ARC 342C / ARC 395C / U D 388R.3 / URB 325 / LAS 328 Seminar
TTH 9:30am – 11:00pm, GOL 3.120
Open to graduate students and upper-division undergraduate students
Juan Miró: jmiro@austin.utexas.edu
A survey of Mexican architecture and urbanism from its origins in pre-Columbian times to the 21st century. Architecture will be understood as a cultural expression intricately connected to its historical context and the landscape that supports it.
PREREQUISITES:
This course is open to graduate students and upper-division undergraduate students from all disciplines of the School of Architecture (Architecture, Historic Preservation, Urban Design, Landscape Architecture, Interior Design and Planning). This course is also open to interested graduate students and upper-division undergraduate students from across campus majoring in Urban Studies, Art History, Mexican American Studies, and Latin American Studies.
No architectural background is required to take this class.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
- Students will learn about the most significant ideas, places, and architects that have shaped, and continue to shape, Mexican architecture and urbanism from the pre-Columbian and colonial periods through the 21st century.
- Students will learn to appreciate Mexican architecture and place-making as a cultural expression with distinctive and significant contributions to the global realm of architecture.
- Students are expected to expand their intellectual curiosity and appreciation towards ancient and indigenous cultures as well as contemporary Mexican culture, which is often poorly understood.
- Students are also expected to gain a general understanding of how people’s wills, historical circumstances, and belief systems, interact with nature and shape the built environment around us
