scale ... ]
Tues. 04/05
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David Pinder, “In Defense of Utopian Urbanism: Imagining Cities after the ‘End of
Utopia,’” Geogr. Ann., 84 B (3–4) (2002), 229–241.
Reinhold Martin, “Critical of What?” Harvard Design Magazine 21
additional readings
David Harvey, "On the Utopianism of Social Process," in Spaces of Hope (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2000).
Harvey, David. “From Fordism to Flexible Accumulation”, in The Condition of
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Tues. 04/19
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WEEK 15
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Roland Schaer, Gregory Claeys, eds., Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World
(New York Public Library, Oxford University Press, 2000).
• Ruth Eaton, Ideal Cities: Utopianism and the (Un)Built Environment (Thames & Hudson, 2002).
• Terence Riley, ed., The Changing of the Avant-Garde: Visionary Architectural Drawings from the
Howard Gilman Collection (Museum of Modern Art, 2002).
• Caroline Klein, ed., Futuristic: Visions of Future Living (Daab, 2011).
• Robert Klanten, Lukas Feireiss, eds., Utopia Forever: Visions of Architecture and Urbanism (Gestalten,
2011).
• Gunther Feuerstein, Urban Fiction: Strolling Through Ideal Cities from Antiquity to the Present Day
(Edition Axel Menges, 2008).
• Robert Fishman, Urban Utopias in the Twentieth Century (The MIT Press, 1982).
• Leonardo Benevolo, The Origins of Modern Town Planning (The MIT Press, 1971).
• Daedalus (Spring 1965); special issue on Utopia.
• Fredric Jameson, Archaeologies of the Future: the Desire Called Utopia and other Science Fictions
(Verso, 2005).
• Krishan Kumar, Utopia and Anti-utopia in Modern Times (Basil Blackwell, 1987).
• Reinhold Martin, Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again (University of Minnesota
Press, 2010).
• Malcolm Miles, Urban Utopias: the Built and Social Architectures of Alternative Settlements (Routledge,
2008).
• David Pinder, Visions of the City: Utopianism, Power and Politics in Twentieth-Century Urbanism
(Routledge, 2005).
• Manfredo Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia: Design and Capitalist Development (MIT Press, 1976).
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