ARCH 490

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Special Topics in Contemporary Architecture

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Credit: 1 TO 4 hours.

Selected topics in and applications of contemporary architecture; see Class Schedule or department office for current topics.

1 to 4 undergraduate hours. 1 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated in separate terms up to 12 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours, if topics vary. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. For majors only.

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ARCH 490 class schedule data for spring 2026
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
75898	Online	AGD	3:30PM -6:20PM	T	n.a.	Planas Casado, R	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Arch and Graphic Design
76191	Seminar	DN	11:00AM -1:50PM	T	1134 Literatures, Cultures, & Ling	Nduom, D	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Caribbean Tourism & Arch Image Section Info: Caribbean Tourism and the Architectural Image: From Postcard to Place. Examines how tourism's image economies (e.g., paintings, photographs, postcards, advertisements) construct the Caribbean as an "exotic" paradise of leisure and health, disseminating that fantasy to advance political, social, cultural, and economic objectives. Using the Caribbean as a case study, we will examine how historical representations from the 18th century to the present center the tourist gaze, colonial consumption, and simulated authenticity to shape a picturesque ideal. Through case studies, students will gain a deeper understanding of architecture and identify across the region.
77300	Seminar	MA	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	205 Architecture Building	Asker, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Over, Under, Otherwise Section Info: This seminar takes up what we might call an unorthodox auxiliary—a repertoire of techniques that are less heroic, less automatically oppositional, more effective, and sneakier. These tactics—rumor, exaggeration, doubling, absurdity, remotes, dissensus—expand the vocabulary of activism. They allow us to act obliquely rather than head-on, to create openings instead of walls, to experiment with forms of resistance that are performative, poetic, and plural. By testing these tactics through drawings, artifacts, and public staging, we will explore how architecture is not only something we make, but something that makes us. The seminar culminates in a collective exhibition/installation: a tactical assembly that rehearses new repertoires of activism—less heroic, more inventive, and quietly disruptive. Over, Under, Otherwise: Tactics of Spatial Dissensus. We are living on an open wound, layered with colonial violence and rigid social structures. Architecture too often sustains these fractures, normalizing exclusion and hierarchy. Protest has been the default form of dissent, but it is also a limited one; it assumes visibility, opposition, and heroism. What if architecture could draw from a wider, stranger set of tools? This seminar takes up what we might call an unorthodox auxiliary - a repertoire of techniques that are less heroic, less automatically oppositional, more effective, and sneakier. These tactics - rumor, exaggeration, doubling, absurdity, remotes, dissensus - expand the vocabulary of activism. They allow us to act obliquely rather than head-on, to create openings instead of walls, to experiment with forms of resistance that are performative, poetic, and plural. By testing these tactics through drawings, artifacts, and public staging, we will explore how architecture is not only something we make, but something that makes us. The seminar culminates in a collective exhibition/installation: a tactical assembly that rehearses new repertoires of activism - less heroic, more inventive, and quietly disruptive.
76281	Seminar	MOD	12:00PM -12:50PM	MWF	102B Architecture Building	Schwartzman, G	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Special Topics: Modeling