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ARCH-680AP Geologies and Landscapes

3 Credits

  • ARCH-680AP-MX1

    Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

    9:00 am – 4:00 pm

    Off Campus, CAMP

This summer elective course is the first in a sequence titled The Americas Project, a multi year program of travel to investigate the relationship between the public sphere and architecture, landscape, and urban design in our region of the globe.The Americas Project posits that landscape can best be understood by looking locally. Each course in the series is charged with examining the relationship between landscape in the American hemisphere,with a particular focus on the relationship between American landscapes and the publics it both hosts and foments.Every iteration will identify a corpus of landscapes terrains, geologies, public spaces, both built and unbuilt that are ostensibly American, and form the core of the travel itinerary. Regardless of scale or type these will be systematically studied through a program of drawing. The drawings will argue for a relationship between the literal, concrete artifacts of landscape and the imaginary of an American public. They will ask, what is landscapes public? How does landscape foment and mobilize these publics? The product of each travel season will be a series of documentary and analytical drawings contributed to a published Atlas of a New America.