urban design

Namba Parks

Location: Osaka, Japan

Program: Retail & Leisure

Design: The Jerde Partnership

The paper will be a written essay in (5 pages) arguing for (or against) the role of architecture

and urbanism of the buildng (Namba Parks). It should actively engage a building or design

project at-large in the city through both description and analysis of its impact. The impact can

be gauged as an aesthetic, ethic, or image/icon; or the impact could be more measurable as

demographic, environmental, social, economic or political; but that impact must be described in

terms of negotiating the diverse and complex urban realm. Papers will be evaluated for both

speculation and rigor – so be careful to balance poetics with documented facts; and assertive

righteousness with scholarly responsibility.

You need to use one or more of these subjects to argue the Namba Parks building desgn.

The references are includes for every subject :

1.29 Modernism and Urban Vision 1: Utopia

Overview: Jean-Louis Cohen, Scenes of the World to Come

(selection)

Foundation: Patrick Geddes, Cities in Evolution (selection)

Raymond Unwin, “Formal and Informal Beauty,” Town

Planning in Practice (1909): 115-139.

Contemporary: Reinhold Martin, “Territory: From the Inside, Out,”

Utopia’s Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again

(2011) 1-26.

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2.5 Modernism and Urban Vision II: “Master Planning” and Economies

of Scale

Overview: Emmanuel Petit, Irony, or the Self-Criticality of Postmodern

Architecture (2013) (selection)

Foundation: Le Corbusier. “A Contemporary City,” from City of

Tomorrow (1924)

Frank Lloyd Wright. Broadacre City. (selection)

Ludwig Hibersheimer, Metropolis Architecture (1927)

“The Athens Charter,” CIAM (1933)

Contemporary: Neil Brenner. “Stereotypes, Archetypes, and

Prototypes: Three Uses of Superlatives in Contemporary

Urban Studies.” City & Community 2.3 (2003).

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2.12 Buying In: Brandscapes and City Spaces

Overview: Anna Klingman, “(M)Architecture” from Brandscapes:

Architecture in the Experience Economy (2014): 189-230

Foundation: Charter of New Urbanism

David Harvey, "Postmodernism" and Postmodernism in the

City" in The Condition of Postmodernity (1989): 39-98.

Contemporary: Rem Koolhaas, Junkspace (2000)

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2.19 Urban Theory as Agenda: Diversity, Inequality and Nothingness

Overview: Joe Day, Corrections and Collections (2014) (selection)

Foundation: Peter Hall, “The City of Theory”.

Dolores Hayden. What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?.

Contemporary: Hashim Sarkis, “Spaces for Recognition: On the Design

of Public Space in a Multicultural Society,” New Political

Science 19 (2007): 153-170.

Richard Sennett, “Borders and Boundaries,” in Endless

City (2011).

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2.26 Urban Theory as Geography: Negotiating Cultural Diversity

Overview: Arjun Appadurai, “Disjuncture and Difference in the

Global Cultural Economy,” from Modernity at Large:

Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (1996), 27-47.

Foundation: Saskia Sassen. A New Geography of Centers and

Margins.

Saskia Sassen. Place and Production in a Global

Economy. 299-304

Contemporary: “Urbanism’s Core?” Harvard Design Magazine 37 (2014)

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OUTLINE DUE (3 pages with bibliography)

3.4 The Nature of Nature in the Urban Environment

Overview: Ungers, Mathias. “Landscape as Urbanism” from The

Landscape Urbanism Reader (2006): 35-53.

Foundation: Frederick Law Olmstead. Public Parks and the

Enlargement of Towns. 337-344

Ebenezer Howard. From Garden Cities of Tomorrow. 345-

353

Ian McHarg, Nature in the Metropolis. 132-141

Contemporary: Peter Sloterdij,k Interview from Architecture of Change

2: Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment

(2009): 18-23

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3.14 Urban Character as Theoretical Strategy

Overview: Anthony Vidler, Type, Diagram. The City: Revisiting

Paradigms of Design from Rossi to Koolhaas,” in The

European City: Architectural Interventions and

Transformations (2004): 26-37.

Foundation: Colin Rowe & Fred Koetter, Collage City (selection)

Alois Reigl, “The Modern Cult of Monuments,” trans by

Forster and Ghirardo, Oppositions 25 (1982): 20-51

Contemporary: Mario Carpo, “The Postmodern Cult of Monuments”

Future Anterior (2007): 51-60

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3.21 Urban Design as Image, Icon and Object

Overview: Trevor Paglen, “Experimental Geography” in Critical

Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (2015): 34-39

Foundation: Kevin Lynch. The City Image and Its Elements (selection)

Sharon Zukin, Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to

Disneyland (1991) (selection)

Aldo Rossi, from “The Architecture of the City,” [1966] in

Architecture Culture: 392-398.

Contemporary: Andrew Zago, “On the Demise and Rise of Detroit”

KCRW Interview

Todd Gannon, Biennale catalog essay (to be published)

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FIRST DRAFT DUE (at least 6 pages written)

3.28 Urban Theory in All Dimensions

Overview: Sarah Whiting, “Bas-Relief Urbanism: Chicago’s Figured

Field,” Mies in America (2001) 642-691.

Foundation: Camillo Sitte, “City Planning According to Artistic

Principles” (1889)

Contemporary: Peter Trummer, “The City as an Aggregated Object”

Project 2 (Summer 2013): 10-12

Stan Allen, “The Thick 2-D: Mat-Building in the

Contemporary City,” Practice: Architecture Technique +

Representation (2009): 192-215.