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ARTH 24192 Imagining Pittsburgh's Common Buildings

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Project description

This class is an architectural studio based in the common residential buildings of Pittsburgh and the city's built environment. (It has been offered for Chicago in other academic years and in Summer 2021, and will likely be again in the future.) While design projects and architectural skills will be the focus of the class, it will also incorporate readings, a small amount of writing, some social and geographical history, one or two required visits to Pittsburgh, and some additional explorations around Chicago. The studio will: (1) give students interested in pursuing architecture or the study of cities experience with a studio class and some skills related to architectural thinking, (2) acquaint students intimately with the common residential buildings and built fabric of a different place, while also comparing that place to our own, and (3) situate all this within a context of social thought about residential architecture, common buildings, housing, and the city.