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Waste/Works
Construction in its current form has been known as a growth industry reliant on extractive practices, on-demand materials, and cultures of demolition. With landfills bursting at the seams with the stuff of buildings, it is no longer enough for the work of architecture to remain insulated at the front end of the supply chain. WASTE/WORKS seeks to revalue materials differently, through digital and physical means. By attending to the debris, offcuts, stockpiles, and secondary material economies of architecture, WASTE/WORKS dreams of a post-extraction world where product is not the key economic driver, but rather, practices that act on waste systems and reorient material relations through aesthetic registers.
Robin Evans famously declared that architects draw; they do not build. What, then, are the represented and mediated conditions of waste? What is the aesthetic / technical threshold between material and discard? What forms of knowledge, tools, and forms of visibility can architectural indexes, drawings, maps, and models draw together? In this course, we will think waste alongside architectural theory and representation, art practices, discard studies, environmental media, and political economy. We will question architecture’s waste histories and futures under (the exhaustion of) capitalism, and rethink its value through representation.
WASTE/WORKS seeks:
_ to challenge / subvert norms in architectural drawing, mapping, modeling, inventorying, and representing of material resources after extraction
_ to confront architecture’s separation of design and specification work from “dirty work”
_ to develop working “waste” concepts and alternate representation methods
_ to carve out a space for interrogating discourses in discard, degrowth, waste/surplus, and design
504 AVERY
W 11 AM - 1PM
FULL SEMESTER
11410
| Course | Semester | Title | Student Work | Instructor | Syllabus | Requirements & Sequence | Location & Time | Session & Points | Call No. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ARCH4327‑1 | Spring 2026 |
Waste/Works
|
Amelyn Ng |
504 Avery
W 11 AM - 1 PM
|
Full Semester
3 Points
|
12307 |