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Case Studies in Architectural Design | Instructor: Jill Stoner

The design of buildings or communities of advanced complexity. Each section deals with a specific topic such as housing, public and institutional buildings, and local or international community development. Studio work is supplemented by lectures, discussions, readings, and field trips.

Slow REVERSE / Fast FORWARD

"all their world’s done to change the world
Is to make it uglier to the airport"
— Louis Zukofsky, "A"-18

Our site is the exurban hinterland south of San Francisco along the 101 highway, a landscape of isolated corporate headquarters, chain hotels, parking lots, airport support structures and office parks — constructions that fail to rise to the level of what we normally define as "Architecture." We will address these buildings as landscape — that is, as the potential site for an architecture that can be excavated out of their very substance. We will approach these sites with a non-judgmental spirit and a forensic eye for detail, as archeologists searching for new urban possibilities.