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1 LANDed ARC credits Materials and Tectonics : Travel Summer 2013 Professor Gail Peter Borden The work is not put in a place, it is that place DISCUSSION: PLACE - PERCEPTION - MATERIAL The locating of architecture within its surroundings is a spiritual process of designing a piece of architecture. The definition of place requires the discovery of a dialogue between the ceremonies of man and the processes of nature. It is a process of understanding site, landscape, materiality and the body s mechanisms for perception to define ritual. These rituals often dominate and define the foreground of our daily activities. The natural condition is an external as well as internal experience. Perception is not determined only by the physical presence of one s surroundings, but is equally dependent upon the mechanisms of perception itself: the body. Our physical selves and the perceptual abilities of our bodies are these we must unlock, understand and come into tune with. The focus of this travel course will be to examine iconic projects and sites focused on the synthetic relation of a constructed space with the natural sensibilities. Weaving a perceptual understanding of the natural condition with the opportunity to address, focus and thus heighten these phenomena will be essential. THE COURSE: This course will require a multifaceted understanding of a designer s relationship with material and land: site. Looking at Land Art as a base genre, the course will overlay spiritual and intellectual spaces upon regional desert landscapes. The course will require the discovery of an attitude towards site and place balanced by the ceremony of perception. Looking at natural process through key pieces of LAND Art and regional southwest architecture, students will start the course with background research followed by two weeks of travel. A road trip will allow access to diverse projects and places framed by their relationship of natural and man made systems: Expected trajectory of sites to be visited will include: [each city will have a series of site visits of significant architecture and office trips] Pre - Preparations Day 1 - [1] Desert Ecology / Geology [2] Cultural / Historical development of the West Day 2 - [3] Land Art: Architectural [4] Utopias Day 3 - [5] Material West + Logistics Precedent Presentations Travel Day 1 - travel Tucson - Rick Joy [office, house x2] Day 2 - Tucson airplane bone yard Day 3 - Phoenix Will Bruder [library, office, house] Day 4 - Phoenix Taliesin West Arcosanti night Day 5 - Arcosanti Montezuma Castle Roden Crater Grand Canyon night Day 6 - Grand Canyon - [FREE DAY] Day 7 - Chaco Canyon Day 8 - Acoma Pueblo Black Mesa Lightening Field night Day 9 - Albuquerque - Bart Prince, [office and 2 houses] Day 10 - Very Large Array, Santa Fe Star Axis night Day 11 - travel Chinati and Judd Foundation Day 12 - Chinati and Judd Foundation Day 13 - travel to El Paso - return flight to LA Post - Reflective Day 1 - analytical presentations + portable landscapes [mobile place] Travel will take approximately two weeks. Movement would be in one large rental van - so students maximum plus gear. Accommodations would be a combination of camping and hotels/motels as appropriate. Advance arrangement with each of the offices and foundations would be made to ensure access. pre-preparations Wednesday May 15 - Friday May 17 trip Sunday May 19 - Friday May 31 [13 days] post-reflective Monday June 3 companion studio June 17-Aug 5

SITE VISITS WILL INCLUDE: Rick Joy Office Airplane Boneyard Will Bruder Office Taliesin West Arcosanti Montezuma Castle Roden Crater Grand Canyon Chaco Canyon Acoma

2 SITE VISITS WILL INCLUDE: Rick Joy Office Airplane Boneyard Will Bruder Office Taliesin West Arcosanti Montezuma Castle Roden Crater Grand Canyon Chaco Canyon Acoma Pueblo Black Mesa Lightening Field Bart Prince Office Antoine Predock Office Very Large Array Star Axis Chinati Foundation Judd Foundation Petrified Forest White Sands

3 RESEARCH + PRECEDENT + THEMES Minimalism Christo and Jean-Claude Carl Andre Walter De Maria Windows Running Fence Umbrellas Valley Curtain Secant Earth Room Inorganic Sculptures Donald Judd Concrete Boxes Marfa, TX 100 Aluminum Pieces Marfa Gordon Matta Clark Conical Intersect Complex I Robert Smithson Spiral Jetty Robert Morris Observatory The Land and the Site Richard Long Robert Smithson Inscriptions and Time Nancy Holt Richard Long Andy Goldsworthy James Turrell Mary Miss Walter De Maria Light and Perception James Turrell Richard Serra Dan Flavin Robert Irwin Double Negative Walking a Line in Peru Broken Circle/Spiral Hill Nonsite Essen Sun Tunnels River Avon Mud Hand Circles Rivers and Tides - various Roden Crater Pitts and Towers The Lightning Field Rift Isolated Mass/Circumflex Sky Rooms Torqued Ellipses Marfa Series Light Scrims LECTURES Desert Ecology / Geology - the natural landscape Cultural / Historical development of the West - Manifest Destiny and Westward Expansion and the legacy of the American Indian Land Art: Art of Place [Judd, Smithson, Heizer, Holt, Turrell, Miss] Architectural Utopias: Site Place Climate and Building in the American Southwest [Wright / Soleri / Bruder / Joy / Predock / Prince] Material West + Logistics: followed by the Case Study student presentations

4 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY: Earthworks Susan Boettger Earthworks [Chapter 2 - The Ground of Earthen Sculpture] Frances Colpitt Minimal Art from the Critical Perspective [Chapter 1 - Process Issues] Rosalind Krauss Sculpture in the Expanded Field 1973 Richard Serra Spin-Out '72-'73 for Bob Smithson 1973 Robert Smithson A Sedimentation of the Mind: Earth Projects 1968 James Turrell Mapping Spaces 1987 Andy Goldsworthy Stone [1994] Material + Process: Ed Allen Fundamentals of Building Construction (New Jersey: Wiley Press. 4 th edition. 2004) Victoria Ballard Bell Materials for Design Gail Peter Borden Material Precedent: The Typology of Modern Tectonics Blaine Brownell Transmaterial [I + II + III] Francis DK Ching Building Constructed Illustrated (Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York) Cecil D. Elliot Techniques and Architecture: The Development of Materials and Systems for Buildings. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992.) John Fernandez Material Architecture Thomas Jester Twentieth Century Building Materials Chris Lefteri Wood: Materials for Inspirational Design Toshiko Mori Immaterial/Ultra-Material Mostafavi and Leatherbarrow On Weathering: The Life of Buildings in Time. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1993.) Thomas Thiis-Evensen Archetypes in Architecture Richard Weston Material, Form and Architecture General Reference and Suggested Reading Stan Allen From Object to Field. (AD: Architecture after Geometry, Vol. 67 5/6. New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997, p ) Stan Allen Cecil Balmond Practice vs. Project (Praxis, v.1 n.0, New Orleans and New York: Praxis, Inc. 1999, p ) New Structure and the Informal. (Architectural Design. v.67, n.9-10, New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1997, p ) Roland Barthes Mythologies. (Hill and Wang: New York, 1972.) Walter Benjiman The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. (Illuminations. New York, Schocken Books, 1986.) Michel De Certeau Spatial Practices: Walking in the City, The Practice of Everyday Life. (Los Angeles: The University of California Press, 1984.) Robin Evans Translations from Drawing to Building. (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.) Peter Gay Sigfried Gidieon Gropius: The Imperatives of Craft. Art and Act: on Causes in History Manet, Gropius, Mondrian. The Assembly Line and Scientific Management. Mechanization Takes Command: A Contribution to Anonymous History. (New York: Norton, p ) Martin Heidegger The Question Concerning Technology. Basic Writings. (editor, David Farrel Krell. Harper & Row Publishers, p ) Larry A. Hickman John Dewey s Pragmatic Technology. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990.) Jeffrey Kipnis Sanford Kwinter Leo Marx Robert Maxwell Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe The Cunning of Cosmetics. (El Croquis. Herzog and de Meuron, v.60, p.84.) Architecture and the Technologies of Life. (AA Files p.3-4.) The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America. (London; New York: Oxford University Press, 1968.) Positive Futures: The Lure of Technology. The Two Way Stretch: Modernism, Tradition, and Innovation. (London: Academy Editions, p ) Architecture and Technology. The Artless World: Mies Van Der Rohe on the Building of Art. (editor/author Fritz Neumeyer. Cambridge: MIT Press, p ) Peter Testa Alvaro Siza. introductory essay. (Birkhauser, Verlag fur Architecture, Basel, 1996.) Charles Vallhonrat Tectonics Reconsidered. (Perspecta 24. New York: Rizzolli, 1988.) Mirko Zardini Skin, Wall, Facade. (Lotus International #82. September 1994, p )

5 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS Precedent Study Prior to the commencement of the travel component, there will be a series of preparatory lectures and precedent studies. Each student will be responsible for the research, analysis and presentation of their precedent prior to departure. Analytical Maps + Time/Space captures [Portable Landscapes] During travel, students will be expected to do analytical maps of the sites and experiences we accumulate. Done on, and between sites, they attempt a digestion of the visceral experiences of the visits. Roadside Makings As a responsive mechanism, students will do temporary roadside makings and collections. These [or their documentation] will culminate in a portable landscape, a mobile case containing the sites and experiences of the travel. Portfolio The portfolio will consist of the journal, [visual and textual] of the travel and will serve as an associated two-dimensional documentary and analysis complimenting the portable landscape. COURSE REQUIREMENTS Grading Final grade evaluations for this studio will be based on the following breakdown: Attendance and participation 10% Precedent Study 20% Analytical Maps + Time/Space captures [Portable Landscapes] 30% Roadside Makings 30% Portfolio 10% Attendance: Because essential course materials and concepts are discussed during studio time, attendance at all preparatory meetings, class lectures and reviews is essential and required. Due to the short nature of the schedule, more than one absences during the course of the semester will jeopardize successful completion of the course and will certainly reflect negatively in the student s final course grade. Statement for Students with Disabilities: Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register with the Disability Services Programs (DSP) each semester. A letter of verification for approved accommodations can be obtained from DSP. Please be sure the letter is delivered to me as early in the semester as possible. DSP is located in STU 301 and is open from 8:30 5:00, Monday through Friday. The phone number fro DSP is (213) Statement on Academic Integrity USC seeks to maintain an optimal learning environment. General principles of academic honesty include the concept of respect for the intellectual property of others, the expectation that individual work will be submitted unless otherwise allowed by an instructor, and the obligations both to protect one s own academic work from misuse by others as well as to avoid using another s work as one s own. All students are expected to understand and abide by these principles. Scampus, the Student Guidebook, contains the Student Conduct Code in Section 11.00, while the recommended sanctions are located in Appendix A: Students will be referred to the Office of Student Judicial Affairs and Community Standards for further review, should there be any suspicion of academic dishonesty. The Review process can be found at:

IDENTITY IN LANDSCAPE: THE AMERICAN WEST AND ITS RELATION TO THE CREATION OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE

IDENTITY IN LANDSCAPE: THE AMERICAN WEST AND ITS RELATION TO THE CREATION OF ARCHITECTURAL SPACE Roger Bailey Traveling Fellowship Application University of Utah College of Architecture + Planning School of Architecture June 2, 2014 Jarrett Moe 1641 Pheasant Way Park City, UT 84098 C. 435 640 6850