ARC 342R / ARC 388R Seminar
TTH 12:30 – 2:00pm, SUT 3.126
Open to all ARC students
Dora Epstein-Jones: dora.epstein@austin.utexas.edu
This course traces a history in architecture that has been present but latent for over 150 years - a history from prefabrication to fabrication. This course draws out this history, outlines its many social, political, and cultural forces, and attempts to describe this history on terms greater than the sum of its constructional parts or innovative toolings. Throughout this course, students will be asked to critically consider the relationships between technology and architecture culture, and the broader definitions by which we consider architecture as a discipline and profession. While presented in a somewhat chronological fashion, students will be called upon both in writing and in discussion, to make the modern history of fabrication present, and to recognize the possibilities and limitations of both prefabrication and digital fabrication through examinations of projects, codes, regulations, infrastructure, manufacturing, on-site labor, materials, as well as aesthetic considerations. This course requires in-class assignments and a semester paper.
