Students will be introduced to the history of archaeology and the development of archaeological fieldwork. This course examines the theory and practice of city design-how, throughout history, people have sought to mold and shape cities in pre-determined ways. Courses in the minor may not be double counted with the student's major(s) or with other minors. What opportunities emerge as we rethink them? 100 Units. ARCH 28202. Beginning in the early 1880s, architectural pioneers of the Chicago School explored steel-frame construction and, in the 1890s, the use of large areas of plate glass. Against this backdrop, the course will show how science, and physics in particular, delivers the conceptual foundations that drive current directions in architecture and open up new opportunities. Materials for drawing and making will be provided. 100 Units. Paris from "Les Misérables" to the Liberation, c. 1830-1950. ARCH 24660. We are committed teachers and student mentors, boasting twenty winners of the Quantrell Prize, the University of Chicago's highest honor for teaching. Architecture ssa was designed by one of chicago's most celebrated architects, ludwig mies van der rohe. Geographic Information Science I. Prerequisite(s): Some exposure to high-school physics is recommended Lists of past and current courses that have already been approved for program credit are posted on the departmental website for the architectural studies minor. The format is a discussion seminar based on readings, assignments, virtual visits and meetings with guest speakers. "Social distance," while a short-term public health imperative, is antithetical to the very idea of the urban. Social Theory of the City. Although it is designed to introduce the fundamentals of architectural history to undergraduates seeking a minor in architectural studies, MA and PhD students in any field are also welcome to register. Note(s): Not offered Winter 2021 Architecture at the University of Chicago. The methods will be illustrated by means of open source software such as QGIS and R. Instructor(s): M. Kolak     Terms Offered: Spring. A defining movement in the history of European culture and civilization, the Renaissance is best known for its rediscovery of classical antiquity, its achievements in the arts, literature, philosophy, exploration etc., as well as for the rise of a modern sense of self. As students complete the minor, they and the Architectural Studies Advisor will track their progress, including any changes to their initial plan, on the Architectural Studies Minor Worksheet, available for download on the Art History website. 100 Units. Carl Wilbur Condit (Cincinnati, Ohio, September 29, 1914 – January 4, 1997) was an American historian of urban and architectural history, a writer, professor, and teacher. The University’s first buildings were modeled after the English Gothic architectural style used at Oxford, complete with towers, spires, cloisters, and grotesques. This course meets the general education requirement in the arts. Drawing together ethnographies of heritage, theories of history and art, and accounts of dispossession and destruction, we will examine heritage as a conceptual formation, a set of social, political, and economic practices, and as a locus of both enchantment and endangerment. it was completed in 1965 during a period when the university was expanding. Please make sure you've built enough time into your schedule to get to and from meeting locations. 915 E 60th St. Chicago, IL 60637 773.702.2787. Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 26005, ENST 26005, PBPL 26005. In 2015, 9 students graduated in the study area of Architectural History And Criticism with students earning 7 Master's degrees, and 2 Bachelor's degrees. Equivalent Course(s): GEOG 28602, GEOG 38602. This course examines the spatial organization and current restructuring of modern cities in light of the economic, social, cultural, and political forces that shape them. Students will research, outline, draft, revise, and ultimately produce a well-crafted piece of journalistic writing for publication in the program's new annual magazine. Architectural structures form the built environment around us and in many ways create the backbone of our civilization. Instructor(s): M. Garrido     Terms Offered: Spring Architecture of Memory. Get views of Chicago’s most famous buildings, as well as insider info from an expert guide, on this architecture-focused cruise. Pandemics, Urban Space, and Public Life. After a series of short design exercises, you will work in groups to design a proposal for a new library for Chicago, on a real site that you choose. How do past perspectives on cities compare with contemporary ones? Drawing and the Making of Architecture. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York, once the loftiest office tower in the world, in order to make way for a taller skyscraper. Equivalent Course(s): ENST 16603, ANTH 26115, CLCV 24119, HIST 16603. In VISUALIZING THE CITY, we reclaim the mandate to "make the unseen seen" by taking the cliche literally: we will restore the potential of excellent visual communication in the context of urban and environmental studies, culminating in the production of a print and online magazine for the program. William Rainey Harper Memorial Library, West Tower, room 608 – Office (773) 702-7940 – Office telephone (773) 702-7550 – Fax. Visit UChicago; Tours; The University of Chicago; Facebook Twitter Email Share. Instructor(s): Greg Valdespino     Terms Offered: Winter Islamic Art and Architecture 1500-1900. That way your private groups can experience a South Side tour, exploring the Hyde Park neighborhood, historic Washington Park, and see President Obama’s house. Terms Offered: Spring 100 Units. Instructor(s): C. Jones     Terms Offered: Spring Over the time span covered by the course, the United States became an indisputably "schooled" society, and Chicago was a leading indicator of national trends. 100 Units. Starting with the grim and dysfunctional city described in Victor Hugo's "Les Misérables," the course will examine the history of Paris over the period in which it became viewed as the city par excellence of urban modernity through to the testing times of Nazi occupation and then liberation (c. 1830-1950). ARCH 17002. Equivalent Course(s): GNSE 23128, CRES 23128, HIST 29506. Prerequisite(s): Some knowledge of Latin America or urban studies helpful. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 28202 /GEOG 38202. 100 Units. Prerequisite(s): GEOG 38202 and GEOG 38402. Instructor(s): Emily Talen     Terms Offered: Autumn This course is a formal investigation of these curved forms and plastic shapes, and aims to develop critical understanding of formal issues underlying their use, construction and intention. The Illinois School of Architecture is one of the oldest and largest schools of architecture in the country. One of the courses may be ARTH 29600 Junior Seminar: Doing Art History. 100 Units. Looting and repatriation-linked to archaeology's complex history and of equal concern to contemporary anthropology-force us to contend with the very meaning of heritage, including why it matters, what it does, and to whom it rightfully belongs. ARCH 24197. The collaborative plan to create a Calumet National Heritage Area that touches aspects of environmental conservation, economic development, cultural heritage, recreation, arts, and education will ground this course's exploration of landscape history and landscape planning in the Calumet region. Students will ultimately conduct a final research project on a topic of their choosing to explore this courses' themes in depth. The University of Chicago. Cities, Space, Power: Introduction to urban social science. ARCH 20104. 100 Units. Prerequisite(s): Students must attend several panels of their choice during the conference entitled, “What They Brought / What They Changed: Material Culture and Polish Chicago,” on December 2-4, 2020. Students must receive a grade of C or higher in GEOG 28402/GEOG 38402 in order to register for this course. ARCH 20185. Schools and Space: A Chicago History. Instructor(s): Evan Carver     Terms Offered: Autumn This critical zone is both a space of inquiry and topic of concern, crossing geophysical and disciplinary boundaries. Interested students should email the instructor, Geoffrey Goldberg (geoffreyg@me.com) to briefly explain their interest, and if possible, outline any previous design experience, whether manual or digital. It relies on a foundation of coursework in Art History complemented by up to three courses on architectural or urban topics from any other department. Instructor(s): M. Felsen     Terms Offered: Winter This course reviews competing theories of urban development, especially their ability to explain the changing nature of cities under the impact of advanced industrialism. Search Prospective Student Information. Mesoamerican Architecture. ARCH 27708. Writing the City. This seminar explores various historical, sociological and anthropological theories of cities. Instructor(s): B. Fischer     Terms Offered: Winter This course provides an introduction and overview of how spatial thinking is translated into specific methods to handle geographic information and the statistical analysis of such information. Instructor(s): L. Joyner     Terms Offered: Winter In order to grasp the status of such changes, students take several field trips to the former Polish neighborhoods and visit their existing architectural landmarks and cultural institutions. This course fuses urban and educational history into a two-century case study of Chicago. But this episode was part of a longer regional history of how metropolitan development, labor markets, and anxieties over migration affected educational policy. Instructor(s): Bożena Shallcross      Terms Offered: Winter The following faculty members in art history specialize in architectural history: Niall Atkinson, Wei-Cheng Lin, and Katherine Fischer Taylor. Introduction to GIS and Spatial Analysis. Explore Our Building Database. With degree programs in the visual arts, design, theatre and music, architecture, and art history, CADA is the only place in Chicago where one can prepare for a career in the arts and design within a major research university. To do this, students will use open source or free software such as QGIS and Google Earth Pro to complete GIS lab exercises that cover a range of topics, including an introduction to different types of geospatial data, geographic measurement, GIS, principles of cartography, remote sensing, basic GIS mapping and spatial analysis techniques, remote sensing, and specific geospatial applications such as 3D modeling and geodesign. ARCH 27307. For more than a century, art historians at the University of Chicago have made transformative interventions in the discipline. Further, they expressed their complex relations with each other through art and architecture. In the 1909 "Plan for Chicago" Daniel Burnham proposed to reclaim the entire length of the lakefront as a place of leisure for all inhabitants of the city-an idea realized during the 20th century. How can film be understood as a tool for exploring what a city is? Graduate seminars at the 40000-level may count toward requirements. Prospective minors should meet with the Architectural Studies Advisor sometime before the end of the third year to discuss their interests and course plans, and to obtain advice and approval. 850 BCE-850 CE) and an overview of the range of different intellectual and scientific approaches by which scholars have engaged with the city and its legacy. The University of Chicago—or "Grey City"—was emerging simultaneously with and in close proximity to the the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition—the White City—on the south side of Chicago in the late 19th century. The focus is on research questions relevant in the social sciences, which inspires the selection of the particular methods that are covered. Cochrane-Woods Art Center, photography by David Hartt, 2015 . Yet, an excessive reliance on motorized modes of transport harms population health, the environment, and social well-being. Attendance at Thursday lectures is required. This University of Chicago campus architecture walking tour can also be customized to include vehicle transport, such as sedan or coach. Students will reflect on readings about the South Side and 2020 events. At the end of this course, students will have honed their ability to analyze architectural space and its representations, and to write cogently about what they see. Cities on Screen. Offered 2020-21 Equivalent Course(s): AMER 27021, REES 37021, CHST 27021, ANTH 25423, REES 27021, ANTH 35423. When the Chicago Public Schools closed fifty schoolhouses in 2013, many stressed the links between public education, uneven neighborhood investment, and racial segregation. Instructor(s): M. Kolak     Terms Offered: Spring. Opened in Fall 2018, the Center for the Art and Architectural History of Port Cities / Centro per la Storia dell’Arte e dell’Architettura delle Città Portuali is a collaboration between the Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte in Naples and the Edith O’Donnell Institute of Art History at the University of Texas at Dallas, with the participation of the Université Paris-Sorbonne. A collaboration between the Chicago History Museum, the Newberry Library, and Northwestern University Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals (1934-present, with selective records dating to the 1860s): Articles and book reviews on architecture, interior design, city planning and individual architects. Reqmt. It is the student's responsibility to obtain this signature and to submit the form. We will explore how Catholic Native Potawatomi women decorated their homes in the early 18th century, how black South African maids interacted with white employers during apartheid, and how young male refugees in contemporary France try to make homes in the land of their former colonial ruler. A long succession of renowned Chicago architects and structural engineers has turned this city into a premier laboratory for architectural innovation. Throughout this hands-on course, students will explore theories of visuality and visual communication and then apply various visualization tools to document, analyze, and communicate aspects of the built environment. Books in Architecture: History of Architecture published or distributed by the University of Chicago Press. Students must attend first class to confirm enrollment. The Art History, Architecture Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago on Academia.edu This is not a course to learn a specific GIS software program, but the goal is to learn how to think about spatial aspects of research questions, as they pertain to how the data are collected, organized and transformed, and how these spatial aspects affect statistical methods. Equivalent Course(s): ITAL 23321, ENST 23321, ARTH 23321. In the spring of 1910 hundreds of workers labored day and night to demolish the Gillender Building in New York, once the loftiest office tower in the world, in order to make way for a taller skyscraper. Students will work to challenge notions of home as an idyllic or a historical space and see the power and struggles that took place within walls. a new paper on a topic chosen in consultation with the instructor. 100 Units. This course meets the general education requirement in the physical sciences and may be paired with PHSC 11600, 11700, 12600, or 13400 in order to complete the requirement. From the juxtaposition of Southern and Northern cities in pre and post-Great Migration literature, to Gwendolyn Brooks' mid-century experiments in urban seeing, Spike Lee's staged urban explosions and Kendrick Lamar's Compton soundscapes, this course complicates both the dreams and the despairs yoked to being black in the city. Interested students should email the instructor (Nootan Bharani, nbharani@uchicago.edu) to briefly explain their interest and any previous experience with the course topics, however no previous experience is necessary. Students will have the opportunity to propose design or policy interventions to help their own communities cope with the present coronavirus/COVID-19 crisis as it is unfolding and to return to post-pandemic life more vibrant than ever. It could equally complement a major in the sciences, such as medical fields, ecology, geology, physics, or mathematics. ARCH 20805. Students will learn about the elements of spatial algorithms and data structures, geospatial topologies, spatial data queries, and the basics of geodatabase architecture and design. As well as focussing on architecture and the built environment, we will examine the political, social, and especially cultural history of the city. But the motive for establishing this sovereign territory was hardly natural. Instructor(s): Evan Carver     Terms Offered: Winter. Special attention will be given to representing 2- and 3-dimensional space (i.e., cartography and drafting). Instructor(s): C. Rocha     Terms Offered: Spring With degree programs in the visual arts, design, theatre and music, architecture, and art history, the college is the only place in Chicago where one can prepare for a career in the arts and design within a major research university. This studio course invites students to devise new techniques for imaging the vivosphere: the fragile and reactive film of interactions that sustain human and non-human life around the surface of the earth. Instructor(s): Evan Carver     Terms Offered: Winter For more information about the minor in architectural studies, please contact the Architectural Studies Advisor, Katherine Fischer Taylor, at k-taylor@uchicago.edu. The course surveys a broad range of research traditions from across the social sciences, as well as the work of urban planners, architects, and environmental scientists. Thematically, the class will focus on the issue of space and the relationship between authors and the built environment. The interplay between humans and built environments has been a central object of anthropological inquiry since the emergence of the discipline in the 19th century. In the first two decades of the 21st century, the number of buildings that have been built or are under construction represent 40 percent as many buildings as were constructed during the entire prior history of the University. This work will be accompanied by discussion of formal issues, including positive and negative space, boundaries, interiority, and distinction between curved surfaces and volumes. Chicago Architecture: one story at a time. Following the opening of the University of Chicago in 1892 and the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, the neighborhood became known as a retreat for the wealthy intellectual community. This course follows fundamental questions around the emergence of this discourse: Which tropes, materials, and concepts do we collectively use to imagine our future? Offered 2020-21 Students in this course will receive an introduction to the archaeology and history of the city from the Iron Age to the early medieval period (ca. 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