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 Landscapes: Journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum, Vol. 30, No. 1/2, Spring 2023.
Essays by Guy Debord, Situationist International, and others are widely available, read.