ARTS 222
Critical Practice of Architecture: Theories, Methods, and Techniques  Spring 2024
Division I Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed ENVI 202

Class Details

In this course, students will transform an architectural or urban space through design interventions that contribute to reorienting public perception, imagination, and politics. Skills taught include methods and techniques for critical architecture practice, including architecture drawing, 2D graphic design, and 3D modeling (digital and physical). Students will also build on design strategies (e.g., spatial hijacking and détournement), community architecture, and visual techniques to rethink normative understandings of space and time. Through selected readings and discussions, we will examine key ideas that have inspired design thinking and activism. The class culminates in a presentation to external reviewers and a final exhibition.
The Class: Format: studio
Limit: 12
Expected: 10
Class#: 3925
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: This is an intensive studio tutorial requiring working in the architecture studio and/or PC lab outside of scheduled class hours. The class will meet in large and small groups throughout the semester for critique and discussion. Assignments include weekly discussions and design projects requiring drawings and model design. Final project: design project to reorient public perception, imagination, and politics. Evaluation will be based on the design quality at theoretical/conceptual levels.
Prerequisites: Drawing I or permission of instructor.
Enrollment Preferences: Studio Art majors, Art History and Studio Art majors, Envi majors and concentrators
Materials/Lab Fee: $350-$450 lab fee charged to term bill. Lab and materials fees for all studio art classes are covered by the Book Grant for all Williams financial aid recipients.
Distributions: Division I Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVI 202 Division I ARTS 222 Division I
DPE Notes: This design studio invites students to think critically about how power, equity, and difference are manifested through the built environment. It will equip them with the tools to become active agents of change through design activism. We will use design as a cultural practice and creative technique to envision more just and equitable futures through interventions in architectural or urban spaces.
Attributes: ENVI Humanities, Arts + Social Science Electives

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