ARCHITECTURE IN MOTION (College of Creative Studies/Art Studio)

Tues 4-6 pm ( Sculpture Studio, Art)
Wed 5-8pm (CCS)

How portable is (the idea of) Home? What are the minimum requirements for human shelter? How safe is safe enough? What should the 21st century American habitat look like? How about you designing a prototype portable home using found materials?

Join us for a class that combines readings in art, & design history /theory, visiting artist lectures, film screenings, field trips to LA architects and the San Pedro dockyards . Using prefabricated, “found” and recycled materials, students will be asked to think in three dimensions about how people use, consume and live with manufactured products and (post) industrial by-products. Themes to be addressed will include appropriation, ephemerality, disposability, portability, modularity, and hybrid functionality, The class aims to elicit a variety of responses to the LOT/EK:MDU installation currently stationed outside the University Art Museum..

In addition to the bi-weekly class meetings ,students are required to attend a one-day symposium entitled Where or What is Home? Mobile Architecture versus Permanent Dwellings in Embarcadero Hall, IV on Saturday , November 11 and a field trip (date to be determined) to the office of Jennifer Siegel, the Director of the Organization for Mobile Architecture and to the San Pedro dockyard in Los Angeles.

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SCHEDULE

WEEK ONE
9/23 Home Free? Liberty, Security and the 21st Century Habitat (Dick Hebdige)
9/24 The LOT/EK MDU project (Chris Scoates)

WEEK TWO
9/30 OPEN
10/1 Robert Kronenberg readings “Buildings in Motion”

WEEK THREE
10/8 contextualizing Saturday’s symposium: What is portable architecture? (DH/CS)
10/11: Mobile Architecture versus Permanent Dwellings symposium

WEEK FOUR
10/13- Introducing Al;lan Sekula’s work Fish Story (DH/CS)
10 15 Allan Sekula talk “Freeway to China and Other Maritime Fables”

WEEK FIVE
10/21 video screening: “One Pair of Eyes: Reyner Banham Over Los Angeles” (BBC 1974)
10/22 Allan Wexler talk: “The Fine Art of Applied Art”

WEEK SIX
10/28 Dick Hebdige talk: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Homeless Vehicle Project
10/29 “Man without a Past” screening (Aki Kaurismaki, Finland, 2003)

WEEK SEVEN
11/4 – student project idea presentations
11/5 - OPEN

WEEK EIGHT
11/11 - D.K.Ruth (RURAL STUDIO) symposium : Creative Solutions to the Affordable Housing Crisis withVadim Hsu, architect, santa barbara, John Patton (director Planning and Development, SB County); Kim Yasuda

11/12 - D.K.Ruth, The Rural Studio Project: Towards an Architecture of Decency

WEEK NINE
11/17 – OPEN / STUDENT WORK ON FINAL PROJECTS
11/18- DITTO

THANKSGIVING WEEK

WEEK TEN
12/2- STUDENT PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
12/3- STUDENT PROJECT PRESENTATIONS