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...a computational or generative approach to design using shape grammars. Shape grammars were one of the first, and remain one of the few, computational design...

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...rather than the church, the king, intellectuals or the aristocracy. More negatively viewed, it is ersatz culture, copied and predigested, a phony replacement...

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...open discussion, and 5 minute closing arguments on each side. Students are required to turn in their preparatory notes and all other material relevant to their preparation...

...particularly in the former Soviet Union. Emphasis on the specific historical conditions that enabled these interventions. Guiding questions are these...

...influenced and was influenced by the civilizations with which it came in contact. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session var caption_embed1...

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...the 15th and the 16th centuries), the discussion will emphasize some striking analogies between past and present, and the historical continuities to...

...conditions and structures of production, and their role in shaping and understanding social and aesthetic processes at large. Topics cover a wide range of debates on color...

...and why art has been such a lightning rod for political issues around the world. Lectures: 2 sessions / week, 1.5 hours / session This subject focuses on the objects...

...those missing more than 3 classes during the semester will receive a fail. Persistent lateness will also contribute to a lowered grade for participation...

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...production, and consumption, using case studies of the impact of the mercantile economy on chapels; palaces; prints and paintings, and their replication...

...the technofantasist movements of the 1960s, "post-modern" semiosis, phenomenology, Third World "social modernism", vernacularism, post-modernism...

...Southern European styles. Present-day dreams of a global or cosmopolitan art similarly attempt to neutralize national postures, neo-imperial ambitions...

...This course studies how international modernism interacted with the concept of "nation" and how contemporary discourses concerning globalism changes that dynamic...

...and hand in the bibliography and reading list for their lecture. The lecture will be open to the public. Students will learn to work through macro...