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April 5, 2005: Architecture

Readings

Baker.pdf

Baker, N. "We Are All Outdoor Animals" Architecture City Environment, Proceedings of PLEA 2000, pp. 553-55, (eds.) K. Steemers, and S. Yannas, James & James, London, 2000.

123 K

Assignments

The following documents contain instructions for a 1.5 – 2 hour (3 mile) walking tour of the University (ideally taken in the early to midmorning or mid to late afternoon in small groups of 2 to 4 to promote discussion):

 

Walking_Tour_Map.pdf

Walking Tour Map

1.0 M

Walking_Tour_Text.pdf

Walking Tour Instructions

28 K

Questions

  • As you walk and ponder the past, present, and future histories of the University, how would you accommodate expansion?
  • Where and how should additional student and faculty housing occur?
  • How would you diminish the presence of the car and parking in favor of alternative means of transportation?
  • How would you protect, enhance, acknowledge and/or recover the various vanished or buried traces of natural and cultural histories throughout the University domain?
  • What values do we express in the designs of these various built indoor and outdoor places as the University expands and contracts?
  • As we move ahead, how can the principles of Jefferson’s design vision be honored without merely copying styles?

Speakers

Prof. William Sherman is the Chair of the Department of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, an Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and a practicing architect ...


Prof. Warren T. Byrd, Jr. has taught in the Department of Landscape Architecture for over 20 years. He was chair of the department from 1986 to 1992. He currently teaches design studios in the...