Course Info: HACU-0248
| Course | HACU-0248 Architectural Anthropology |
| Long Title | Architectural Anthropology |
| Term | 2017F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Franklin Patterson Hall 106 on M,W from 10:30-11:50 |
| Faculty | Gabriel Arboleda |
| Capacity | 20 |
| Available | 5 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend approximately 6 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time. |
| Description | This class explores the emerging interdisciplinary space between the fields of architecture and anthropology. We study the ethics, methods, and subject interests of architectural anthropology in both theory (as a research approach to the built environment) and practice (specific proposals of building with and/or for cultural identity). This is a theory seminar with a visual analysis component. The main pedagogical goal of this course is that, in understanding the historical relationship between the fields of architecture and anthropology, students in turn understand the complexities of carrying out research and building work with peoples and cultures other than one's own. Central in this aim is that, first, students become familiar with the ethnographic method, and its possibilities and challenges when applied to architectural research and practice. Second, that they become familiar with architecture’s subject of interest, particularly how the building of other peoples has been traditionally represented, and what the issues are with that type of representation. In general, this course invites critical thinking about the discipline of architecture when it meets social phenomena such as culture, diversity, and social class. |