Honors
HNRS 121-01: Sustainable Urban Landscape
The seminar explores interconnected urban/architectural
design, diversity, and equity issues involved in any attempt to reconstruct our
devastated North American inner-city areas sustainably. Using the theoretical and practical insights
of planner/architects (Gregory Henriquez, Michael Maltzan, Pugh + Scarpa, David
Adjaye, Thom Mayne) and of planner/theorists (Leonie Sandercock, Edward Soya,
Neal Leach, David Harvey, Kenneth Reardon, Saskia Sassen) we will scrutinize landscape, urban form, and planning
issues in the light of the urban history of post-industrial Midwestern
cities. Key notions will include
'camouflage', 'third space', connectivity-equity-physical mobility, and the
'value-added' elements of public space (Lefebvre, Enwezor). We will also look particularly at current
alternative and affordable housing models in the light of North American
vernacular architecture and of the practice of groups as diverse as Atlanta's
'Mad Housers', the late Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio, local CDC and non-profit
examples such as Columbus Housing Partners, Habitat for Humanity, and Licking
County Housing, Inc. A key feature of
the course will be the critique of the final visual product and follow-on work
of the East Main Street Urban Visioning Project, the instructor's current
scholarly engagement based in a key low-income area of
Fall Term: 2008
Credits: 4
Fulfills: GE Requirement in Fine Arts (A)
Cross-listed: ARTH 262-01, ENVS 290-01
Meeting times: 14:30-15:50 MW
Instructor: Karl Sandin
Open to: First-years/Sophomores/Juniors/Seniors, limited by quota