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learning from new orleans ARCH 585: Research Methods in Architecture Fall 2011 Instructor: Arijit Sen; Contact: senA@uwm.edu, office hours: by appt. Course Content The course engages students in a humanistic understanding of social, material, cultural, political, economic and environmental circumstances of human settlements. This process will require students to look for patterns and systems that underpin the ecological, physical and social reality of the Lower Ninth Ward and surrounding impacted areas of New Orleans. 1. The research methods class (3-credits) shows students how to analyze and make sense of information gathered from census, cartographic, archival, ethnographic, architectural and environmental sources. 2. Students will learn how to read and analyze the built environment as a cultural artifact. 3. They will examine how histories and voices of citizens can be incorporated into their design process and how contested histories, traditions and identities can be represented. 4. They will learn to use material culture history, public history and environmental history in their design process. Additional Workshops and Field Work Mark these days in your calendar. These are days when we will have special workshops and symposia. November 3-4, 2011 Critical Refugee Studies Conference, All Day. Attendance required November 11, 2011 Wes Janz Workshop, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM SKYPE workshops tba Teaching Methods This class follows a teaching strategy called Problem-Based-Learning (PBL) where resolving real life problems are planned into the curriculum in ways that promote higher-level cognitive learning. PBL is a

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teaching method that is best applied in the study of complex knowledge domains such as culture and architectural design where there is no single scientific answer or resolution. Problems based learning principles also allow students to apply and evaluate complex information that they encounter during research directly into their design. Learning Objectives On completion of this class students will gain the following skills. 1. An ability to collect empirical data and do fieldwork. 2. An awareness of ethnographic, archival, architectural, observational, and ecological data collection

strategies and an understanding of interpretive, qualitative and correlational analysis. An ability to collect, analyze, synthesize and evaluate material and social data.

3. An ability to craft a thesis statement and produce an appropriate program of inquiry. 4. An ability to evaluate and apply information. 5. An ability to take an informed position on the politics of urban rebuilding, sustainability, and social

engagement. NAAB Criteria Addressed

Speaking and Writing Skills Human Behavior

Critical Thinking Skills Human Diversity

Graphics Skills Sustainable Design/ Social Equity and Public History

Research Skills Program Preparation

Fundamental Design Skills Site Conditions

Collaborative Skills Client Role in Architecture

National and Regional Traditions Ethics and Professional Judgment

Texts: Required (for research methods) Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2007) Nora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, (New York: Harper Perennial Books, 1996) Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields, What is a City: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008) Recommended: The following books are held on reserve in the Resource Center and/or in the Library (do not buy) Ila Berman and Mona El Khafif, Urban/Build Local/Global, (California: William Stout, 2009) Emily Talen, Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods, (Architectural Press, 2008); Eve Blau and Ivan Rupnik, Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice, (New York: Actar D, 2007) Jeff Hou, Jeff Hou, (ed), Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and The Remaking of Contemporary Cities (Kentucky: Taylor and Francis Group, 2010) Charles Waldheim, ed. The Landscape Urbanism Reader, (New York: Princeton University Press, 2006) Strategies This semester we will look at the New Orleans case study via three “systems.” These are strategies that will help us understand the situation on the ground better. These systems include a) infrastructural system, b) ecological system, c) the lived system. Students are first required to analyze and document each of these

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systems separately. Unlike other studios students will have to create their own project/program statement and carefully reflect on the design process/methods. Roles In addition to being designers, students will also play the role of research specialists that will allow them to focus on specific skills of information collection and knowledge domains. These roles include a) historian, b) ethnographer, and c) Ecologist. These roles will be further explained in class. Schedule Friday mornings are group workshops on research methods (except November 4 and 11) Grades and Grading Readings and discussions The course is a collective endeavor. Your participation in class discussion is paramount: essential and expected. As such, you need to read all of the assigned readings and critically think about the issues posed in them before each class. Class sessions should have a constructive and reflective atmosphere in which all participate, discussing their thoughts and concerns, and providing useful, constructive feedback. The instructor’s role is as facilitator, discussant, resource, devil's advocate, occasional protagonist, and eventual evaluator. Class discussions will be judged by the flexibility and critical ability of a student to evaluate and value the different perspective intentions, positions, and purposes of the area of study. In that respect it is important for students to display the ability to questions perspectives that they are more comfortable with and apply positions they are less familiar with. The discussions should display that the discussant is ready to question, reconsider, reaffirm, or reconstruct their evolving positions. Students will be called upon to direct discussion every week. 2. Grades Grades are based on the following categories: 20% In class participation Regular attendance Completing assigned readings Leading discussions and sharing ideas

Flexibility and critical ability of a student to evaluate and value the different perspective intentions, positions, and purposes of the area of study. Intellectual curiosity, taking intellectual risks, suspending disbelief and trying out ideas that are different

20% New Orleans Field Assignments 10% Reviews and Workshops 50% Projects and assignments, Final Documentation University Policies In this course, university policies and procedures will be followed for academic misconduct, accommodation for disability and religious observation, discriminatory conduct, sexual harassment, and other matters. These are briefly described below. The university has a responsibility to promote academic honesty and integrity and to develop procedures to deal effectively with instances of academic dishonesty. Students are responsible for the honest completion and representation of their work, for the appropriate citation of sources, and for respect of others' academic endeavors. A student may appeal a grade on the grounds that it is based on a capricious or arbitrary decision of the course instructor. Such an appeal shall follow the established procedures adopted by the department and school. These procedures are available in writing from the department chair. If you need special accommodations in order to meet any of the requirements of this course, please contact me as soon as possible. Also, please see me if you anticipate a conflict in attending a class because of a religious observation. Sexual harassment will not be tolerated by the university. It subverts the university's mission and threatens the careers, educational experience, and well-being of students, faculty and staff. The university will not tolerate behavior between or among members of the university community which creates an unacceptable working environment.

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All projects shall be designed to engage the environment in a way that dramatically reduces or eliminates the need for fossil fuels, and to convey an ethical position in regard to the use of non-renewable materials and materials that pose a threat to human and environmental health. Bibliography Here is a detailed list of books and articles that may be useful during the semester. Majority of them are under reserve in the Main Library under NOI: New Orleans Initiative. Go to https://millib.wisconsin.edu/vwebv/enterCourseReserve.do Under the course pull-down menu choose NOI: New Orleans Initiative and find the books and readings. All readings from the Weekly Readings section are also held under reserve in the Main Library. Look under your course number.

New Orleans Books and Articles All New Orleans related books are on reserve at the Golda Meir Library under New Orleans Initiative (Go to the Reserves Page) Demographic and Cultural Diversity, politics of citizenship and belonging 1. Emily Talen, Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods (UK, London:

Architectural Press, 2008) 2. Emily Talen, Urban Design Reclaimed: Tools, Techniques, and Strategies for Planners (California:

Amer Planning Assn, 2009) 3. Emily Talen, Diversity as if it Mattered, http://www.terrain.org/essays/17/talen.htm 4. Ali Madanipour, Ali Madanipour, ed, Whose Public Space: International Case Studies in Urban

Design (Kentucky: Taylor and Francis Group, 2010) 5. Jeff Hou, Jeff Hou, ed, Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and The Remaking of

Contemporary Cities (Kentucky: Taylor and Francis Group, 2010) 6. Nan Elin, Integral Urbanism (New York: CRC Press, 2006) 7. Henry Jenkins, “People from that part of the world”: The Politics of Dislocation Cultural

Anthropology, Volume 21, Issue 3 (August 2006), pp 469-486 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.2006.21.3.469/abstract

8. George Lipsitz, “Learning from New Orleans: The Social Warrant of Hostile Privatism and Competitive Consumer Citizenship” Cultural Anthropology, Volume 21, Issue 3 (August 2006), pp 451-468 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.2006.21.3.451/abstract

9. Michael K. J. Fischer, “Introduction to Culture at Large Forum with George Lipsitz: Social Warrants and Rethinking American Culture” Cultural Anthropology, Volume 21, Issue 3 (August 2006), pp 447-450 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.2006.21.3.447/abstract

10. Kim Forth, “Cultural Critique in and of American Culture” Cultural Anthropology, Volume 21, Issue 3 (August 2006), pp 496-500 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1525/can.2006.21.3.496/abstract

11. Eran Ben –Joseph, The Code of the City: Standards and the Hidden Language of Place Making (MA: MIT Press, 2005)

12. Karen Franck and Quentin Stevens, Karen Franck and Quentin Stevens, ed, Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life (New York: Routledge, 2007)

13. Jane Jacobs, Death and Life of Great American Cities (Vintage Books, the University of Michigan, 1992)

14. Iain Borden, Iain Borden, Joe Kerr, Jane Rendell and Alicia Pivaro, ed, The Unknown City: Contesting Architecture and Social Space (MA: MIT Press, 2002)

15. Setha M Low, Plaza’s: The Politics of Public Space and Culture (Texas: University of Texas Press, 2000)

16. Peirce Fee Lewis, New Orleans: the Making of an Urban Landscape (Columbia College Chicago: Center for American Places, 2003)

17. Richard Campanella, Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (Center for Louisiana Studies: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006)

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18. Richard Campanella, , “Ethnic Geographies of New Orleans”, Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (Center for Louisiana Studies: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006)

History Culture and Memory 19. Dell Upton, “The Urban Cemetery and the Urban Community: The Origin of the New Orleans

Cemetery.” in Exploring Everyday Landscapes: Perspectives in Vernacular. Architecture VII, ed. Annmarie Adams and Sally McMurry (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997), pp.131-45.

20. Dolores Hayden, Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History (MA: MIT Press, 1997) Ecological and infrastructural Patterns 21. Craig E. Colten, An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New Orleans from Nature (Louisiana: Louisiana

State University Press, 2006) 22. Dell Upton, “The Master Street of the World: The Levee.” in Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public

Space, ed. Zeynep Celik, Diane Favro and Richard Ingersoll (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996), pp. 277-88.

23. Ari Kelman, A River and Its City (CA: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2003) 24. Till, Karen E. In Press. “Greening the City? Artistic Re-Visions of Sustainability in Bogota” e-

misferica, 2009-2010, http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/e-misferica-71/till (August 22, 2010). 25. All Issues, e-misférica , Hemispheric Institute of the Americas

http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/all-issues, (August 22, 2010) 26. Gisela Canepa Koch, “The Public Sphere and Cultural Rights: Culture as Action,” Pontificia

Universidad Catolica del Peru, 2009-2010, http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/e-misferica-62/canepa-koch, (August 22, 2010)

27. Carol Burns and Andrea Kahn, Site Matters (New York: Routledge, 2005) 28. Georgia Daskalakis, Charles Waldheim and Jason Young, Stalking Detroit (Actar, 2001) 29. Charles Waldheim and Charles Waldheim, ed, Case: Lafayette Park Detroit (New York: Prestel, 2004) 30. Peter Shedd Reed, Groundswell: Constructing the Contemporary Landscape (New York: The Museum

of Modern Art, 2005) 31. Mohsen Mostafavi, Harvard University, Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty, ed, Ecological

Urbanism (Lars Muller Publisher, 2010) Spatial, geographical, and architectural Patterns 32. Anita Drever, “New Orleans: a Re-emerging Latino Destination City” in Journal of Cultural

Geography, 2008, 287-303 33. Stephen Verderber, Delirious New Orleans: Manifesto for an Extraordinary American City (Austin:

University of Texas Press, 2009) 34. Richard Campanella, Time and Place in New Orleans: Past Geographies in the Present Day

(Louisiana: Pelican publishing company, 2002) 35. Richard Campanella, Marina Campanella, New Orleans Then and Now (Louisiana: Pelican publishing

company, 1999) 36. Richard Campanella, Bienville’s Dilemma: A Historical Geography of New Orleans (Center for

Louisiana Studies, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2008) 37. Richard Campanella, Geographies of New Orleans: Urban Fabrics Before the Storm (Center for

Louisiana Studies: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006) 38. Richard Campanella, , “Ethnic Geographies of New Orleans,” Geographies of New Orleans: Urban

Fabrics Before the Storm (Center for Louisiana Studies: University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 2006) 39. Peirce Fee Lewis, New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Urban Landscape (Columbia

college Chicago: Center for American Places, 2003) 40. Li Wei, Airriess Christopher, Chen Angela Chia-Chen, Leong Karen J, Keith Verna M, Adams Karen

L, “Surviving Katrina and its aftermath: evacuation and community mobilization by Vietnamese Americans and African Americans, Journal of Cultural Geography, October 01, 2008.

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41. Dell Upton, “Grid as Design Method: The Spatial Imagination in Early New Orleans.” in Architecture –Design Methods –Inca Structures: Festschrift for Jean-Pierre Protzen, ed. Hans Dehlinger and Johanna Dehlinger (Kassel: Kassel University Press, 2009), pp. 174-81.

42. Dell Upton, “Understanding New Orleans’ Architectural Ecology,” in Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ed. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), pp. 275-87

43. Dell Upton, “New Orleans: Domestic Social Space,” and “Philadelphia: Health, Reform, Control.” Contributions to Mark P.Leone and Neil Asher Silberman, in Invisible America: Unearthing Our Hidden History (New York: Henry Holt, 1995), pp. 136-49.

44. Ila Berman and Mona El Khafif, Urban/Build Local/Global, (California: William Stout, 009) 45. Eve Blau and Ivan Rupnik, Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice, (New York:

Actar D, 2007) 46. Clyde Woods, ed, “In the Wake of Katrina: New Paradigms and Social Visions,” American Quarterly,

Volume 61, Number 3 (September 2009) http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/american_quarterly/toc/aq.61.3.html

47. Rebeca Antoine, Voices Rising: Stories from the Katrina Narrative Project, (New Orleans: The University of New Orleans Press, 2008)

48. Peter Marcuse, “From Critical Urban Theory to the Right to the City,” City 13 (June 2009), p. 185 - 197

49. All Articles, City 13 (June 2009) 50. “Cities and Diversity: Should We Want It? Can We Plan For It?” In Urban Affairs Review 41

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Electronic Readings Under NOI Antoine, ed. / Voices Rising: Stories from The Katrina Narrative Project / Editor's Introduction & We Thought We Made the Right Decision: The Lozanos: As Told to Caroline Skinner Birch & Wachter, eds. / Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina / Preface: "The Wound" [by Amy Gutman] & Introduction: Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster [by Eugenie L. Birch & Susan M. Wachter Bolding / Before and After North Dorgenois: Growing Up in the Sixth Ward / Introduction & Part I: My Family Brinkley / The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast / Author's Note & Chapter 1: Ignoring the Inevitable Chase / Frenchmen, Desire, Good Children, and Other Other Streets of New Orleans / Foreword: But First -- Detour! & Chapter 1: Wilderness -- and a Street Dennis / Palmyra Street / Part I: My Family (Dyson / Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster / Preface: Pompeii and 8/29 & Chapter 1: Race and Poverty Gaillard et al. / In the Path of the Storms: Bayou La Batre, Coden, and the Alabama Coast / Preface & Introduction Gessler / Very New Orleans: A Celebration of History, Culture, and Cajun Country Charm / Chapter 1: French Quarter Hartman & Squires, eds. / There Is No Such Thing as a Natural Disaster: Race, Class, and Hurricane Katrina / Chapter 1: Pre-Katrina, Post-Katrina Horne / Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City / Preface & Chapter 1: A Camille on Betsy's Track Jackson / What Would the World Be Without Women?: Stories from the Ninth Ward? / Introduction & Part I: Women in My Family Lewis, P.F. / New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape [1st edition: 1976] / Foreword, Apologia and Acknowledgments & Chapter 1: The Eccentric City Lewis, P.F. / New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape [2nd edition: 2003] / Preface and Acknowledgments to Book Two & Chapter 1: The Eccentric City Lewis, R. W. / The House of Dance & Feathers: A Museum by Ronald W. Lewis / Breunlin & Lewis / Introduction: The Making of a Museum and Its Catalogue

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Montana-Leblanc / Not Just the Levees Broke: My Story During and After Hurricane Katrina / Forword: Spirits Won't Be Broken & Chapter 1 Moyer / Katrina: Stories of Rescue, Recovery and Rebuilding in the Eye of the Storm / Publisher's Note & Gulf Coast Braces for Onslaught of Hurricane Katrina [by The Associated Press] Nelson / The Combination / Introduction & Part I: Family (File size=3221K) Piazza / Why New Orleans Matters / Introduction & Chapter 1 Potter, ed. / Racing the Storm: Racial Implications and Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina / Introduction & Chapter 1: Making Sense of a Hurricane: Social Identity and Attribution Explanations of Race-Related Differences in Katrina Disaster Response [by Angela P. Cole et al.] Schneider / African Americans in the Jazz Age: A Decade of Struggle and Promise / Introduction: What the World War Wrought South End Press Collective, eds. / What Lies Beneath: Katrina, Race, and the State of the Nation / Preface: Up from the Depths & Introduction: Below the Water Line [by Kalamu Ya Salaam] Steinberg & Shields / What Is a City?: Rethinking the Urban After Hurricane Katrina / Chapter 1: What Is a City?: Katrina's Answers [by Phil Steinberg] Sublette / The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square / Chapter 1: Rock The City TIME Staff Members / TIME: Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America / Introduction: Hurricane Katrina: The Storm That Changed America & Images Toledano & Christovich / New Orleans Architecture: Volume VI: Faubourg Tremé and the Bayou Road / Foreword & Introduction Toledano et al. / New Orleans Architecture: Volume IV: The Creole Faubourgs / Foreword & Introduction Troutt, ed. After the Storm: Black Intellectuals Explore the Meaning of Hurricane Katrina / Foreword & Introduction van Heerden & Bryan / The Storm: What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina: The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist / Introduction: Disaster, Tragedy, Failure -- and Hope Ward / The Katrina Papers: A Journal of Trauma and Recovery / Katrina: A Matrix of Stories & Early September Preludes Wylie & Wylie / Between Piety and Desire / Introduction & Part I: Growing Up Inside

Websites http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/technical-assistance/disaster-recovery/ http://www.preservationnation.org/issues/gulf-coast-recovery/multimedia/recovery-timeline.html Memory, Heritage, Place stories and the Urban Public realm Eleni Bastea, Memory and Architecture (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004) Grady Clay, Close-Up: How to Read the American City (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980) Grady Clay, Real Places: An Unconventional Guide to America's Generic Landscape (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998) AbdouMaliq Simone, For the City Yet to Come: Changing African Life in Four Cities (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004) Gerald Pocius, A Place to Belong: Community Order and Everyday Space in Calvert (Montreal: McGill University Press, 2000) M. Christine Boyer, The City of Collective Memory: Its Historical Imagery and Architectural Entertainments (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996) Rose Marie San Juan, Rome: A City out of Print (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001) Joachim Schlör, Nights in the big city: Paris, Berlin, London 1840-1930 (London: Reaktion Books, 1998) Maurice Halbawchs, On Collective Memory, Lewis A. Coser, Translator (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)

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Philip Thiel, People, Paths and Purposes: Notations for a Participatory Envirotecture (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997) Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and Invisible, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1969.Pierra Nora Michel DeCerteau, The Practice of Everyday Life (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002) Susan Slyomovics, The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998) Jennifer Jordan, Structures of Memory: Understanding Urban Change in Berlin and Beyond (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006) Ethnography and Methods George E Marcus, “Ethnography in/of the World System: The Emergence of Multi-sited Ethnography,” Annual Review of Anthropology 24 (1995), p. 95-117. Akhil Gupta and James Fergusson, “Discipline and Practice: ‘The Field’ as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology.” In Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, pp. 1-46, (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997).

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Weekly Reading and Schedule

(Instruction begins September 6, Thanksgiving recess November 23-37, Last day of classes December 14, 2011)

Research Methods Class and Studio (Arijit’s Section) integration chart Week Dates Topic Studio Research Methods

1 9/ 6, 8, 9 MEMORY, PLACE AND DISPLACEMENT

Memorial Project Mapping Systems and Library searches

2 9/13, 15, 16 Methods of data collection and application

Research and documentation

Observation and sketching systems

3 9/20, 22, 23 Charrettes Ethnography and interviewing,

4 9/27, 29, 30 Project work Ecology workshop, Numbers in demographic databases

Human Subjects

10/4 REVIEW Human Subjects Documentation and final drawing printouts

Systems documentation due

5 10/ 4, 6, 7 New Orleans Field Trip Field work, mapping, interviews, charrettes, report writing,

6 10/11, 13, 14

7 10/18, 20, 21

HOUSING POPULATIONS

Housing Project part 1

Housing Project + Charrettes

Quantitative data collection and Program development

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8 10/25, 27, 28

Programming and application of research information

Charrettes Building systems and details

9 11/1, 3, 4 CRITCAL REFUGEE STUDIES CONFERENCE

Studio work and conference attendance

Conference attendance

10 11/8, 10, 11 Shifting Scales – Housing Project part 2

Charrette and work

Student presentation and Wes Janz Workshop

11 11/15, 17, 18

REVIEW Studio Review by architecture professionals

Student Presentation and Review by non architects

12 11/22, 24, 25

Thanksgiving recess

13 11/29, 12/ 1, 2

POLICY AND DOCUMENTATION

Urban Scale Project

Thesis statement

14 12/ 6, 8, 9 Defending informed positions on the politics of urban rebuilding, sustainability, and social engagement.

Urban Scale Project

Studio documentation

15 12/ 13 Drawings due No research methods class

16 12/20 REVIEW Documentation due

Weekly Schedule For Research Methods Class ________________________________________________________________________Week 1 Dates: September 9: Systems Required readings to be completed by Friday Dell Upton, “Understanding New Orleans’ Architectural Ecology,” in Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster: Lessons from Hurricane Katrina, ed. Eugenie L. Birch and Susan M. Wachter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006), 275-87 Phil Steinberg, “What is a City? Katrina’s Answers,” In What is a City: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina, editors, Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields. (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008), 3-29.

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Michael Rios and P. Aeschbacher, “Claiming Public Space: The Case for Proactive, Democratic Design.” In Expanding Architecture. B. Bell & K. Wakeford, Eds., (New York: Metropolis Books, 2007), p. 84-91. Arijit Sen, “Evaluating Lived Landscapes and Quotidian Architecture of Muslim Devon,” In Homogeneity of Representations, p. 119-139, Modjtaba Sadria Editor, (London: I.B.Tauris, forthcoming, 2010). http://www.preservationnation.org/resources/technical-assistance/disaster-recovery/ Workshop: Using Libraries, reading, writing, thesis statement Friday Lunch Movie: When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (excerpts) ________________________________________________________________________Week 2: Infrastructure Dates: September 16 Required readings to be completed by Friday “Theories and Principles of Action Research,” Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2007) Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields, “Part 5 Divisions and Connections.” What is a City: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). p. 155-185 Roger Trancik, “Three Theories of Urban Spatial Design.” In Finding Lost Space: Theories of Urban Design pp. 97-124, New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1986. Emily Talen, “Chapter 5: Patterns,” Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods, (Architectural Press, 2008), Workshop: Mapping demographic and environmental data Friday Lunch Movie: Be Kind Rewind ________________________________________________________________________Week 3: People Dates: September 23 Required readings to be completed by Friday Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields, “Part 4 Memories.” What is a City: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008), p. 125-153James Rojas, “The Enacted Environment: Examining the Streets and Yards of East Los Angeles,” Everyday America: Cultural Landscape Studies after J.B. Jackson, Chris Wilson and Paul Groth (editors), (Berkeley and London: Univ. of California Press, 2003). p. 275-92. “Setting the Stage,” Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2007) Workshop: Ethnography and Interviewing Friday Lunch Movie: Creating community: Lafayette Park ________________________________________________________________________Week 4: Ecologies Dates: September 30

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Required readings to be completed by Friday “Look,” Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2007) Peter Marcuse, “Study Areas, Sites, and the Geographic Approach to Public Action,” Site Matters, ed. Carol Burns and Andrea Kahn, (New York: Routledge, 2005), p. 249-280 Pierce F. Lewis, “Chapter 1: The Eccentric City” New Orleans: The Making of an Urban Landscape (Columbia College Chicago: Center for American Places, 2003) Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields, “Part 2: Materialities,” What is a City: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008), p. 57-94 Ari Kelman, “Nature’s Highway to Market,” A River and Its City (CA: University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2003), p. 1-18 Workshop: Mapping Ecologies Friday Lunch Movie: Do the Right Thing ________________________________________________________________________Week 5: NEW ORLEANS ON SITE CLASS Dates: October 7 Required readings to be completed by Friday Phil Steinberg and Rob Shields, “New Orleans’ Culture of Resistance” What is a City: Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina, (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2008). p.30-55 ________________________________________________________________________Week 6: NEW ORLEANS ON SITE CLASS Dates: October 14 Required readings to be completed by Friday Setha M. Low, "Constructing Difference" in On the Plaza, (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000), p. 154-179 ________________________________________________________________________Week 7: Programming and Thesis statement Dates: October 21 Required readings to be completed by Friday Michael Rios, “Public Space Praxis: Cultural Capacity and Political Efficacy in Latino Placemaking.” Berkeley Planning Journal, 22 (2009), p. 92-112. Karen Franck, Quentin Stevens, “Tying Down Loose Space” Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life, (New York: Routledge, 2007), p. 1-34 Iain Borden and Jane Rendell, "Thick Edge: Architectural Boundaries in the Postmodern Metropolis," InterSections, New York: Routledge, 2000, pp. 221-46. Nabeel Hamdi, “Chapter 8: Building A Program,” Housing Without Houses, (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991), p. 11-37 Friday Lunch Movie: Cities for People, Density by Design,

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________________________________________________________________________Week 8: Design Process Dates: October 28 Required readings to be completed by Friday Michael Rios, “Community-driven place making: The Social Practice of Participatory Design in the Making of Union Point Park.” (with J. Hou). Journal of Architectural Education, 57: 1, September 2003: 19-27. N. John Habraken, “Control of Complexity,” Places 4:2 (1991): 3-15. Renee Chow, Ch 4 “Seeing Suburban Dwelling as a Fabric,” Suburban Space: The Fabric of Dwelling. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002) Nabeel Hamdi, “Chapter 4: Flexibility and Building,” Housing Without Houses, (New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1991), p. 11-37 ________________________________________________________________________Week 9: CRITICAL REFUGEE STUDIES CONFERENCE (all day attendance required) Dates: November 4 Student research and write on scholarship of Michael Rios 2011, “Toward A Social Ecology of Scale: Collective Action, Community Design, and Landscape Praxis.” Landscape Journal 30(1). 2010, “Claiming Latino Space.” In Insurgent Public Space: Guerrilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities, J. Hou, Ed., London: Routledge. 2008, “The Limits of New Urbanism in Post-disaster Planning” The Case of East Biloxi.” Batture: The LSU School of Architecture Journal, Volume 4. 2008. “From Environmental Racism to Civic Environmentalism.” in Partnerships for Empowerment: Participatory Research for Community-based Natural Resource Management. C. Wilmsen, W. Elmendorf, L. Fisher, J. Ross, B. Sarathy, & G. Well, Eds., London: Earthscan. Lynne Horiuchi Forthcoming. "Inventing Homelands in Japanese American Concentration Camps." In Commemoration and the American City, edited by E. G. and David W. Gobel and Daves Rossell. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, forthcoming. 2008. “Contesting Traditions in Japanese American Concentration Camps,” 2008-2009 Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Working Paper Series, The International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments, vol. 216. 2008. "Mine Okubo’s Citizen 13660 and Trek Artwork: Relating Space, Movement, Image, and Text to Sites of Production," In Following Her Own Road: The Life and Art of Mine Okubo, edited by Greg and Elena Tajima Creef Robinson. Seattle: University of Washington Press, p. 111-30. 2008. “Coming and Going in the Western Addition: Japanese, Japanese Americans, and African Americans,” special edition, “Topographies of Race and Gender: Mapping Cultural Representations,” Part 1, eds. Patricia Hilden, Timothy Reiss, and Shari Huhndorf. Annals of Scholarship, 17:3, p. 33-67.

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2007. “Object Lessons in Homebuilding: Racialized Real Estate Marketing in San Francisco,” Race and Landscape theme issue edited by Dianne Harris in Landscape Journal, 26:1(Spring 2007): 61-82. 2000. “Dislocations: The Built Environments of Japanese American Internment” in Guilt by Association. Edited by Mike Mackey. Powell, Wyoming: Western History Publications, 2000. 1991. Turning Leaves: The Photograph Collections of Two Japanese American Families by Richard Chalfen. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Romola Sanyal 2011, Squatting in Camps: Building and Insurgency in Spaces of Refuge. Urban Studies 48(5), 877-890. 2009, Contesting Refugeehood: Squatting as Survival in Post-Partition Calcutta. Social Identities 15(1), 67-84. 2004, Poverty as a 'Theme Park': Christian Norms and Philanthropic Forms of Habitat for Humanity. Traditional Dwellings and Settlements Review 15(2), 19-31. ________________________________________________________________________Week 10: Student Presentations Dates: November 11 Required readings to be completed by Friday “Think,” Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2007) Workshop: Student Presentation and Wes Janz Workshop _______________________________________________________________________Week 11: Student Presentations Dates: November 18 Required readings to be completed by Friday “Act,” Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2007) Workshop: Student Presentations ________________________________________________________________________ Week 12: THANKSGIVING Dates: November 25 ________________________________________________________________________ Week 13: Thesis Statements and Project Analysis Dates: December 2 Required readings to be completed by Friday “Formal Reports,” Ernest T. Stringer, Action Research, (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, Inc., 2007)

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Workshop: Documentation, Sketching, and Diagramming Workshop ________________________________________________________________________Week 14: Project Documentation, Final touches and Q&A Dates: December 9 No Readings ________________________________________________________________________