Month: March 2025

Reading Responses

April 2

Report briefly on Field Work exercises; submit and assemble photos or anything students want to share. Discuss Project Development James Michael Buckley, “Just Fieldwork:  Exploring the Vernacular in the African American Community in Portland Oregon’s Albina District,” Future Anterior:  Journal of Historic Preservation, History, Theory, and Criticism, Winter 2020, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1 – 16. Sarah Lopez, “A Personal Reflection on People as ‘Subjects’ for Built Environment Research,” Buildings…

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Field Notes

3/26 Field Survey – New Haven Courtyard Housing in Edgewood

During our in-class excursion, I walked an area west of downtown, towards Edgewood, in search of quintessential examples of the New Haven courtyard/garden apartment typology. This housing model arose in the 20th c. in an effort to provide missing middle housing for the potentially walkable residential areas near urban centers. Broadly, the theory behind middle housing (duplex, fourplex, live work, garden apartment, courtyard apartment, etc.) is that by adding density…

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Readings and Screenings

Mar. 26

Readings: Garnette Cadogan, “Walking While Black, Literary Hub, July 8, 2026: https://lithub.com/walking-while-blackLinks to an external site. Elihu Rubin, “Catch My Drift?  Situationist Dérive and Urban Pedagogy,” Radical History Review, Issue 114 (Fall 2012), 175-190

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Readings and Screenings

Mar. 5

Discuss readings, emerging projects, documentation methods Intro:  Field Exercise I – Dérive Readings: Allan B. Jacobs, Looking at Cities (Harvard University Press, 1985). Jahn Gehl and Birgitte Svarre, How to Study Public Life (Island Press, 2013). Arjijit Sen, “Making a Case for Serendipity in Architectural Fieldwork,” Buildings and Landscapes:  Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol. 29, No. 2, Fall 2022. Elaine B Stiles, “Fieldwork Futures:  Historic Preservation,” Buildings and…

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