2016 Vår

Emnet formidles:
• Gjennom forelesninger (2 -3 timer hver mandag morgen)
• I tillegg er det satt av tid til selvstudie.
• Til begge emner hører et teoretisk pensum, der studentene leser og fremlegger alt fra historisk oversiktsverker, filosofi til eststiske og designteoretiske perspektiver som skal berike deres forståelse, og utvide deres horisont. Teoretiske tekster hentet fra nevnte pensum leses av studentene individuelt eller gjennom kollokviearbeide. Hver uke fremlegger en gruppe en utvalgt tekst som er relevant for den dagens forelesning.
• Begge emner avsluttes med innlevering av arbeidsbok, der oppgaven er å trekke ut vesentlige punkter fra et omfattende historisk eller teoretisk stoff, og å selv klare å reise en problemstilling i forhold til dette materialet, som studentene skal svare på visuelt i arbeidsboken.

Det kreves av studentene at de:
• Er tilstede i undervisningen aktivt deltakende, eller lyttende
• At de fremlegger en utdelt tekstpassasje for kursleder og resten av gruppen en til to ganger i løpet av hvert semester
• Leverer skriftlig arbeid/mappe innen angitt frist.

Kurset består av forelesninger, litteraturstudier og søking etter relevant informasjon. Individuelle oppgaver/alternativt gruppearbeid vil ha som mål å kartlegge/beskrive situasjonen og skape fremstillinger som kan være et bidrag til triennalen.

The studio is organized around four case-studies:

The students will form four groups; each group will study one case from the four most common transit situations of the current global circulation of people.

Spontaneous or planned camps for refugees or internally displaced persons (IDPs)
Despite the temporary nature of this typology, camps – in particular planned ones, tend to become permanent settlements. There is a need for taking a longer-term perspective from the outset of a crisis, and plan these settlements with this in mind. How can architects maximize the capacity of people in acute need of protection, and at the same time ensure a high degree of livability? Potential case study: Zaatari refugee camp, JORDAN

Urban displacement and outside of camp contexts
The term urban displacement is used to refer to the specific challenges related to urban contexts where displaced populations mix with urban populations instead of settling in camp-like settings. Up to 80% of internally displaced persons (IDPs) currently live outside camp-like settings. Typically, urban displaced
populations are forced to settle in areas with inclement environmental and socio-economic conditions and their presence further exacerbate the vulnerability of the existing urban poor, who often live in informal settlements. Unlike Jordan, Iraq and Turkey, there are no refugee camps in Lebanon. Aid to refugees is essentially provided by civil society or the general population, especially by people who have opened up their homes, and by the municipalities of the villages and towns. Refugees have set themselves up in old houses and abandoned buildings. How can architects help both groups?
Potential case study: Relevant locations in LEBANON

Transit points and hyper-temporality
The current refugee crisis in Europe has created a paradoxical situation: the host country does not want the refugees there, and the refugees do not want to be there. At the same time, the arrivals are forced to stay in each country for a certain period of time, in order to register before continuing their journey (if allowed to do so). The arriving refugees need protection, shelter and other facilities, and the host countries are obligated to ensure this. What kind of spatial implications does this situation incite?
Potential case study: Transit points in GREECE, MACEDONIA OR CROATIA (depending on the situation at the time).

Reception facilites/Asylum Centers
When refugees have arrived at the country in which they wish to apply for asylum, they are accommodated in asylum centers. Some stay there for a few weeks, others for months, even years. These centers turn into a parallel world, in many cases secluded from their surroundings. How can these centers be best organized and designed, and how do they relate to their surroundings and neighbors?
Potential case study: Various asylum centers in NORWAY (could also be combined with the transitpoint on the border between NORWAY and RUSSIA).

AHO/NRC: Håvard Breivik (architect), Tone Selmer-Olsen (architect) Mattias Josefson (architect)
In collaboration with Norwegian Refugee Council and NORCAP

The course will be based on:
o Symposia: lectures followed by discussions.
o Individual research work: the thought and output of one architect, chosen by the student. This work will be mostly conducted in libraries and the internet. This work will be individually supervised.
o Presentations of the work in progress open to discussion by the members of the course.

The assessment will be based on:
Attendance and participation in course lectures (40%)
Participation in the work in progress sessions and delivery of the final essay (60%).

Bibliography:

Theory:
Forty, Adrian, Words and Buildings: A vocabulary of Modern Architecture, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 2000.
Architectural Theory, from the Renaissance to the Present, London: Taschen, 2003.
Mallgrave, Harry Francis, Architectural Theory: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 (vol.2), London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Craig, C., Cairns, S., Heynen, H. (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, London: SAGE, 2012.
Smith, K. (ed), Introducing Architectural Theory, N.Y.: Routledge, 2012.
Mallgrave, Harry Francis, David J. Goodman, An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present, London: Wiley, 2011.
Borgmann, Albert. The destitution of space: from cosmic order to cyber disorientation,Harvard design magazine, 2000 Winter-Spring, p.12-17

Cases:
Pollard, Joshua, The Materialization of Religious Structures in the Time of Stonehenge, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, Volume 5, Number 3, November 2009, pp. 332-353.
Hendrix, John, Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture, N.Y.: Peter Lang, 2011.
Hart, Vaughan. Erich Mendelsohn and the fourth dimension, Arq: architectural research quarterly, 1995 Winter, v.1, n.2, p.50-59.

Writing:
Borden, Iain, Katerina Rüedi Ray, The Dissertation: A Guide for Architecture Students, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Turabian, Kate L. , A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Chicago: U of Chicago Press, The seventh edition, published in 2007.
Wiseman, Carter , Writing Architecture: A Practical Guide to Clear Communication About the Built Environment, San Antonio, Texas: Trinity Univ. Press, 2014.