3 400-word responses to certain readings. All readings are attached. The first reading response responds to Irene Cheng – Race and Architectural Geometry and Rowe Colin – The Mathematics of the Ideal Villa. The second responds to Jos Boys – Cripping Spaces On Disabling Phenomenology In Architecture. The third responds to Keith L Eggener – Contrasting Images of Identity in the Post War Mexican Architecture of Luis Barragan and Juan O Gorman, Le Corbusier – Towards a New Architecture, Margaret Campbell – What Tuberculosis did for Modernism The Infuence of a Curative Evnironment on Modernist Design and Architecture, and Vinayak Bharne – Le Corbusiers Ruin The Changing Face of Chandigarhs Capitol.
There certain components to each reading response — an understanding of the assigned readings must be demonstrated and the readings must be related to a current event. Responses must utilize the primary arguments expressed in the readings and apply them in an analytical way to current events that impact communities through the built environment. These current events may be current conversations, debates, themes, or news in the disciplines of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, engineering, spatial politics, spatial justice, mapping, interior design, interior architecture, exhibitions, art, etc. or might be current news stories that in some way relate to the built environment. For example, how might the global pandemic (and the likelihood of further pandemics) change future designs for residential architecture? A clear argument should be made in reading responses. Any direct quotations from the reading must not exceed 5-7 words and must be accompanied by close analysis of the selected passage. Quotes and ideas paraphrased from the text must be cited using MLA, Chicago, or APA styles. Any outside articles used for researching your current event must also be properly cited. Plagiarism is taken very seriously.
