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ARCH6898-1 / Spring 2019

Architecture, Building, + Labor

Location & Time

115 AVERY HALL

TH 11 AM - 1 PM

Session & Points

FULL SEMESTER

3 Points
Call Number

19697

There are few images as central to Modernism as the visionary architect creating novel forms with new building technologies. This seminar unpacks this image by looking critically at the making of buildings within a larger field of production. It traces the changing relationship of architectural design, building practices, and labor relations from the mid-19th century to the present while asking a series of key questions: How have architects responded to, adopted, and embraced new building technologies? How has the adoption of specific building methods shaped material flows, social relations, and labor conditions on the site? How did architects position their promotion of new building technologies within larger frameworks of cultural, social, political, and economic policies?