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HOUSING COMPLEX:
PERCEPTIONS SPACES AND
OF ARCHITECTURE! ! TERRITORIES
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V3117, Spring 2016 Mondays
Fall 2016 ARCH (lectures): 4:10Special
UN3312_001 - 5:25, Diana
Topics504
Wednesdays (Seminars):
Room TBC, The Diana Center 4:10 - 5:25
A: Diana 504, B: Altschul 530, C: Altschul 805
Prof. Ignacio G. Galán, igalan@barnard.edu
Lecturer & Section Leader: Ralph Ghoche, rghoche@barnard.edu,
Office:
Office Hours: 5031:10-3pm,
Wed. B, 212-854-8001
500K Diana
Office Hours: Wed. 4:00-6:00PM
Section Leader: James Graham, jdg2153@columbia.edu
Section Leader: Leah Meisterlin, lmeister@barnard.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTION
The object of the course is to introduce
students to the discipline of architecture
as a discursive field. The course aims to
foster a critical understanding and
awareness of some of the decisive
ideas, theories and debates relating to
architecture and urbanism over the past
century and beyond.

Perceptions of Architecture is organized

thematically into three parts. The first,
“Architecture, a Brief History,” casts a
wide historical net, examining
architecture from its shadowy beginnings
(the tomb, the stone, the tree) to its
(dematerialized) present state. The
A. COURSE DESCRIPTION purpose here is to interrogate the
This class will offer a critical and speculative platform to analyze the what
profession: architectures of housing
is the architect’s role
through seminar discussions and workshop exercises. Housing and how is has
a central topic What
it changed? for
disciplinary discussion and practice: while the house is many questions
timesand challenges
regarded are realm
as the faced byof
intimacy and retreat from the outside world, we will address architects
housing in the
as andesign process? What is
architecture
the architect’s
central to the organization of society, and will inspect its relation responsibility
to changing vis-a-vis
cultural and the
larger public
technological frameworks, economic processes, and political arrangements. sphere? This first of three
parts will foreground the role that urban
and spatial organization
We will study housing as it is defined through spatial configurations and territorial play in the
construction of social practices, human
arrangements. We will consider how housing structures ways of being together, and how it
subjectivities and political awareness.
draws realms of inclusion and exclusion at different scales—defining domains of domesticity
Photo: Dan Cooper, Architectural Forum 72, no. 20 (April, 1940)
and foreignness. We will additionally explore how these definitions are not constructed by
The second part,
architectural “Concepts
elements and but
alone, Representations,”
are additionally will shift the focusthrough
constituted from thetechnological
architect to the building
networks,by
examining key elements of architectural design: the drawing, space, construction
arrangements of objects, and institutional policies, which result in diverse individual and the plan. The goal
here is to develop
occupations andincollective
students aforms
more intimate sense of the way that architects conceive, develop and
of organization.
translate ideas into built form.
The discussion component of the class will bring into focus different theoretical frameworks
The third part, “Architecture in the Expanded Field,” takes its title from Rosalind Krauss’ pivotal essay on
and will art
the land consider historical
sculpture movement transformations of the
in the 1970s. Krauss architectures
argued of housing
that sculptors throughout
had effaced the last
all identifying
century.
markers ofWorkshop exercises
their discipline will ground
to the extent this
that their inquiry
work couldthrough research on
only be determined by contemporary
a series of negativecase
studies in New York City. The development and rehearsal of systems of representation
propositions (not-landscape, not-architecture, not-sculpture, etc...). This final part of the course seeks to
adequate
interrogate totheaddress the questions
outer edges identified
of architectural in our
theory and discussion
practice, and
allowing us research will
to reflect on thebe a central
nature of
architectural expertise and on the horizons and the limits of design thinking.
component of the class’s work, and will link our efforts to current speculations within the
discipline.

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Pedagogical Goals
1. Acquire critical and representational tools to speculate on the architectures of housing
both as a discursive and a design endeavor.
2. Verbally and visually communicate architectural concepts in multiple media formats.
3. Understand historical genealogies and theoretical debates relating to the architectures of
housing in the modern and contemporary periods.
4. Relate these genealogies and debates to contemporary challenges and current practices of
housing.
5. Develop tools of design research.

Prerequisites
Students should be familiar with architectural techniques of representation, and should have
taken at least one design studio prior to taking this course.

Andres Jaque, “Hoime Urbanisms” (2012)

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B. CLASS FORMAT
The class will meet twice a week: Mondays will be dedicated for seminar discussions, while
Wednesdays will be reserved for activities related to the development of workshop exercises.
The course will be structured around two blocks of readings articulating the discussion
sessions and two main exercises organizing the workshop. Two special sessions of seminar
activities with planned in the weeks with the workshop pin-ups corresponding to each of the
exercises.

Discussion Sessions
SPACES
Defining an outside
- Mark Wigley, “Untitled: The Housing of Gender” in Sexuality & Space (New York: Princeton
Architectural, 1992), 332-65
-Robin Evans, "Figures, Doors and Passages" in Translations from Drawing to Building (London:
Architectural Association, 1997), 56-90
-Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" in The Arcades Project (Cambridge:
Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1999), 14-26
Additional readings:
-Debora Silverman, "The Brothers de Goncourt: Between History and the Psyche" in Art Nouveau in Fin-de-
Siècle France: Politics of Psychology, and Style (Oakland: University of California Press, 1989)
-Theodor Adorno, "Interieur" in Kierkegaard, Construction of the Aesthetic (Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press, 1989)

Facing the inside

-Gaston Bachelard, excerpts from The Poetics of Space (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), 3-37
-Diana Fuss, "Freud's Ear" in The Sense of an Interior (New York: Routledge, 2004)
-Beatriz Colomina, " Intimacy and Spectacle,” in AA files n.20 (Autumn 1990), 5-14
Additional readings:
-Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny" in The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London:
Vintage, 2001)
-Anthony Vidler, "Houses" in The Architectural Uncanny (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992), 17-44

Sigmund Freud´s house and consulting

(1930), as conceptualized by Beatriz
Adolf Loos, Moller House in Vienna

room in Vienna (1891-38)

Colomina (1994)

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Neighbor spaces
-Hanna Arendt, "The Polis and the Household" and "The Rise of the Social" in The Human Condition
(Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 22-49
-Dolores Hayden, "Collectivizing the Domestic Workplace," Lotus n. 44 (1989), 72-89
-Eve Blau, "ISOTYPE and modern architecture in Red Vienna" in Use matters: An alternative history of
architecture, Kenny Cupers ed. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 15-34
- Niklas Maak, “After the House, beyond the Nuclear Family,” in Living complex : from zombie city to the
new communal (Munich: Hirmer, 2015), 136-159
Additional readings:
-Le Corbusier, “Freedom through order” and “On repetition or mass production,” in The City of Tomorrow
and Its Planning [1929] (New York: Dover Publications, 1987), 211-231
-Gwendolyn Wright, "The New Suburban Expansion and the American Dream," Building the Dream: A
social History of Housing in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 240-261

Technological domesticities
-Georges Teyssot, "Water and gas on all floors," Lotus n. 44 (1989), 83-92
-Reyner Banham, "A Home is not a House" in Penny Sparke ed. Design by Choice (London: Academy
Editions, 1981), 70-79
-Beatriz Colomina, “The Office in the Boudoir” in Office US: Agenda (Zurich: Lars Muller, 2014), 81-88
-Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late
Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge,
1991), 149-155
Additional readings:
-Sigfried Gideon, excerpts from "Mechanization encounters the Household" in Mechanization Takes
Command (New York: W.W.Norton and Company, 1969)
-Anthony Vidler "Homes for Cyborgs" in The Architectural Uncanny (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1992)
-Shundana Yusaf, "The English House in the Age of Its Wireless Dispersion" in Broadcasting Buildings,
Architecture on the Wireless 1927-1945 (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2014)
-James Hay, "The 21st Century Hotel—Your Media/Home Away from Home," in David B. Clarke et al. ed.
Moving Pictures/Stopping Places (Lexington Books, 2009), 371-37

Object arrangements
-Jean Baudrillard, "Structures of Interior Design" in The System of Objects (London: Verso, 1996) 30-62
-Christopher Reed, "A Room of One's Own: The Bloomsbury Group's Creation of a Modernist
Domesticity," in Not at Home (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), 147-160
-Jesse LeCavalier, “Stuff During Logistics,” in After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the
Ways We Stay in Transit (Zurich: Lars Muller, 2016), 166-178
Additional readings:
-Karl Marx, The Fetishm of the Commodity and its Secrets" in Capital. A critique of political economy
(London: Penguin Classics, 1990)
-Greg Castillo "Household affluence and its discontents" in Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of
Mid Century Design (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010)

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TERRITORIES
Planned Communities
-Robert Moses, “Mr. Moses Dissects the ‘Long-Haired Planners’” and Jane Jacobs “from The Death and
Life of Great American Cities” in Joan Ockman ed. Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (New York: Columbia
Books, 1993), 55-63 and 338-340
-Kenny Cupers, “The expertise of participation,” in The social project : housing postwar France
(Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 137-183
-Andrew Herscher, “’Blight,’ Spatial Racism, and the Demolition of the Housing Question in Detroit,” in
Housing after the Neoliberal Turn (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2015), 39-46
Additional reading:
-Reinhold Martin, “Territory,” in Utopia's ghost: architecture and postmodernism, again (Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 1-26
-Mariana Fix, “The Real Estate Circuit and (the Right to) the City: Notes on the Housing Question in Brazil” in
Housing after the Neoliberal Turn (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2015), 13-20

World Dwelling
-Pierre Bourdieu, "The Berber House or the World Reversed" in Social Science Information n.9 (1970),
151-170
-Pamela Karimi, "Dwelling, Dispute and the Space of Modern Iran" in Aggregate ed. Governing by
Design (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2012), 119-139
-Justin McGuirk, “From Lima to Santiago: A Platform for Change” in Radical Cities: Across Latin America in
Search of a New Architecture (London and NY: Verso, 2014), 108-127
Additional readings:
-Aldo Van Eyck et al., "A Miracle of Moderation" in Charles Jencks and George Baird ed. Meaning in
Architecture (New York: Brazilier, 1969)
-Felicity Scott, "Bernard Rudolfsky: Allegories of Nomadism and Dwelling" in Sarah Williams Goldhagen
and Rejean Legault ed. Anxious Modernisms (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), 215-234
-Homi Bhabha, "The world and the home," Social Text 10.2-3 (1992), 141-151
-Sarah Lynn Lopez,"The Remittance House: Dream Homes at a Distance" in The Remittance Landscape:
Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015)
Diagram of the Berber House as conceptualized by

Introduction of the Electrolux refrigerator in Iran,

Tehran musavvar n.385 (1950)
Pierre Bourdieu

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Infrastructures of Transience
-Michel Agier, “The Desert, The Camp and The City,” in On the Margins of the World (Malden, Mass:
Polity Press, 2008), 39-72
-Ijlal Muzaffar, “Prisoners of the Present: Transient Populations, Sovereign Thoughts, and
Depoliticization of Housing in the Postwar Era,” in After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of
the Ways We Stay in Transit (Zurich: Lars Muller, 2016), 166-178
Additional readings:
-Zygmunt Bauman "Tourists and Vagabonds" in Globalization: The Human Consequences (Hoboken: John
Wiley & Sons, 1998)
-Edward Said, “Reflections on exile,” [1984] in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press, 2000)
-Romola Sanyal, "Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement,” International Journal of Urban
and Regional Research, Vol. 38.2 (March, 2014)

Financial Landscapes
-Frederik Engels, excerpts from The Housing Question (New York: International Pub., 1935), 43-77
-Reinhold Martin, “Real Estate Agency” in Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler ed.,
The Art of Inequality" (New York: The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American
Architecture, 2015), 92-128
Additional readings:
-Jonathan Massey, "Risk and Regulation in the Financial Architecture of American Houses" in Aggregate
ed. Governing by Design (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2012)
-David Madden and Peter Marcuse, In Defense of Hosing (London and NY: Verso, 2016), excerpts

Homelessness and the Urban Commons

- Rosalyn Deutsche, "Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless Projection and the site of urban revitalization," in
Evictions (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996), 3-48
-David Harvey, "The creation of the Urban Commons," in Rebel Cities (New York: Verso, 2009), 67-88
Additional readings:
-Peter Marcuse, “Neutralizing Homelessness,” in Tamara L. Roleff ed. The Homeless: Opposing Viewpoints
(San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1990)
-Krzysztof Wodiczko, “Conversations about a project for a homeless vehicle,” October n.47 (Winter 1988)

Krzysztof Wodiczko, “The Homeless

Empty condominiums in downtown

Vehicle” Project (1988)

Toronto (2013)

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of the selected Workshop Exercises
case study and will rehearse one system of
Students will
hem. Each exercise offers two develop two topics
alternative analysesforof the selected case study and will rehearse one system of
will be started with a discussion of the topics and them. Each exercise offers two alternative topics for
representation to address each of
ed, followed bystudents to and
deskcrits address. Each class
collective exercise will be started with a discussion of the topics and
w pin-up. The two exercises will be compiledexplored,
representation systems to be followed by deskcrits and collective class
for the final
discussions,
words) and a summary image. and will end in a review pin-up. The two exercises will be compiled for the final
review, adding a summary text (400 words) and a summary image.
offered in the first class, but students are invited to present
ude: An apartment A selection
buildingofincase studies will
Chinatown, a be offered in the first class, but students are invited to present
ing, a NYCHA public housing development, a include:
their own options. These might squattedAn apartment building in Chinatown, a
ess shelter, a co-housing project (such as Pure House), aa NYCHA public housing development, a squatted
Barnard/Columbia dormitory building,
housingand
as 432 Park Avenue), (such as C-squat),
a recent a homeless shelter, a co-housing project (such as Pure House), a
micro-housing
e). recent high end development (such as 432 Park Avenue), and a recent micro-housing
development (such as Carmel Place).

EXERCISE 1
Typologies: This analysis should address EXERCISE 1
the spatial organization of the case study a Typologies: This analysis should address
Typologies: Gillows and Co., Furnishings for

stake, its constitutive formal features, and the spatial organization of the case study a
their historical evolution in relation to the stake, its constitutive formal features, and
development of NYC housing. their historical evolution in relation to the
Representational strategies should address development of NYC housing.
a small drawing room (1822)

these questions with a critical use of Representational strategies should address

isometric or perspective drawings. these questions with a critical use of
isometric or perspective drawings.
Individual Occupations: Martha Rosler, “Semiotics

Individual Occupations: This approach to

the exercise aims to deal with the ways in Individual Occupations: This approach to
which the selected case study is the exercise aims to deal with the ways in
appropriated by a user, and will document which the selected case study is
the different objects and technologies that appropriated by a user, and will document
mediate this process of occupation. A the different objects and technologies that
documentary photo journal will be used to mediate this process of occupation. A
address the relations between spaces, documentary photo journal will be used to
address the relations between spaces,
of the Kitchen” (1975)

inhabitants, programs, and meanings.

inhabitants, programs, and meanings.

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 EXERCISE 2
Policies: This examination of the case study
we will deal with 麼辦
如果房東不作維修我應該怎
the? political and legal 如果我的房東想把我驅 EXERCISE
趕我該怎麼辦 ? 2
LAN DLO RD MY LANDLORD IS
frameworks
WHAT CAN I DO IF MY
structuring the limitations and WHANG T CAN I Policies:
DO IF
This examination of the case study
WON’T MAKE REPAIRS? TRYI TO KICK ME OUT?
possibilities of the particular housing we will deal with the political and legal 以騷擾的手段
1 把你的問題記錄下來 撥打 311, 讓市政府
HARASSING YOU 保護自己!
迫使你搬家是
$ LEASE
2

project being considered. Research frameworks structuring the limitations and

PAID

TO MAKE YOU MOVE ELF!

派人來檢問題
違法行為! 請
寫信向你的房東反映問題, 以掛號信 PROTECT YOURS
將房間裡有問題 撥打電話時請記下他們
寄出去而保存好收據。 IS ILLEGAL! FIND
於此參考你所
的地方拍照。
請用 請在線等待, 一直到聽到中文 給你的編號 , 並在下次撥 不要用現金來支付房租;請用 每次付房租時向房東拿據。 確保你的家屬配偶以及你住所裡
如果房間裡沒有暖氣,做一個表格來 能顯示日期與時 提示為止。 打電話時告知他們你的 OUT MORE ABOUT
擁有的權力
支票或銀行匯票等形式支付。 的其他人都包含在你的租約內。
記錄房間內和樓宇外的溫度。 間的相機拍照。 3 1 1 編號。 ... WHAT YOUR RIGHTS
Get a receipt from your landlord

should be made available though policy

在專人來看問題以前請不斷

possibilities of the particular housing

Don’t pay rent with cash; use a every time you pay the rent. Make sure the names of your spouse

KEEP TRACK OF THE PROBLEM Take photos of the

撥打電話。你撥打電話的次數 打電話時請盡可能詳細 ARE HERE… check or money order. and others living in your apartment
are included on the lease.
problem. Use a 越多他們越會重視。請不要擔 描述問題 。每次打電話都
Write a letter about the problem to your
landlord and send it by certified mail so camera that shows 心他們會因此而生你的氣。 請盡量使用相同的辭彙。
you can prove when you sent it. Keep a the date and time
when the photos
copy for yourself. CALL 311 TO GET THE CITY Write down the reference

diagrams rendering those frameworks and project being considered. Research

were taken. number they give you when
If you don’t have heat, keep a list of TO INSPECT THE PROBLEM

Policies: Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP),

the temperature in your apartment at you call, and mention it

寒冬裡沒有暖氣!
Stay on the phone until you when you call again.
different days and times.
receive instructions in Chinese.
Be as specific as possible A tenant told me she won in
Call many times, until they come when you describe the court. She thought she would get
evicted, but because she had
法律上將此認定為 “立即危害健
see the problem. The more times problem, and make sure
called 311 and the landlord had 康” 的情況。你應當提起緊急訴

their potentials visible. should be made available though policy

you call, the more important the to use the same words so many violations on record,
issue will be to them. Don’t worry; every time. the landlord couldn’t evict them. 訟以確保供暖。
they won’t get mad at you!
— THERE’S NO HEAT
Resident of 61 Delancey and
member of CAAAV’s Chinatown AND IT’S WINTER!
Tenants Union
個住客告訴我他上法庭 The law says this is an “immediately
上贏了。本來他以為會被 hazardous “condition. You should

diagrams rendering those frameworks and

驅趕的，可是因為他那裡 file an emergency lawsuit to get

3 如果通過以上方式
the heat turned on.
你可以通過《唐人住客協 如需緊急訴訟, 請到中央街111號的 有打 311 而房東有多少違
規的條例在 311記錄下
會》之類的社區組織以取
不能解決問題,你可 得相關幫助。
“房屋法庭” 找一位 “HP 專員” 辦理。 來，所以房東沒辦法趕
他們走。
以通過房屋法庭來 如果遇到冬天供暖、熱水
你可以在法院要求翻譯服務。在遞交
訴訟的一周左右,你就能向法官陳述 —61 號地蘭西街住客，

告房東以迫使他做

their potentials visible.

之類的緊急問題糾紛,
出維修。 你可以提起緊急訴訟。
You should get a community
IF THAT DOESN’T WORK, organization, like CAAAV,
YOU CAN GO TO HOUSING to help you with this.
COURT AND FILE A For URGENT PROBLEMS, like
if you don’t have heat or hot
LAWSUIT AGAINST YOUR
water in the winter, you can
LANDLORD SO HE HAS TO file an emergency lawsuit.
MAKE REPAIRS.
住客協會會員
問題。在見到法官之前,請堅持撥打
311求助電話。
To do this, go to Housing Court at 111
Centre Street, and ask to see the HP
我有一個朋友問我房東準備給他買斷。
clerk to file an “emergency HP action.”
我說,他如果拿那筆錢拿過來, 錢都是用
You can ask for interpreters in court. 在房租上,而且很難找到租金管制
You will present your problem to a judge 的房子的。我叫他不要收那筆錢。
我的房東以金錢許諾,想讓我搬走。 我的房東不允許我留宿訪
in about a week. Keep calling 311 while
法律上允許房東看證
you are waiting to see the judge.
客,並向他們索要證件。 件,但是禁止將之保存
—74 號包厘街住客，住客協會會員
請不要接受! 搬入沒有租金管制的樓宇或許現在便宜,
I have a friend whose landlord tried to
或影印。
pay him to move out. I told him that if 但就長久而言你的花費要更多! MY LANDLORD SAYS MY GUESTS Under the law, landlords
he took the money, rent [for a new
can ask to see identification,
apartment] would use it all up…it’s
MY LANDLORD IS OFFERING ME ARE NOT ALLOWED TO STAY AND but can’t keep it or make
really hard to find rent-stabilized housing…
I told him not to take the money.
MONEY TO MOVE OUT OF THE BUILDING. ASKS THEM FOR IDENTIFICATION. copies of it.
—Residents of 74 Forsyth and member
of CAAAV’s Chinatown Tenants Union Don’t accept! Moving to
housing that isn’t rent-
stabilized may be cheaper
now, but it will be more

Rent Regulations RIghts

4 與其單獨要求維修住房,不如聯同其他住戶 說服住客一起合起來…其實很難的。 我
一同提出要求。這樣往往更加行之有效。 們叫他們［試試看］出來參加會議…如
果人家看到有力量的話他們會團結起
來的［而］我們團結起來才有力量的!
IT CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE TO ASK FOR REPAIRS
AS A GROUP, INSTEAD OF ON YOUR OWN. —61 號地蘭西街和 135 號地威臣街住客,
住客協會會員
expensive in the long run!
Convincing other tenants to come
$
together...its hard. We ask them to
come out for a meeting...if people see
there’s power they’ll come together.
We can only have power if we unite!

投訴的人越多, 房東就越 其他樓宇的住客成功地

—Residents of 61 Delancey and 135 Division

須要對問題作出回覆。 聚集過。
The more people who are Other groups of tenants
complaining, the more the have been successful in
landlord will have to respond. joining together.

社區組織可以協助你群
策群力來解決問題。 我的房東正在通過裝修 “重大資產改善”是什麼 ? 我的房東把我鎖
There are organizations that 樓宇的方式來漲房租。 › MCI 是對建築進行大規模的改進（而不是維修）,從而使全 在外面了!
can help you join together to 樓住客受益的行為。其中包括柏門外樓梯、走廊、大廳以及
get problems fixed. 業主通常用“重大資產改善 ” 公用地方的裝修改造。房東期望通過改造以上設施來收取 這是違法行為!
的方式來增長全樓的租金。 更高租金。
如果你的房東想要驅趕你,
社會組織或能幫你跟律 如果因此產生過多噪音與 › 你收到關於MCI的通知函時，能在30天之內對其進行質疑 他要通過房屋法庭要求法官
師取得建議或許幫助。 粉塵將會被視為騷擾,你可以 或者要求更多時間反應。
決定到底可不可以驅趕你。
They can help you to get access 此提起訴訟。 › 住客只有在認定花費過高的時候才能對MCI進行質疑。
to lawyers. 驅逐的流程將延續數月。在此
› 如果想要就大樓供貨以及設備花費進行質疑,你可以向房 期間你有權居住在你的柏門裡
MY LANDLORD IS 東索要各項花費的明細清單。

RENOVATING THE BUILDING WHAT’S AN MCI? MY LANDLORD

TO RAISE THE RENT › MCIs are large improvements (not repairs) to the building, LOCKED ME OUT!

家並肩保障我
meant to benefit all of the building’s tenants. They are things
Major Capital Improvements (MCIs) outside your apartment in the stairs, halls, and lobby. The
單獨的住客有時在法 如果你遇到物業問題, 租金管制的住客曾經集
This is illegal!

與社區居民大
are often used by landlords to increase landlord wants to spend more on these because it will allow
him to charge more rent. If your landlord wants to evict
庭上也能贏,但是真正 你的鄰居們大多也在面 體贏得重要保障,而使所
all of the rents in your building. If these

是負擔得起的
cause a lot of noise and dust this can › You might receive a letter about MCIs and can challenge them you, you have to be given a notice
的成功案例都是來自 臨相同的問題。 有紐約居民都受益。
within 30 days.

們的社區繼續
be considered harassment and you can of eviction. The eviction process
file a lawsuit. › Tenants can only challenge MCIs if they think the costs are can take months, and you can stay
集體行動。
too high. in your apartment during that time.

Y WHO
IF YOU’RE HAVING A PROBLEM, RENT-STABILIZED TENANTS › To challenge the cost of building supplies and equipment you
MUNIT YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE HAVE ORGANIZED TOGETHER TO can get a list from your landlord showing what each item costs.

IN THE COM
INDIVIDUAL TENANTS CAN
PROBABLY EXPERIENCING WIN IMPORTANT PROTECTIONS
JOIN OTHERS TOGETHER TO KEEP
SOMETIMES WIN IN COURT,
BUT THE REAL SUCCESSES THE SAME THING. THAT ALL NEW YORKERS
NG BENEFIT FROM.
ARE WORKI HOOD AFFORDABLE
COME FROM ORGANIZING
AND COLLECTIVE ACTION.

OUR NE IGH BOR

Collective Practices: Chris Ware, Building Stories (2012)

welcometoCUP.org

Collective Practices: This study will

consider the different systems of
organization at play in the housing project Collective Practices: This study will
under examination, addressing the way in consider the different systems of
which those enact or challenge the organization at play in the housing project
buildings social and political frameworks. under examination, addressing the way in
These practices will be represented which those enact or challenge the
through the deployment of a narrative in buildings social and political frameworks.
the form of a graphic novel. These practices will be represented
through the deployment of a narrative in
the form of a graphic novel.

”x17” spreads. The first of them should be dedicated to

example, a representation of historical information, an
Each exercise
of evidence mobilized, should
interview unfold in
transcripts, or3a11”x17” spreads. The first of them should be dedicated to
the research
n the narrative among process
others. including,
Students for example,
will present 8 a representation of historical information, an
mester, 3 for each exerciseof
explanation andthe2different
with the summary.
pieces of evidence mobilized, interview transcripts, or a
description of the agents included in the narrative among others. Students will present 8
ousing can be found
11”x17”in:spreads at the end of the semester, 3 for each exercise and 2 with the summary.
d Public Policy in the United States
Background
in New York City: Dwelling Typeinformation on NYC
and Social Changehousing
in thecan be found in:
- Alfred Mediolo, Housing Form and Public Policy in the United States
- Richard Plunz, History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the
American Metropolis

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C. EVALUATION AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY
Student’s final grade will consider both seminar participation and workshop exercises in the
following percentages:

Seminar: 30%
Preparation of seminar discussion: 15%
To prepare the seminar sessions, students should bring to class either a written question
responding to the readings, an image addressing the topics considered in the readings, or a news
item related to the readings, for collective evaluation in the class.
Participation in seminar discussions: 15%

Workshop: 70%
Exercise 1: 25%
Exercise 2: 25%
Final Compilation (including revised exercises): 20%

Attendance
Attendance to all course meetings is mandatory. If you have a good reason for missing class,
please inform the professor by email beforehand. Otherwise, every unexcused absence after
the second one will lead to a reduction of the grade in fragments of one-third of a letter
grade (A- to B+). More than four unexcused absences will lead to an automatic failure in the
course.

Academic Integrity
Statement on academic integrity: “The intellectual venture in which we are all engaged
requires of faculty and students alike the highest level of personal and academic integrity. As
members of an academic community, each one of us bears the responsibility to participate in
scholarly discourse and research in a manner characterized by intellectual honesty and
scholarly integrity.” The full statement can be found at
www.college.columbia.edu/academics/integrity/statement.

We expect that students will work in accordance with their honor code. You can find them at
www.barnard.edu/dos/honorcode and www.college.columbia.edu/honorcode

Academic integrity violations in this class will be referred to the Dean’s Discipline process.

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D. SCHEDULE

Wednesday 9/7 Introduction

Monday 9/12 S1:SPACES. Defining an outside

Wednesday 9/14 W1: Presentation and discussions of case studies.

Monday 9/19 S2: SPACES. Facing the inside

Wednesday 9/21 W2: EXERCISE 1. Class discussion

Monday 9/26 S3: SPACES. Neighbor spaces

Wednesday 9/28 W3: EXERCISE 1. Desckrits

Monday 10/3 S4: SPACES 4. Technological domesticities

Wednesday 9/28 W4: EXERCISE 1. Class discussion

Monday 10/10 S5: SPACES 5. Object arrangements

Wednesday 10/12 W5: EXERCISE 1. Deskcrit

Monday 10/17 W7: EXERCISE 1. Pin-up

Wednesday 10/19 S6: SPACES. Seminar activities

Monday 10/24 S7: TERRITORIES. World Dwelling

Wednesday 10/26 W8: EXERCISE 2. Class discussion

Monday 10/31 S8: TERRITORIES. Planned Communities

Wednesday 11/2 W9: EXERCISE 2. Deskcirts

Monday 11/7 Election Day

Wednesday 11/9 W10: EXERCISE 2. Class discussion

Monday 11/14 S9: TERRITORIES. Infrastructures of Transience

Wednesday 11/16 W11: EXERCISE 2. Deskcrit

Monday 11/21 W11: EXERCISE 2. Pin-up

Wednesday 11/23 S10: TERRITORIES. Seminar activities

Monday 11/28 S11: TERRITORIES. Financial Landscapes

Wednesday 11/30 W12: Compilation and Formatting

Monday 12/5 S12: TERRITORIES. Homelessness and the Urban Commons

Wednesday 12/7 W14: Compilation and Formatting

Monday 12/12 Final Review

* Students with Disabilities

Students with disabilities who will be taking this course and may need disability-related
accommodations are encouraged to register in advance with the Office of Disability Services
(ODS) in 008 Milbank for Barnard students or Disability Services at Wien Hall, Main Floor —
Suite 108A for Columbia students.
 

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