Study Abroad
Course Opportunities
Summer 2010
Mexico City, Mexico
Architecture and Design –
Corey Saft & Kari Smith
Design 471 (Field Drawing)
Remote Urbanism –
this course will involve the research methods, in multiple media, to analyze
and study the multitudes of the urban condition. The students will conduct research and design
in Lafayette for 3 weeks prior to the in-country studies. They will continue to research and design in
sketch form while in Mexico. At the end
of the semester each student will have a richly developed, multi-media
sketchbook.
Architecture 580 (Field Theory: Meztizo Modernism)
On Site Theories of Architecture: Theories, histories and manifestoes of the Americas. Students conduct research via readings and writing on the issue of Americanism and how it relates to the History of Architecture. Discussions will take place on actual and representative built sites regarding these histories and theories.