Art and Architecture: Reinventing the City

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What is it about an "artistic approach" that proves to be especially useful to exploring and reimagining the city? This course takes such an approach to the existing landscape of Abu Dhabi. Students will visit public parks, streetscapes, markets, super-blocks, the port, shopping malls, and industrial districts. We will document our observations through field notes, drawings, photography, video, and sound recordings. This research will be a foundation for creating objects, sculptures, and installations. Students will learn to develop forms of artistic and architectural presentation and representation that reflect the urban design and development of the city. This research and artistic production will be accompanied by selected readings that address theoretical, historical, and contemporary perspectives from authors and artists such as Atelier, Bow Wow, Denise Scott Brown, Homi Baba, Dan Graham, Kevin Mitchell, and Robert Venturi, Andrea Zittel.