Vergara, Camilo. Detroit Is on Dry Bones. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2016. Vergara, Camilo. American Ruins: Energies of the Outmolded. New York: Monacelli Press, 1999. Vergara, Camilo. “Tracking COVID.” Urban, no. 160_7 (2021) Vergara, Camilo. “Harlem Intro.” In Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto, 7–20. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. Fishman, Robert. “Camilo Vergara’s Detroit.” In Camilo José Vergara: Detroit Is No Dry Bones, edited by Camilo Vergara,…
Jane Hutton, Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements (Routledge, 2020), selections. https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.yale.idm.oclc.org/lib/yale-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5892429Links to an external site.. Daniel Campo, Postindustrial DIY: Recovering American Rustbelt Icons (Fordham University Press, 2024), selections. Sara Safransky, The City after Property: Abandonment and Repair in Postindustrial Detroit, selections
Observing and documenting public space Readings: Urban Humanities: New Practices for Reimagining the City, eds. Dana Cuff, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Todd Pressner, Maite Zubiaurre, and Jonathan Jae-an Crisman (MIT Press, 2020)
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…
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
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…
Intro: Assignment 3: Print, Multi-media Archives
Due: Building Study Readings: Sara Safransky Detroit, The City After Property: Chapters 3, 6, and 7 (prioritize 6 and 7) Zachary Violette’s book, The Decorated Tenement Intro, 1, 2, and 6 (all priorities)
Seminar Meeting, 220 York Street, Rm. 100 Adrienne Brown, The Residential is Racial, Ch. 4 + 6
A guide to researching a local building that focuses on digital resources and a Word Doc that is the form that we will essentially follow to record our building research are also on Canvas to peruse. Reading responses for this week are below. Readings: Jessica Larson, “The Black Building Environment of Benevolence in New York’s Tenderloin District” Robert W. Craig, “Fire Insurance Records and the Architectural Historian,” Buildings and Landscapes: …
