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Transcalar Architecture: Construction Details as Cosmopolitical Enactments
Construction details are the ultimate site of architectural power. They bring design and politics together, inaugurating politics as compositional rather than spatial, deliberative or parliamented. This seminar investigates how architecture operates across scales: from the micro-politics of joints, materials, and assemblies to the planetary dimensions of environmental, social, and technological entanglement.
This will be an opportunity to know and interrogate the architectural production of reference from 1968 to the present. The established contexts of canonical authors and firms —including OMA, Cedric Price, SANAA, MVRDV, Herzog & de Meuron, David Chipperfield, David Adjaye, Toyo Ito, Lina Bo Bardi, Francis Kéré, Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu of Amateur Architecture Studio, and many others— will be critically confronted with radical and emergent forms of practice that challenge inherited notions of authorship, agency, and scale.
By framing the architectural detail as a cosmopolitical enactment, the course examines how seemingly technical or localized acts of construction participate in the negotiation of broader ecologies of coexistence and conflict. Through readings, discussions, and project-based analysis, students will explore how details mediate relations among human and nonhuman actors — from labor and supply chains to infrastructures, species, and atmospheres.
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W 11 AM - 1 PM
Full Semester
ALL GSAPP
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