This is the second time the Architecture Department will offer "Topographical Stories: Architecture, Literature, and Cities," a seminar taught by Architecture professor David Leatherbarrow. Leatherbarrow said students in the class will examine texts from authors writing about specific cities, comparing them to pieces of architecture from the same city and the same time period. — The Daily Pennsylvanian
The UPenn Benjamin Franklin Seminar will be offered this spring. According to Professor Leatherbarrow, "the goal for the course is to get students thinking about architecture in a new way by looking at the discipline using many approaches," reports The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Some of the pairings reported for the seminar include author Sherwood Anderson and Frank Lloyd Wright exploring the city of Chicago; Italian writer Dino Buzzati and Ernesto Rogers to examine Milan; and many others.
I love the idea of this - getting a thoughtful perspective on how nonarchitects view the built world is fascinating and should be more important in our education. writing really struggles to capture what most architects value about our work (the tectonics and sense of space) so it tends to bring out what are often secondary effects of the design.
nice stock image btw - i actually just clicked on this because i like the velasca tower so much.
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I love the idea of this - getting a thoughtful perspective on how nonarchitects view the built world is fascinating and should be more important in our education. writing really struggles to capture what most architects value about our work (the tectonics and sense of space) so it tends to bring out what are often secondary effects of the design.
nice stock image btw - i actually just clicked on this because i like the velasca tower so much.
totally agree
Great topic. Wish I was still at school...
architecture is in desperate need of this type of conversation and discourse- it's dying of a thousand cuts by specialization and technologicalization.
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