4.S26
Special Subject: City Form
Seminar or lecture on a topic in city form that is not covered in the regular architecture curriculum. Requires original research and presentation of oral and written reports and/or design projects, varying at the discretion of the instructor.
Spring 2016 · Territory: Spatial Reification of Power
This course proposes that investigating the ways in which territory is produced, maintained and strategized, generates conflicts, establishes divisions, and builds identities can lead to a more critical understanding of architecture's role in society. This course is designed to expand the student's literacy in the concept of territory and its relation to the realm of architecture.
Readings
- Gottmann, Jean. “Preface” and “The People and Their Territory: The Partitioning of the World.” In The Significance of Territory . University of Virginia Press, 1973, pp. ix–x and 1–15. ISBN: 9780813904139.
- Schmitt, Carl. “On the Meaning of the Word Nomos.” In The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus Publicum Europaeum . Telos Press Publishing, 2003, pp. 67–79. ISBN: 9780914386292.
- Gregotti, Vittorio. Il territorio dell’architettura . Feltrinelli, 1966.
- Jenni, Rolf, Christian M. Inderbitzin, and Milica Topalovic. “Interview with Vittorio Gregotti.” In San Rocco 02 / The Even Covering of the Field . San Rocco, 2011.
- Crampton, Jeremy W. “Foucault and Space, Territory, Geography.” In A Companion to Foucault . Edited by Christopher Falzon, Timothy O’Leary, and Jana Sawicki. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013, pp. 384–99. ISBN: 9781444334067.
- Antoine, Picon. “What has Happened to Territory.” In Territory: Architecture Beyond Environment . Edited by David Gissen. Academy Press, 2010. ISBN: 9780470721650.
- Lefebvre, Henri. “Social Space.” In The Production of Space . Blackwell Publishers, 1991. ISBN: 9780631140481.
- Deleuze, Gilles. “Capitalist Representation.” In Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . Viking Adult, 1977, pp. 240–61. ISBN: 9780670129416.
- Ponte, Alessandra. “Maps and Territory.” In The House of Light and Entropy (Architecture Words II) . Architectural Association Publications, 2012, pp. 169–216. ISBN: 9781907896170.
- Kagan, Richard L., and Benjamin Schmidt. “Maps and the Early Modern State: Official Cartography.” In The History of Cartography, Volume 3: Cartography in the European Renaissance . Edited by David Woodward. University of Chicago Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780226907338.
- Corner, James. “The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention.” In Mappings . Edited by Denis E. Cosgrove. Reaktion Books, 1999. ISBN: 9781861890214.
- Latour, Bruno. “Visualisation and Cognition: Drawing Things Together.” In Knowledge and Society Studies in the Sociology of Culture Past and Present . Edited by H Kuklick. Jai Press, 1986, pp. 1–40. ISBN: 9780892326815.
- Houellebecq, Michel. The Map and the Territory . Knopf, 2012. ISBN: 9780307701558.
- Storey, David. “The Territorial State. " In Territories: The Claiming of Space . Routledge, 2012, pp. 13–30. ISBN: 9780415575492.
- Scott, James C. Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed . Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN: 9780300070163.
- Jackson, Peter, Jan Penrose, eds., et al. Constructions of Race, Place, and Nation . University of Minnesota Press, 1993. ISBN: 9780816625055.
- Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. “Treatise on Nomadology: The War Machine.” In A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia . University of Minnesota Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780816614028.
- Foucault, Michel. “Governmentality.” In Power: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954_ –1984_. Edited by James D. Faubion. Penguin Books, 2010, pp. 201–22. ISBN: 9780140259575.
- Mezzadra, Sandro, and Brett Neilson. “The Sovereign Machine of Governmentality.” In Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor . Duke University Press Books, 2013, pp. 167–204. ISBN: 9780822355038.
- Zaera Polo, Alejandro. “Architecture of Power.” In The Sniper’s Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation-X . Actar, 2013. ISBN: 9788492861224.
- ———. “Re-Empowering Architecture.” In The Sniper’s Log: Architectural Chronicles of Generation-X . Actar, 2013. ISBN: 9788492861224.
- IND (Inter National Design). “Capital versus Capital.” In Visionary Power: Producing the Contemporary City . Edited by Christine de Baan, Joachim Declerck, Véronique Patteeuw, Berlage Institute, and International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. NAi010 Publishers, 2007. ISBN: 9789056625795.
- Bouman, Ole, Stichting Archis, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, and C-lab (Columbia University). Volume 5: The Architecture of Power, Part 1, January 2006; Volume 6: Power Building, March 2006; Volume 7: Power Logic, May 2006 Archis Foundation.
- Mumford, Lewis. “The Natural History of Urbanization.” In Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth . Edited by William L. Thomas. University of Chicago Press, 1956, pp. 382–484. ISBN: 9780226796031.
- Marx, Karl. “The Communist Manifesto.” In Karl Marx: Selected Writings . Edited by David McLellan. Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 245–71. ISBN: 9780198782650.
- Tafuri, Manfredo. The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970’s . MIT Press, 1987. ISBN: 9780262200615.
- Sarkis, Hashim. “The World According to Architecture: Beyond Cosmopolis.” In New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth . Harvard Graduate School of Design, 2011, pp. 104–8. ISBN: 9781934510278.
- Salgueiro Barrio, Roi. What World? Reframing the World as One City. A Review of the Exhibition “City of 7 Billion. A Constructed World.” December 2, 2015.
- Hays, K. Michael, et al. Buckminster Fuller: Starting with the Universe . Yale University Press, 2008, pp. 1–20. ISBN: 9780300126204.
- Gandy, Matthew. “Where Does the City End?” In Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization . Edited by Neil Brenner. Jovis, 2014. ISBN: 9783868593174.
- Soja, Edward W. “Regional Urbanization and the End of the Metropolis Era.” In The New Blackwell Companion to the City . Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. ISBN: 9781118655306.
- Hulshof, Michiel, and Daan Roggeveen. How the City Moved to Mr. Sun: China’s New Megacities . Sun Publishers, 2010. ISBN: 9789085068785.
- Ghosn, Rania. “The Expansion of the Extractive Territory.” In The Petropolis of Tomorrow . Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Mary Casper. Actar, 2013. ISBN: 9780989331784.
- Mezzadra, Sandro, and Brett Neilson. “Fabrica Mundi. Producing the World by Drawing Borders.” In Scapegoat: Archtecture, Landscape, Political Economy . CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013, pp. 3–18. ISBN: 9781482370683.
- Mezzadra, Sandro, and Brett Neilson. Border as Method, Or, the Multiplication of Labor . Duke University Press Books, 2013. ISBN: 9780822355038.
- Przybylski, Maya. “Re-Rigging: Transborder Logics Across the Bounded Site.” In The Petropolis of Tomorrow . Edited by Neeraj Bhatia and Mary Casper. Actar, 2013. ISBN: 9780989331784.
- Bouman, Ole, Stichting Archis, et al. Volume 39: Urban Border . Archis, 2014. ISBN: 9789077966396.
- Foucault, Michel. “Space, Knowledge, and Power.” In Power . Edited by James D. Faubion. New Press, 1994, pp. 349–64.
- “Eisenman (and Company) Respond.” Progressive Architecture 76, no. 2 (1995): 88–91.
- Meuwissen, Joost. Political Urbanism. Vol. 3. Monu: Magazine on Urbanism. Rotterdam: Board, 2005.
- Aureli, Pier Vittorio. “The City as a Political Form.” In Visionary Power: Producing the Contemporary City . Edited by Christine de Baan, Joachim Declerck, Véronique Patteeuw, Berlage Institute, and International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam. NAi010 Publishers, 2007. ISBN: 9789056625795.
- Aureli, Pier Vittorio, and Martino Tattara. “Architecture as Framework: The Project of the City and the Crisis of Neoliberalism.” New Geographies 1 (2009): 36–51.
Prerequisites & course information
Prereq: Permission of instructor G (Fall) Not offered regularly; consult department Units arranged Can be repeated for credit.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- MIT OpenCourseWare ↗Spring 2016
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.