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ARCH 5110 Thesis Proseminar Syllabus - Fall 2010 Thursdays 4.00-6.00pm Instructor: Ben Gilmartin course Description Thesis will be the culmination of your individual research in a design project. You will narrowly define a question, develop a working knowledge of related research in your field of interest, and produce an architectural hypothesis.
ARCH 5110 Thesis Proseminar Syllabus - Fall 2010 Thursdays 4.00-6.00pm Instructor: Ben Gilmartin course Description Thesis will be the culmination of your individual research in a design project. You will narrowly define a question, develop a working knowledge of related research in your field of interest, and produce an architectural hypothesis.
ARCH 5110 Thesis Proseminar Syllabus - Fall 2010 Thursdays 4.00-6.00pm Instructor: Ben Gilmartin course Description Thesis will be the culmination of your individual research in a design project. You will narrowly define a question, develop a working knowledge of related research in your field of interest, and produce an architectural hypothesis.
Thursdays 4.00-6.00pm Instructor: Ben Gilmartin Course Description Thesis Proseminar will include seminars and directed independent research leading to complete development of the your Thesis program. The course will provide general instruction in the definition, programming, and development of a Thesis project. Research The Thesis will be the culmination of your individual research in a design project. You will prepare for your Thesis project by narrowly defining a question, developing a working knowledge of related research in your field of interest, and producing an architectural hypothesis. The collected work of the Proseminar and will provide the necessary material for your Thesis semesters design experimentation, testing, and critical appraisal of your hypothesis. Your Thesis argument will ultimately draw a relation between the specific resolution of an architectural proposition and a larger question within architectural discourse. The Proseminar will set the stage for your Thesis project. The course will begin with a series of seminar Frameworks and discussions instrumental in addressing issues of structured research and writing, uses / misuses of theory, precedents, site concept and context, and critical programming. Guest speakers will from time to time supplement development of special topics in design research and provide insight into the special nature of practice within the New York context. Individual meetings and work sessions will be scheduled throughout the term to review your independent topics and direct research. You will be encouraged to explore New York Citys extensive resources and treat the city as a laboratory for design experimentation and site analysis. Regular exercises in writing and documentary or speculative production will progressively refine the specific focus of your Thesis topic in relation to your personal interests and disciplinary dicourses of history, theory, and practice. Course Requirements You will be required attend all classes and participate in discussion weekly, complete regular written and project exercises, make presentations of your individual research, and submit a final formatted Thesis Dossier publication. Throughout the term, you will collect and edit your research, writings, and process materials. At the end of the course, you will submit your Thesis Dossier incorporating written and graphic material summarizing your research, presenting a concise statement of the Thesis question, identifying your project site, and stating the program. You will complete the Proseminar with a clearly defined project proposition and an organized collection of all materials required for the first design meeting with your Thesis advisor.
Assignments
1 Statement of Intentions: Site, Precedent, Program, Typological / Methodological Interests 2 Frameworks 1-5: Five Writing and Photography Assignments 3 Engagements: Site Forensics Site Documentation / Analysis Presentation 4 Engagements: Field Studies Precedents Research Presentation 5 Engagements: Program Projections Presentation 6 Hypothesis: Thesis Proposal 7 Thesis Poster 8 Projective Diagramming Thesis Speculations 9 Thesis Dossier
Outline Schedule
1 September 3 / What is a Thesis? Due: Statement of Intentions: Site, Precedent, Program, Typological/Methodological Interests Assignment: Framework 1 Assignment and Readings - due 2/4
2 September 9 / Framework 1: The Urban Site Due: Transgressing the Urban Site, Photography and Writing Assignment Readings: Koolhaas, Debord, Wigley, Lerup, Sola-Morales Rubio, Levesque
3 September 16 / Framework 2: Landscape Urbanism and Ecology Due: Landscape Urbanism and Ecology Projections, Photography and Writing Assignment Readings: Mostafavi, Guattari, Corner, Wall
4 September 23 / Framework 3: Programming Due: Programming Projections, Photography and Writing Assignment Readings: Koolhaas, Tschumi, Wood / Andraos
5 September 30 / Framework 4: Structure and Surface Due: Structure and Surface Projections, Photography and Writing Assignment Readings: Balmond, Howeler, Moussavi, Kipnis
6 October 7 / Framework 5: Ephemerality: Effects, Atmospheres, Phenomena Due: Ephemeral Projections, Photography and Writing Assignment Lecture: Diller Scofidio +Renfro Technology and Materials Research Readings: Somol and Whiting, Yoon, Lavin, Schafer
7 October 14 / Engagement: Independent Research and Review Due: Site Forensics - Writings and Drawings on the Urban Site Presentation
8 October 21 / Engagement: Independent Research Review Due: Field Studies - Precedents Research Presentation
9 October 28 / Engagement: Independent Research Review Due: Program Projections - Writing and Diagramming on Program Presentation
10 November 4 / Engagement: Independent Research Review Due: Hypothesis: Thesis Proposal
11 November 11 / Research Presentations Due: Thesis Poster (Ithaca Submission Date to be Confirmed)
12 November 18 / Research Presentations Due: Projective Diagramming Thesis Speculations Presentation
13 November 25 THANKGIVING BREAK
14 December 2 / Research Presentations Due: Projective Diagramming Thesis Speculations Presentation Thesis Dossier In-Class Review (Final Submission December 16)
Individual meetings will be held during class times from December 9 to December 16.
Course Readings
Framework 1: The Urban Site
Rem Koolhaas, Introduction, The Frontier in the Sky (Excerpt), Delirious New York (New York, Monacelli Press, Reprint Dec.1994). Guy Debord, Theory of the Derive, Situationist International Anthology, Ken Knabb Editor and Translator (Berkeley: Bureau of Public Secrets, 1981). Mark Wigley, Lost In Space, The Critical Landscape, Michael Speaks Editor (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1996). Lars Lerup, Stim and Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis, Assemblage #25 (The MIT Press, 1994). Ignasi de Sola-Morales Rubio, Terrain Vague, Anyplace, Cynthia C. Davidson Editor (New York: The Anyone Corporation, 1995). Luc Levesque, Terrain Vague as Material, Paysages (Montreal: Newsletter of the Association des architects paysagistes du Quebec, 2001).
Framework 2: Landscape Urbanism and Ecology
Felix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (Excerpt), The Three Ecologies (London: Athlone Press, 2000) Mohsen Mostafavi, Landscapes of Urbanism; Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Machinic Landscape, Mohsen Mostafavi and Ciro Najle Editors (London: AA Publications, 2003). J ames Corner, Terra Fluxus, The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Charles Waldheim Editor (Princeton Architectural Press, 2005). Alex Wall, Programming the Urban Surface, Recovering Landscape: Essays on Contemporary Landscape Architecture, J ames Corner Editor (Princeton Architectural Press, 1999).
Framework 3: Programming
Rem Koolhaas, Definitive Instability: The Downtown Athletic Club, Delirious New York (New York, Monacelli Press, Reprint 1994). Rem Koolhaas, Congestion Without Matter: Parc de la Villette, S,M,L,XL (New York, Monacelli, 1995). Bernard Tschumi, Architecture and Limits, Spaces and Events, Architecture and Disjunction (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996). Dan Wood and Amale Andraos, Program Primer v1.0: A Manual for Architects, Praxis 8: Re:programming, Ashley Schafer and Amanda Reeser Lawrence Editors (Praxis, 2006).
Framework 4: Structure and Surface
Cecil Balmond, Informal and Arnhem, Informal (Munich: Prestel Verlag, 2002). Eric Howeler, Optimized Envelopes: Seattle Public Librarys Structural Skin, Praxis 6: New Technologies://New Architectures (Praxis, 2004). Farshid Moussavi, The Function of Ornament, The Function of Ornament, F Moussavi and M Kubo Editors (Barcelona: Actar, 2006). J eff Kipnis, The Cunning of Cosmetics, El Croquis 84 (1997).
R.E. Somol and Sarah Whiting, Notes Around the Doppler Effect and other Moods of Modernism, Perspecta 33 (2002). Sylvia Lavin, "What Color is it Now? Perspecta 35 (2004). Meijin Yoon, Programming Scenarios: R&Sie, Praxis 8: Re:programming (Praxis, 2006) Ashley Schafer, Designing Inefficiencies, Scanning : The Aberrant Architectures of Diller + Scofidio, Aaron Betsky Editor (New York : Whitney Museum of American Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003), 92-102.