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1 USC SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE GLOBAL STUDIES: TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM, HISTORY, AND ART ARCH 406 SPRING :30 20:20 THU January 12, 2017 COURSE OBJECTIVES: This course is an introduction to the critical study of the urban environment, both built form and the urban landscape. This course will investigate how they are formed, their morphology, evolution and mutations, examining urban phenomena, within the context of evolution over time, and contemporary forces of globalism. As this is a prerequisite course for students planning to attend the Asia Architecture, Landscape, and Urbanism (AALU) semester study abroad program. Cities across geographic and global boundaries are vibrant and complex ecologies. Their contradictory configurations and manifestations must be understood as active and provocative participants in the complex collision between historic urban formal structure, contemporary developments, socio- economic phenomena, and experiments of modernism and urban life. As man- made objects, cities and the urban landscape are formed through a complex intersection of their history; economic conditions; political, social, and cultural context; and contemporary urban design forces. While the traditional study of the city had its historic roots in Western civilization, the current trajectory of the evolution and formation of the Asian cities, such as Tokyo, Seoul, Shanghai, and other quickly developing areas of China, offer another perspective. They offer a great opportunity for cross- sectional understanding of city genealogies and mutations that are, in some cases, based on Western counterparts, but in all cases are heavily based on economic, political, and cultural forces within each region. Research at the Urban Age Project show that in 1900, only 10% of the world population lived in cities; 50% is living in cities in 2007 and it is projected that 75% of the world s population will live in cities by Currently the momentum of new city formation rests within China, and a study of new city formation in China should be undertaken through a comparative analysis of urbanism and planning movements within Japan and Europe 60 years ago, and seen through this global lens for the purpose of comparative analysis and cross referencing. With the continued global population growth, and ever increasing international cross pollination, cities throughout the globe will continue to influence each other and become a great common denominator governing our future existence from the developed nations to the developing, making them no longer only the subject of planners and architects but society at large. COURSE STRUCTURE: The course will consist of two primary activities: a research/documentation project, and weekly assigned readings with discussion and written synopsis. Research and documentation will consist of the critical analysis of 7 cities in Asia; Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. Study, analysis, and research of these important cities in Japan, Korea, and China are to develop a fundamental foundation of understanding of these cities, as they will be the cities, which the study abroad program will be based and visit. The research and analysis is intended to offer a critical framework for an understanding of these cities and its urban landscape as both object and subject contributing to the cultural milieu of these places. The ARCH 406 Spring 2017 HAKOMORI 1/12/17 1

2 second component of the course will be readings, with discussion and written synopsis. Required reading(s) each week are outlined in the schedule below. It will be the responsibility of the student to complete a written reading response or synopsis of words for each required reading(s) and will be required to be submitted at the beginning of the class for which the reading is due. Please come prepared to discuss the articles and topics covered in the reading(s). There will be a final blue book exam (open book) related to the articles and lectures given throughout the semester. COURSE SCHEDULE Revised January 24, 2014 Week 01 Jan 12 Course Introduction Introduce Research Project: Mapping the Urban Landscape: Tokyo, Kyoto, Kobe, Seoul, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Beijing. URBANISM - HISTORIC PERSPECTIVES Week 02 Jan 19 Bacon, Edmund, Design of Cities, Penguin Books (New York: 1967), pp Rossi, Aldo, Introduction Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City, in The Architecture of the City, The MIT Press (Cambridge, MA: 1984), pp Nolli Map a 1748 Map of Rome The Interactive Nolli Map ( Lecture What is Urbanism? Week 03 Jan 26 Week 04 Feb 02 Week 05 Feb 09 : Kostof, Spiro, Introduction: The City as Artifact, in The City Shaped Urban Patterns and Meanings Through History, Thames and Hudson LTD (London: 1991), pp Review Research Project : Rowe, Colin, Koetter, Fred, Crisis of the Object: Predicament of Texture, in Collage City, The MIT Press (Cambridge, MA: 1984), pp Lecture Modern City Planning Lynch, Kevin, The City Image and It s Elements, in Kevin Lynch, The Image of the City, Joint Center for Urban Studies (Cambridge, MA:1960), pp Review Research Project Week 06 Feb 16 Allen, Stan, From Object to Field, in AD Architecture after Geometry, Profile No. 127, John Wiley& Sons, LTD (London: 1997), pp Mid- Review of Research Project - Mapping the Urban Landscape Task 1 LANDSCAPE - URBANISM ARCH 406 Spring 2017 HAKOMORI 1/12/17 2

3 Week 07 Feb 23 McHarg, Ian, Nature in the Metropolis, in Design with Nature, (New York: Wiley, 1969) pp Olmsted, Frederick Law, Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns, in Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout, eds., The City Reader, Routledge (New York: 1996), pp Week 08 Mar 02 Mostafavi, Mohsen, Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now? in Ecological Urbanism, Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty, eds., Lars Muller Publishers(Baden, Switzerland: 2010) pp Koolhaas, Rem, What Ever Happened to Urbanism?, in OMA, Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, S,M,L,XL, Moncacelli Press (New York:1995) pp Lecture Ecological Urbanism Corner, James, Terra Fluxus, in Charles Waldheim, ed., The Landscape Urbanism Reader, Princeton Architectural Press (New York: 2006) pp Week 09 Mar 09 Week 10 Mar 16 JAPAN Week 11 Mar 23 MID- TERM PRESENTATION: MAPPING THE URBAN LANDSCAPE ** DUE Mapping the Urban Landscape Task 1 City Scale Phenomenon ** Assign Mapping the Urban Landscape Task 2 SPRING BREAK / NO CLASS MARCH 12 MARCH 19 Inoue, Mitsuo, From Geometrical Space to Movement Space, Space in Japanese Architecture, Wheatherhill, Inc. (New York and Tokyo:1985) pp Lecture: Traditional Japanese Architecture Tanizaki, Junichiro, In Praise of Shadows, Leete s Island Books (Sedgwick, ME: 1977). Week 12 Mar 30 Ohno, Hidetoshi, Tokyo 2050: Fibercity, in The Japan Architect, vol. 63, Autumn 2006, Shinkenchiku- sha Co.Ltd. (Tokyo: 2006). Bharne, Vinayak, "Manifesting Democracy: Public Space and the Search for Identity in Post- War Japan, Journal of Architectural Education, Vol. 63, Issue 2, Changing Asia, March 2010 Lecture The Embrace of Western Modernism ARCH 406 Spring 2017 HAKOMORI 1/12/17 3

4 Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu, Escaping the Spiral of Intolerance: Fourth Generation Houses and Void Metabolism, in Tokyo Metabolizing, Koh Kitayama, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Ryue Nishizawa, TOTO Publishing (Tokyo: 2010) pp Kaijima, Momoyo, Kuroda, Junzo, Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu, Made In Tokyo, Kajima Institute Publishing Co. Ltd., (Tokyo: 2001). Week 13 Apr 06 CHINA Week 14 Apr 13 Caballero, Jorge Almazán, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Tokyo Public Space Networks at the Intersection of the Commercial and the Domestic Realms Study on Dividual Space, Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, vol.5 no.2 November Caballero, Jorge Almazán, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Tokyo Public Space Networks at the Intersection of the Commercial and the Domestic Realms (Part II) Study on Urban Content Space, Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, vol.6 no.1 May Caballero, Jorge Almazán, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, Tokyo Public Space Networks at the Intersection of the Commercial and the Domestic Realms (Part III) Study on Transit Urban Centers, Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, vol.8 no.2 November Lecture Hybridity in Japanese Urbanism Wu, Fulong, Beyond gradualism: China s urban revolution and emerging cities, in Fulong Wu s China s Emerging Cities: The Making of New Urbanism, Routledge (New York: 2001), pp Review Research Project Task 2 Week 15 Apr 20 Week 16 Apr 21 Chen, Caroline, "Dancing in the Streets in Beijing: Improvised Uses within the Urban System," in Insurgent Public Space: Guerilla Urbanism and the Remaking of Contemporary Cities, edited by Jeffrey Hou, (London: Routledge, 2010) pp Lecture - Shanghai Hulshof, Michael, Roggeveen, Daan, How the City Moved to Mr. Sun, in How the City Moved to Mr. Sun, China s New Megacities, Sun Architectural Publishers (Amsterdam: 2011), pp Review Research Project Task 2 Week 17 Apr 27 Week 18 FINAL PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH PROJECT ** DUE Mapping the Urban Landscape Task 2 / Neighborhood Scale ** Final Exam May 03 May 10, Date to be Determined Blue Book Essay Exam Open Book GRADING: Grading breakdown will be as follows: ARCH 406 Spring 2017 HAKOMORI 1/12/17 4

5 Attendance: 10% Discussion: 10% Reading Synopsis 20% Research Project - Mid- Term: 20% Research Project - Final: 20% Final Essay Exam 20% GENERAL REFERENCE TEXT BOOK: Bacon, Edmund, Design of Cities, Penguin Books (New York: 1967) GENERAL REFERENCE WEBSITES: Urban Age age.net/ London School of Economics (LSE) Cities Program NAAB ACCREDITATION: The USC School of Architecture s five year BARCH degree and the two- year M.ARCH degree are accredited professional architectural degree programs. All students can access and review the NAAB Conditions of Accreditation (including the Student Performance Criteria) on the NAAB Website, COURSE POLICIES: 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: affairs/sjacs/. TURNITIN REVIEW: ARCH 406 Spring 2017 HAKOMORI 1/12/17 5

6 Plagiarism, the copying of any work in whole or in part without citation, will not be tolerated. If plagiarism is committed by any student and is confirmed by the instructor, the student will receive an F grade for the assignment, and possibly the course. The severity of the violation will also determine whether the student is reported to the appropriate University offices for further sanctions. Students will be required to submit Final Degree Project Papers to Turnitin review on the USC Blackboard system. ATTENDANCE: Attending classes is a basic responsibility of every USC student who is enrolled in courses at the School of Architecture. The School of Architecture s general absence policy is to allow a student to miss the equivalent of one week of class sessions, for Arch 406 this means one class, without directly affecting the student s grade and ability to complete the course (this is for excused absences for any confirmed personal illness/family emergency/religious observance or for any unexcused absences). For each absence over that allowed number, the student s letter grade can be lowered up to one full letter grade. If additional absences are required for a personal illness/family emergency/religious observance, the situation should be discussed and evaluated with the faculty member and appropriate Chair on a case- by- case basis. All students should understand that any false representation of their attendance is grounds to be considered for a violation of ethics before the University. Any student not in class within the first 10 minutes is considered tardy, and any student absent (in any form including sleep, technological distraction, or by leaving mid class for a long bathroom/water break) for more than 1/3 of the class time can be considered fully absent. Each tardy class counts as half an absence. If arriving late, a student must be respectful of a class in session and do everything possible to minimize the disruption caused by a late arrival. It is always the student s responsibility to seek means (if possible) to make up work missed due to absences, not the instructor s, although such recourse is not always an option due to the nature of the material covered. Being absent on the day a presentation, quiz or paper is due can lead to an F for that presentation, quiz, or paper (unless the faculty concedes the reason is due to an excusable absence for personal illness/family emergency/religious observance. STUDENT DISABILITY: Rehabilitation Act (Section 504) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): The University of Southern California is committed to full compliance with the Rehabilitation Act (Section 504) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). As part of the implementation of this law, the University will continue to provide reasonable accommodation of academically qualified students with disabilities so those student can participate fully in the University s educational programs and activities. Although USC is not required by law to change the fundamental nature of essential curricular components of its programs in order to accommodate the needs of disabled students, the University will provide reasonable academic accommodations. The specific responsibility of the University administration and all faculty serving in a teaching capacity is to ensure the University s compliance with this policy. ARCH 406 Spring 2017 HAKOMORI 1/12/17 6

7 The general definition of a student with a disability is any person who has a physical or mental impairment which substantially limits one or more of such person s major life activities, and any person who has a history of, or is regarded as having, such an impairment. Reasonable academic and physical accommodations include but are not limited to: extended time on examinations; substitution of similar or related work for a non- fundamental program requirement; time extensions on papers and projects; special testing procedures; advance notice regarding book list for visually impaired and some learning disabled students; use of academic aides in the classroom such as note takers and sign language interpreters; early advisement and assistance with registration; accessibility for students who use wheelchairs and those with mobility impairments; and need for special classroom furniture or special equipment in the classroom. OBTAINING ACCOMODATIONS: Any student requesting academic accommodations based on a disability is required to register with Disability Services and Programs (DSP) each semester. A letter of verification for approved accommodations can be obtained from DSP. Please be sure the letter is delivered to your instructor as early in the semester as possible. DSP is located in STU 301 and is open 8:30 AM. 5:00 PM., Monday through Friday. Disability Services & Programs contact: ARCH 406 Spring 2017 HAKOMORI 1/12/17 7