Topics in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism: From Field to Frame

Few architectural structures have been labored over as much as the barn. From community raising weekends and feminist pedagogical projects, to back-to-the land conversions and acts of preservation, throughout the rural United States these are sites where commonly held distinctions break down: between amateur participants and expert practitioners, between material culture and computational methods, between individuals and collectives, between manual trades and intellectual pursuits, between architectural discipline and building practice. This seminar begins by breaking down the barn, then designing and choreographing the raising of a new one.