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The Production of Space: Art, Architecture and Urbanism in Dialogue

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2006

This seminar engages in the notion of space from various points of departure. The goal is first of all to engage in the term and secondly to examine possibilities of art, architecture within urban settings in order to produce what is your interpretation of space.

Readings

  • Buy at MIT Press Hayden, Dolores. “The Sense of Place and the Politics of Space.” In The Power of Place: Urban Landscapes as Public History . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995, pp. 14-29. ISBN: 9780262581523. ↗
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  • Buy at MIT Press Hollier, Denis. “Introduction: Bloody Sundays.” In Against Architecture: The Writings of Georges Bataille . Translated by Betsy Wing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1989, pp. ix-xxiii. ISBN: 9780262581134. ↗
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  • White, Hayden. “Review of The Production of Space by Henri Lefebvre.” Design Book Review 29/30 (Summer/Fall 1993): 90-93.
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  • Torre, Susana. “Claiming the Public Space: The Mothers of de Mayo,” pp. 241-250; McLeod, Mary. ““Other” Spaces and “Others”,” pp. 15-28; and Da Costa Meyer, Esther. “La Donna è Mobile: Agoraphobia, Women, and Urban Space.” pp. 141-156. In The Sex of Architecture . Edited by Diana Agrest, Patricia Conway, and Leslie Kanes Weisman. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. ISBN: 9780810926837.
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  • Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space . Translated by Maria Jolas. Foreword by Etienne Gilson. Boston, MA: Beacon Press , 1994, Introduction, pp. xi-xxxv and, chapter 1, pp. 3-37. ISBN: 9780807064733.
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  • Defert, Daniel. “Foucault, the Space and the Architects.” In Documenta X . Edited by Jean François Chevrier. Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany: Cantz, 1997, pp. 274-283. ISBN: 9783893229116.
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  • Bachelard, Gaston. “Poetics of Space,” pp. 86-97; Lefebvre, Henri. “The Production of Space,” pp. 139-146; Jameson, Frederic. “Is Space Political?” pp. 255-270; and Foucault, Michel. “Other Spaces: The Principles of Heterotopia.” pp. 348-356. In Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory . Edited by Neil Leach. London, UK: Routledge, 1997. ISBN: 9780415128261.
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  • Harvey, David. “Afterword.” In The Production of Space . Edited by Henri Lefebvre. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1991, pp. 425-432. ISBN: 9780631181774.
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  • De Certeau, Michel. “The Black Sun of Language: Foucault” pp. 171-183, and “Micro-techniques and Panoptic Discourse: A Quid Pro Quo” pp. 185-191. In Heterologies - Discourse on the Other . Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. ISBN: 9780816614042.
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  • Deutsche, Rosalyn. “Maenner im Raum.” In Stadt-Raeume . Edited by Martin Wentz. New York, NY: Verlag, 1991, pp. 91-97. ISBN: 9783421053626.
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  • Buy at MIT Press Fraser, Nancy. “Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy.” In Habermas and the Public Sphere . Edited by Craig Calhoun. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1992, pp. 109-142. ISBN: 9780262531146. ↗
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  • Jacobs, Jane M. “(Post)colonial Spaces.” In Edge of Empire: Postcolonialism and the City . New York, NY: Routledge, 1996, pp. 13-37. ISBN: 9780415120074.
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  • Lechte, John. “Georges Bataille,” pp. 97-105; “Semiotics,” pp. 121; “Juergen Habermas,” pp. 186-191; “Modernity & Walter Benjamin,” pp. 201-207; and “Post-Modernity.” pp. 231. In Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers: From Structuralism to Postmodernity . Edited by John Lechte. New York, NY: Routledge, 1994. ISBN: 9780415074087.
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  • Lefebvre, Henri. Critique of Everyday Life . Vol. 2. Translated by John Moore with a preface by Michel Trebitsch. New York, NY: Verso, 1991, pp. 206-216 and 231-232. ISBN: 9780860913405.
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  • Deamer, Peggy. “Subject, Object, Text.” In Drawing / Building / Text: Essays in Architectural Theory . Edited by Andrea Kahn. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996, pp. 25-42. ISBN: 9780910413718.
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  • Bourdieu, Pierre. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste . Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1984. ISBN: 9780674212770.
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  • Habermas, Jurgen. The Theory of Communicative Action . Translated by Thomas McCarthy. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1984, pp. 114-151. ISBN: 9780745607702.
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  • Lefebvre, Henri. Everyday Life in the Modern World . Translated by Sacha Rabinovitch. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1971. ISBN: 9780878559725.
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  • Buy at MIT Press De Zegher, Catherine, and Mark Wigley, eds. The Activist Drawing: Retracing Situationist Architectures from Constant’s New Babylon to Beyond . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780262041911. ↗
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  • Croset, Pierre-Alain. “The Narration of Architecture.” In Architecture Production . Edited by Beatriz Colomina. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press, 1988, pp. 201-211. ISBN: 9780910413206.
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  • Jameson, Fredric. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780822310907.
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  • Lefebvre, Henri. The Urban Revolution . Translated by Robert Bononno. Foreword by Neil Smith. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780816641604.
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Fall 2003 · Dialogue in Art, Architecture, and Urbanism

Topics

  • Introduction, Slideshow of examples of Public Artworks and Muntadas’ own work
  • Students show their previous work
  • Slideshow of Artist/Architect Collaborations, e.g.: Acconci + Holl’s Storefront for Art and Architecture; Barbara Kruger’s Collaboration with Smith-Miller and Hawkinson; Silvia Kolbowski; Introduction to the Big Dig/Central Artery Project: Videotapes from PBS Documentary on the Project
  • Hubert Murray, Architect/Planner for Boston’s Central Artery Project speaks to class, presents history of the Central Artery
  • Field Trip to Yale University to attend lecture by Kenneth Frampton and Arjun Appadurai on Critical Regionalism Revisited
  • Visiting Artist: Kelly Dobson
  • Pin-up of Students’ Proposals for their Big Dig Interventions
  • Introduction to Brasilia, Discussion of Planned Cities and their deployments of Public Art and Architecture
  • Field Trip to Brasilia
  • Discussion of Brasilia Trip; Students present photographs and film footage from trip
  • Film: Sans Soleil
  • Film: Berlin Babylon
  • Final Critique of Students’ Projects with Visiting Critics Wendy Jacob, Hubert Murray, and Laurie Palmer
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