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ARQ1365 _ SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHITECTURE L
Theory Seminar: Architecture, Infrastructure and Territory

About the course

The course proposes a discussion around the interdependence between infrastructure and urban development and its implications in design and planning by reading key texts and analyzing relevant precedents.

As part of the teaching activities of the newly established research group Laboratory Architecture, Infrastructure and Territory (LAIT), the course aims at introducing and fundamenting the new design studios that will launched consequently.

Schedule:
Wednesday (2:00PM-5:00PM)

Place:
L526

Bibliography:
ALLEN, Stan. Points+Lines – Diagrams and Projects for the City. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999;

AMIN, Ash; THRIFT, Nigel. Cities: Reimagining the Urban. London, Polity Press, 2004;

BHATIA, Neeraj; PRYBYLKI, Maya; SHEPARD, Lola; WHITE, Mason. Pamphlet Architecture 30 – Coupling: Strategies for Insfrastructural Opportunism. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2011;

GRAHAM, Stephen; MARVIN, Simon. Splintering Urbanism – Networked Infrastructures, Technological Mobilities and the Urban Condition. London: Routledge, 2001;

STOLL, Katrina; LLOYD, Scott. Infrastrcuture as Architecture: Designing Composite Networks. Berlin: Jovis, 2010;

SHANNON, Kelly; SMETS, Marcel. The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure. Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2010.

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