Urban Design Seminar: Perspectives on Contemporary Practice

SES #: 1 · TOPICS: Introduction to course · READINGS: No readings assigned

Bell, Bryan, Kate Wakeford, eds. Expanding Architecture: Design as Activism . Metropolis Books, 2008. ISBN: 9781933045788.

SES #: 5 · TOPICS: Discussion of Lecture 2 · READINGS: No readings assigned

Ward, Anthony. “The Suppression of the Social in Design: Architecture as War.” In Reconstructing Architecture: Critical Discourses and Social Practices. Edited by Thomas A. Dutton and Lian Hurst Mann. University of Minnesota Press, 1996, pp. 27–69. ISBN: 9780816628087.

Brillembourg, Alfredo, and Hubert Klumpner. Torre David: Informal Vertical Communities. Lars Muller Publishers, 2012. ISBN: 9783037782989.

Schmid, Christian. “Afterword: Urbanization as an Open Process.” In Torre David–Informal Vertical Communities . Lars Muller Publishers, 2012, pp. 384-387. ISBN: 9783037782989.

SES #: 7 · TOPICS: Ideas Workshop 1 · READINGS: No readings assigned

Smith, Cynthia E. Design for the Other 90% . Editions Assouline, 2007. ISBN: 9780910503976. (Smithsonian, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.)

Leguia, Mariana. Latin America at the Crossroads. Academy Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780470664926.

Aquilino, Marie, ed. Beyond Shelter: Architecture and Human Dignity . Metropolis Books, 2011. ISBN: 9781935202479.

SES #: 11 · TOPICS: Ideas Workshop 2 · READINGS: No readings assigned

SES #: 13 · TOPICS: Urban Design Projects Presentations · READINGS: No readings assigned