A Radical Way of Teaching Architecture: Bard’s Nontraditional Approach to Architectural Studies Featured on Bloomberg CityLab
Students at Bard College’s new architecture program display “An Atlas for Housing Justice,” a project for a class called Housing and Collective Care.
Architecture at Bard, a new undergraduate program codirected by Assistant Professors of Architectural Studies Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco and Ross Exo Adams, is now in its fourth semester. The program, featured on Bloomberg CityLab, approaches the discipline and practice of architecture as a matter of public concern—an aesthetic spatial practice whose propositions aim to reconfigure our collective present toward more just futures. “Essentially, says Adams, the program seeks to untangle the social and economic forces that produce buildings and cities: ‘How does that all operate within the background [of architecture] and why are we not talking about it more?’ ”
Post Date: 04-05-2022
Post Date: 04-05-2022