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1 Arch V3114: Making the Metropolis: Designing and Planning the City since 1850 Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Architecture Professor: Noah Chasin 304 Barnard Hall, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11:40a 12:55p Discussion Sections TBD COURSE DESCRIPTION: Making the Metropolis is an introduction to the theoretical, critical, and formal vocabularies of modern and contemporary urbanism throughout Europe, the U.S., and beyond. The class is arranged thematically and, in a larger context, chronologically. The rise of new urban ideologies and typologies as a result of rapidly proliferating technological and industrial advances will be seen as the backdrop against which various urban design strategies were deployed. From mid- 19 th century strategies [ ] of interwar functionalism, from megastructures to semiotic models, from New Urbanism to X- Urbanism, we will measure the merits of various paradigms (and their critiques) against one another in an effort to understand the processes that provide the structures and infrastructures for built environments. Of particular concern will be, on the one hand, the paradoxical nature of designing for an unknown future population, and on the other, the role of self- organization as an increasing viable source for urban morphology. REQUIREMENTS: 1. Attendance at all lectures is mandatory. 2. Completion of readings from course reader. While the class is designed as a lecture course, the actual experience will be interactive, and it will be assumed that all students are familiar with each week s subject through the assigned readings. 3. Participation in digital discussions either on the course website [ or via twitter feed [TBD]. Each week s lectures will be accompanied by a parallel discussion of the week s readings, conducted by the course TAs. All students will be expected to contribute to discussions. 4. Completion of the written research assignment, which will be comprised of three stages throughout the semester. The details of this assignment, printed below, will be discussed in class. 5. All readings in bold are required for class discussions & lectures, and will be found on Courseworks. ASSIGNMENTS: Two take- home exams (1000 words ea.) based on course readings [details forthcoming] Final Exam [essay questions, done in class] Deadlines: [TBD] MEETING DATES AND SUBJECTS: 3 September Introduction to course, discussion of texts, objectives, and assignments 5 September NO CLASS: ROSH HASHANAH September The Rational City KEY C. Garnier, Paris Opéra [1861] Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Fall of 6

2 E.- E. Viollet- le- Duc, Project for a Covered Market [1872] B. Haussmann, Plan for Paris [1850s] a. Benjamin, Walter, Paris: Capital of the Nineteenth Century, in Reflections, trans. E. Jephcott (NY: Schocken Books, 1986), pp b. Engels, Friedrich, The Great Towns from The Condition of the Working Class in England [1845] in The City Reader, ed. Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout (London: Routledge, 1996). c. A. Picon, Anxious Landscapes: From Ruin to Rust September American Pastoralism F. L. Olmsted & C. Vaux, Central Park & Prospect Park [1863] A. J. Davis, Llewellyn Park [1853] A. J. Downing, Plans for Cottages [1842] D. Schuyler, A Gospel of Taste F. L. Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmstead Advocates Parks September The Industrialization of the City a. Georg Simmel, "Metropolis and Mental Life," b. Congrès Internationaux d'architecture Moderne (CIAM), "La Sarraz Declaration," c. Ernst May, "Flats for Subsistence Living," CIAM 1, d. Richard Pommer, "'More a Necropolis than a Metropolis:' Ludwig Hilberseimer's High Rise City andmodern City Planning," in Pommer, et al, eds., In the Shadow of Mies (1988) October Radiant Cities E. Howard, Garden City Le Corbusier, Ville Contemporaine & Ville Radieuse Hilberseimer, Skyscraper City FLW, Broadacre City T. Garnier, Cité Industrielle [1917] a. CIAM, Athens Charter, in Ulrich Conrads, ed., trans. Michael Bullock, Programs and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1971), pp b. Anthony Vidler, Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000), part I. c. Stanislaus von Moos, Urbanism and Transcultural Exchanges, : A Survey, and Norma Evenson, Yesterday s City of Tomorrow Today, in H. Allen Brooks, ed. Le Corbusier: The Garland Essays (NY & London: Garland Publishing, 1987), pp October Suburbia and Decentralization Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Fall of 6

3 Levittown, NY Radburn, NJ Lafayette Park, Detroit, MI a. Dolores Hayden, Building Suburbia: Green Fields and Urban Growth [NY: Vintage, 2004], pp , b. Robert Bruegmann, Sprawl: A Compact History (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp c. Herbert J. Gans, An Anatomy of Suburbia, in John Kramer, ed., North American Suburbs: Politics, Diversity and Change, (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 1972), pp d. Robert Fishman, Bourgeois Utopias: The Rise and Fall of Suburbia (New York: Basic Books, 1987): pp e. Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the Unites States (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1985). f. Nathan Glazer, Why City Planning is Obsolete, Architectural Forum 109 (July 1958): October The New Humanism, Team 10, and the Lineage of Participatory Urbanism F. Gibberd, Harlow New Town Wiener and Sert, Chimbote, Peru; Cidade dos Motores, Bogotà L. Quaroni, et al. INA- Casa/Tiburtino L. Kahn, Jefferson National Memorial Competition G. Cullen, Townscape ATBAT- Afrique, Rabat Sale, Morocco A & P. Smithson, Golden Lane Housing, London; Haupstadt, Berlin L. Kahn, Philadelphia Plan Candilis- Josic- Woods, Toulouse- le- Mirail a. José Luis Sert, The Human Scale in City Planning, in Paul Zucker, ed. New Architecture and City Planning (NY: Philosophical Library, 1944), pp b. I. De Wolfe, Townscape: A Plea for an English Visual Philosophy, in Ockman, ed., Architecture Culture, : A Documentary Anthology (NY: Rizzoli, 1993), pp c. Sixteen Principles for the Restructuring of Cities, in Ockman, ed. Architecture Culture, : A Documentary Anthology (NY: Rizzoli, 1993), pp d. Alison and Peter Smithson, Ordinariness and Light: Urban Theories , and Their Application in a Building Project (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970), pp e. Tom Avermaete, Mat- Building: Team 10 s Reinvention of the Critical Capacity of the Urban Tissue, in Risselada and van den Heuvel, eds., Team : In Search of a Utopia of the Present (Rotterdam: NAi, 2006), pp f. J. L. Sert, Centres of Community Life, in Jacqueline Tyrwhitt, Jose Luis Sert, Ernesto Nathan Rogers eds., The Heart of the City: Towards the Humanization of Everyday Life (London: Lund Humphries, 1952), pp g. Patrick Geddes, Education for Town Planning, and the Need for Civics, and The Survey of Cities, in Cities in Evolution (NY: Howard Fertig, 1968), pp. 1 24, , Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Fall of 6

4 h. Oscar Newman, ed. CIAM 59 in Otterlo: Group for the Research of Social and Visual Interrelationships (Stuttgart: Karl Krämer Verlag, and London: Alec Tiranti Ltd., 1961), selections i. George Candilis, Alexis Josic, Shadrach Woods, eds. Candilis- Josic- Woods: Building for People (New York: F. A. Praeger, 1968), selections j. Serge Chermayeff and Alexander Tzonis, Shape of Community: Realization of Human Potential (Baltimore: Penguin Books Inc.), 1971, pp. 1 15, October Systems and Supports Lima, Peru Habraken, Maakssen housing project Lynch, City images of Boston, L.A. a. N. J. Habraken, Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing (NY: Praeger Publishers, 1972), pp b. Christopher Alexander, A City is Not a Tree, parts 1 and 2, in Architectural Forum [April 1965]: & [May 1965]: c. John F. C. Turner, Housing By People: Towards Autonomy in Building Environments (London: Marion Boyars, 1976), selections d. Kevin Lynch, The Visual Shape of the Shapeless Metropolis, in T. Banerjee and M. Southworth, eds., City Sense and City Design: Writings and Projects of Kevin Lynch [Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995], pp e. Françoise Choay, Remarque à propos de sémiologie urbaine, and Roland Barthes, Sémiologie et urbanisme, Architecture d aujourd hui 153 (December 1970); translated as Semiology and the Urban in N. Leach, ed. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory [London & NY: Routledge, 1997], pp October Utopian and Dystopian Urbanism in the 1960s Constant, New Babylon K. Tange, Plan for Tokyo Y. Friedman, Spatial Urbanism Archigram, Plug- In City; Instant City Cedric Price, Potteries Thinkbelt a. Kenzo Tange, A Plan for Tokyo, 1960: Toward a Structural Reorganization, in Ockman, Architecture Culture, ibid., pp b. Reyner Banham, Epilogue: The Meaning of Megastructure, in Megastructures: Urban Futures of the Recent Past (NY: Harper and Row, 1976), pp c. Guy Debord, Theses on Cultural Revolution, Constant, A Different City for a Different Life, Raoul Vaneigem, Comments Against Urbanism in October 79 (1997), pp. 90 2, , d. Reyner Banham, Paul Barker, Peter Hall, Cedric Price, Non- Plan: An Experiment in Freedom, in New Society [20 March 1969]: pp e. Metabolism, Architectural Design 34 (special issue) (October 1964) f. Michel Ragon, Où vivrons- nous demain? (Paris: Robert Laffont, 1963) Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Fall of 6

5 g. Peter Cook, Experimental Architecture (NY: Universe Books, 1970), selections 5 November NO CLASS: ELECTION DAY 7 November The Postmodernism Metropolis Venturi & Scott Brown, Learning from Las Vegas Eisenman, Cannaregio, IBA Koolhaas/OMA, Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture Rossi, Modena Cemetery, IBA housing a. Aldo Rossi, The Urban Artifact as Work of Art, in The Architecture of the City (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1982) b. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, A Significance for A & P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, in Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge, MIT Press, 1972), pp c. Lars Lerup, Stim & Dross: Rethinking the Metropolis, in Assemblage 25 (Dec. 1994): d. Richard Ingersoll, Postmodern Urbanism: Forward Into the Past, Design Book Review 17 (Winter 1989), pp e. Edward Soja, Taking Los Angeles Apart: Towards a Postmodern Geography, in Postmodern Geographies: the Reassertion of Space in Critical Social Theory [London: Verso, 1989], pp November New Urbanism and its Discontents Seaside, FL Moore, et al., Sea Ranch Celebration, FL a. Barnett, Calthorpe, Plater- Zyberk, Gindroz, Duany, Leccese, McCormick, eds. Charter of the New Urbanism (NY: McGraw- Hill, 2000), selections b. Rem Koolhaas, The Generic City, in S,M,L,XL (NY: Monacelli Press, 1995), pp c. Peter Calthorpe vs. Lars Lerup in Michigan Debates on Urbanism III (Ann Arbor: U. of Michigan Press, 2005), pp , d. Robert Somol, Indifferent Urbanism or Modernism Was Almost Right, in Ilka & Andreas Ruby, eds. Urban Trans Formation, (Berlin: Ruby Press, 2008), pp e. Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (NY: Random House, 1961), pp. 5 18, f. Duany & Plater- Zyberk, The Second Coming of the American Small Town, The Wilson Quarterly 16, no. 1 (Winter 1992): November Globalization & Geopolitics Allen, Logistical Activities Zone, Barcelona & Souks of Beirut OMA, Euralille MVRDV, Mainstreet/Almere, Emptyscape, Datascape/Data Town Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Fall of 6

6 a. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Introduction: Rhizome, in A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1986), pp b. Arjun Appadurai, The Production of Locality, in Modernity at Large (Minneapolis: U. of Minnesota Press, 1996), pp c. Eric Cadora & Laura Kurgan/Spatial Information Design Lab, Architecture and Justice: Million Dollar Blocks: Justice in the City (2006- ongoing) d. Paul Virilio, Critical Space in The Virilio Reader (London: Wiley- Blackwell, 1998), pp e. R. E. Somol, Urbanism without Architecture, in Stan Allen, Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City (NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999), pp f. Christine Boyer, The Imaginary Real World of CyberCities, Assemblage 1992 g. M. Castells, High Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban- Regional Process in the United States, in Urban Affairs Annual Review vol. 28, 1985, pp h. M. Smith and P. Kollock, eds. Communities in Cyberspace (NY: Routledge, 1999), selections 26 November 28 November NO CLASS: THANKSGIVING 3 5 December Postcolonialism and the Myth of Self- Organization Caochangdi, Beijing OMA, Lagos + Beijing Tijuana, Mexico Occupy December FINAL EXAM a. Paul Gilroy, The Status of Difference: Multiculturalism and the Postcolonial City, in post ex sub dis: Urban Fragmentations and Constructions (Rotterdam: 010 Uitgeverlj, 2002), pp b. Koolhaas, et al., eds. Mutations: Harvard Project in the City (Bordeaux: ACTAR, 2001), pp c. Robert Mangurian and Mary- Ann Ray, Urban Rural Conundrums, in The Journals of the International Institute (Fall 2008) d. John Zacharaias and Desmond Bliek, The Role of Urban Planning in the Spontaneous Redevelopment of Huaqianbei, Shenzhen, in Journal of Urban Design 13, n. 3 (October 2008): e. Teddy Cruz, Border Update: Magical Realism the American Way, in Log 6 (Fall 2005): 51 7 f. Nasser Rabbat, The Arab Revolution Takes Back the Public Space (online at _public_space) Barnard and Columbia Colleges, Fall of 6

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COURSE DESCRIPTION: COURSE OBJECTIVES: Course Syllabus Jump to Today Urban Design Seminar I, Summer 2017: Urban Theory and Design, 1945 2017 Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation M.S. in Architecture