Master of Architecture II Fall 2009
INCURSIONS INTO URBAN DISCOURSE
CHICAGO
SHANGHAI
Professor: Diana Agrest
Instructor: Masha Panteleyeva
The Master of Architecture II design studio focused on projects dealing with current critical issues in architecture. Students selected one of two given cities. The exercise, while given to the whole class, afforded an opportunity for individual students to focus on their area of interest, be it Urban Studies; History, Theory, and Criticism; or Technologies. Emphasis was placed on the design process and readings of the cities were developed emphasizing drawing as a tool for critical thinking as an intrinsic part of the process – through personally elaborated maps, graphics, diagrams, drawings at various scales and aerial photographs.
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Shanghai in Transit
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Clogging the Drain
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(In)Formal Archipelago: Chicago
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Shanghai in Transit
Shanghai in Transit: Perceiving the Metropolis
Mark Faulkner
The cityscape of Shanghai developed relatively informally from its creation as a market town into a dispersed fabric of high-rise and low-rise housing. Its illogical organization produces a chaotic reading of the city. By looking back to Zhang Zeduan’s 12th Century painting “Life along the River on the Eve of the Qing Ming Festival,” this project traces the initial act that created Shanghai, its resonance in the current city and how that is perceived by means of the transit system.
Clogging the Drain
Clogging the Drain: Rethinking Chicago’s Effluent Hydrologies
Dustin Tobias
This project examines the evolution of Chicago’s wastewater treatment practices, and proposes a new centralized infrastructure for managing the disposal of solid waste. Treated sewage is aerated and transformed into a potent fertilizer known as biosolid. The city’s Sanitary Canal is appropriated as a linier tract of tillable land, incorporating the recycled biosolids as an agent of new vegetative growth. In turn, the sewage of Chicago returns to the city in the form of fragrant flowers.
(In)Formal Archipelago: Chicago
(In)Formal Archipelago: Chicago
Daniel Meridor
This project explores invisible boundaries in Chicago through the layering of social formations, racial tensions, transportation nodes and gang turfs in order to weave in new systems of activity and movement.