National Federal Housing Act 1934 _ President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the Act
Above is the CORRECT image of President Franklin D. Roosevelt signing the New Deal. Lecture 04_Architecture + Capital & Currency has been corrected and uploaded to the website. For Monday, you must watch The Pruitt-Igoe Myth…be ready to discuss it on Monday, March 2nd.
T & O Map _ 8th century
Today we discussed the role of Capital and Currency (03_Capital and Currency) in architecture. The project brief, Architectural Economics Case Study has been posted to the website.
The following books will be kept in 5th year studio. Unless the book is taken to the library for scanning, all books MUST remain in studio so they can be used by all.
1- 04 Currency _ Scapegoat
2- The Project of Autonomy _ Pier Vittorio Aureli
3- Architecture and Capitalism _ Peggy Deamer
4- Money _ Perspecta
5- Architectural Practice: A Critical View _ Robert Gutman
6- Governing By Design _ Aggregate
7- The City Reader _ Richard T. LeGates & Frederic Stout
Radiant City _ Le Corbusier
In class we discussed the work of Le Corbusier in relation to Capitalism as well as the Architecture spurred by the Countercultures of the 1960’s and 1970’s in the US & France. Through A Contemporary City for 3 Million Inhabitants and Radiant City, Corb sought a utopian city that addressed the economic conditions of France in the 1920’s & 1930’s. On the other hand, the architectural ideas set forth by the countercultures in the US and France moved to break the Hegelian dialectic of Communism versus Capitalism by propagating their own economic ideas and inserting them into architecture.
Check out Lecture 02_Architects & Economic Systems
In class, we discussed the various Economic Systems theorized and implemented throughout the world. Traditional Economies, Command/Planned Economies, Market Economies, and Mixed Economies comprise these systems and impact the way architecture is made. Lecture 01_Architectural Economics has been posted to the website.
For next week, you must complete the following readings:
DoARCH 572 / ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE II 