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Architecture as Media: Communication Through the Built Environment

This class reads architecture and the built environment through the lenses of media, communication, and culture. The course takes seriously the proposition that spaces communicate meaningfully and that learning to read spatial productions leads to better understanding how material and technological designs are in sustained conversation with the social, over time. Through analyses of a range of space - from Gothic cathedrals to suburban shopping malls to homes, factories, skyscrapers and digital cities - students will acquire a vocabulary for relating representations and practices, symbols and structures, and for identifying the ideological and aesthetic positions that produce settings for everyday life.

Course #
MCC-UE 1030
Credits
4
Department
Media, Culture, and Communication

Professors

Erica Robles-Anderson

Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication

erica.robles@nyu.edu