哈佛建筑硕士课程Graduate Courses
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Graduate Courses ARCH 200A (Atherton | Choksombatchai | Steinfeld) Architectural Design Studio (3) Eight hours of studio per week. Credit option: 200A must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis. 200B must be taken for a letter grade. Introductory course in architectural design and theories for graduate students. Problems emphasize the major format, spatial, material, tectonic, social, technological, and environmental determinants of building form. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings, and field trips.
ARCH 200C (Steinfeld) Representational Practice in Architectural Design (3) Three hours of seminar per week. Credit option: 200C must be taken in conjunction with 200A. This course will address three distinct levels of representational practice in architectural design: 1) cultivate an understanding of the foundational discourse and diversity of approaches to architectural representation; 2) develop a fluency in the canonical methods found in architectural practice; 3) encourage the development of a personal relationship to forms of modeling and formats of drawing.
ARCH 202 SEC 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 (de Monchaux | Gastil | Anderson | Videmsky) Advanced Option Studio: "Dense Ecologies/City and Bay" (5) Eight hours of studio per week. Focused design and research as the capstone project for graduate students.
Extended Course Description
The Bay can be viewed as a geographic paradox: a place and void. The collective “Bay” (composed of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay and Suisun Bay) both unites and divides the community of the Bay Area, giving identity to a region, while separating its populace. The Bay is a back space, where the hardened surfaces of the industrial city crumble into the water, as well as a shore front with designed parks and recreational marinas. It is intensely visited in places, and nearly inaccessible in others. Its beauty acclaimed, its dumping grounds unparalleled. Its sparkling water refreshed from Sierra snowmelt, its sewer outfalls and urban runoff robust. Once intensely militarized, it is now, just as intensely, demilitarized. In a sense, the Bay is a natural entity, borne of great rivers, draining the entire Central Valley of California, however, every inch of its shoreline today is the product of human activity, by either intent, or incident. If the Bay itself is a paradox, then its edges delimit the margins of contradiction. — Matthew Coolidge / CLUI 2001.1
What’s that stinky creek out there / Down behind the slum’s back stair / Sludgy puddle, sad and gray? / Why man, that’s San Francisco Bay. — Pete Seeger, 1982.2
„Our challenge is to stop thinking of [man and nature] according to a set of bipolar moral scales in which the human and the nonhuman, the unnatural and the natural, the fallen and the unfallen, serve as our conceptual map for understanding and valuing the world. Instead, we need to embrace the full continuum of a natural landscape that is also cultural, in which the city, the suburb, the pastoral, and the wild each has its proper place, which we permit ourselves to celebrate without needlessly denigrating the others„ — William Cronon, “The Trouble with Wilderness,” 1996.3
Introduction From the effects of hydraulic mining in the 19th century, through the combined effects of bay fill in the 20th, to the de-industrialized (and often demilitarized) brownfields of the early 21st, the San Francisco Bay is an exemplary crucible of the often-fraught relationship between cities and the larger ecology that support them. And as the margin’s of today’s bay begin to be returned to a “natural” state through extensive man-made remediation, we seek to question whether the bay can also be a new vessel, of a new kind of relationship between cities and ecologies; one that emphasizes the reciprocal nature of the relationship between urban civilization and natural wild, and avoids oversimplification and image-making in favor of the real complexities of cities and landscapes developing together. As noted by William Cronon above, a skeptical attitude about ‘Nature’ is not at all a rejection of the ideals of sustainability and ecological survival; rather, it might be vital to them.
Through parallel investigations of multiple sites at the periphery of bay and city, the 202a studios will engage the latest thinking in urban
