48-427 Contemporary Architectural Sites

9 units, Carnegie Mellon University

In the last 4 decades, the notion of site has been broadly interpreted in relation to architecture. Under different project approaches and strategies, sites have been for architecture physical realities, layers of imagined or disappeared history, phenomenological interpretations, sets of events, metaphors, or just something presumably irrelevant and therefore negligible. The document that introduces architecture on site is usually the site plan. Through it, through the story it proposes, the qualities of the site upon which architecture will stand are revealed, and appear what architecture can offer to the site and what the site can, or cannot, expect from architecture. From the examination of specific projects site plans, the seminar intends to reflect on the contents of site within contemporary architecture, as well as on the bonds, if any, that the latter intends to establish with the former.

Prerequisites: none listed

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