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AJ Pires Jared Della Valle
ajpires@alloyllc.com jdellavalle@alloyllc.com
TA (TBD)
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Course Description
This class will identify the basic aspects of real estate design and development and explore some of the key relationships of the many and
layered components. Through lectures, case studies and discussion, the class will strive to teach the critical analysis and constructive thinking
that is the key to contributing positively to the built environment. We will look at projects ranging in size from a single family home to a several
hundred thousand square foot building in markets primarily around New York City. Through these case studies students will be asked to
consider the often divergent value sets of the many stakeholders at hand in the creation of valuable real estate. Topics will include:
• Market Analysis • Acquisition • Pre Development Planning • Scheduling & Budgeting
• Zoning & Design • Marketing & Leasing • Cash Flow Projecting • Pro Forma Development
• Financing • Construction • Valuation • Property Stabilization
Class Format
This class will be taught through our understanding of and working through case studies. Studio work from ARC 609: Developed Design will be
shared with the class to inform our analysis. (If possible, students are strongly encouraged to enroll in ARC 609: Developed Design.)
Assignments from each case will be due weekly and students will be required to present and discuss their assignments regularly. Guests from
around the industry will attend our class throughout the semester including at the conclusion of each case study to provide guest lectures as
well offer outside criticism and review of our work. On November 6 and 7 class will take place in New York. An overnight stay is required. Class
participation is the key to a rewarding experience in this class. Students will be expected to be present at and participate actively in class.
Criteria for Evaluation
No exams, tests or papers are required outside of the weekly case study assignments and in‐class presentations. Work and effort evident in
each assignment and class participation will be the primary criteria from which we will assess student's performance in this class.
Assignments
Case assignment will be given at the end of each class and are due by the end of the day of the following Wednesday. (Assignments received
after 6:00am Thursday will not be accepted.) Email your assignment in PDF format to Jared and AJ. Format your PDF so that it prints cleanly on
8.5" x 11" paper.
Required Textbooks
Real Estate Finance & Investments, Second Edition; Peter Linneman; Linneman Associates; 2004
The Real Estate Dictionary, Seventh Edition; John Talamo JD; Financial Publishing Company; 2001
Weekly Handouts
In addition to assignments and reading, weekly handouts will be provided periodically. The weekly handouts are intended to support the
lectures and assignments. While this material will not be 'tested', an appreciation of the content will help you with each week's assignment.
Resources & Prerequisites
Students will primarily be working in Excel, Powerpoint and visualization tools of their choosing (ACAD, Illustrator, SketchUp, Etc.) There will be
several workshops over the course of the semester to orient students unfamiliar with these tools. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the
class, students will not be expected to have an advanced knowledge of each of these programs, however these tools will be required
throughout the term and at the conclusion of the semester all students should be working at a comparable level. Stated simply, finance
students will be required to present their designs using one of the many software tools available and architecture students will be required to
present financial analysis using Excel.
// Ecology of Cities // Background // In early 2008, we became an urban species, with more
than half of our world population living in cities. Our built environments
SOA : Arc 500 Professional Elective are extreme energy intensive systems, completely out of balance with the
Instructor : Vasilena Vassilev natural environment. How can one begin to understand the complexi-
email: vvassile@syr.edu ties of our urban, political and social systems and the ways in which they
impact our planet? How can architects participate in the impending and
Fall 2010 necessary paradigm shift towards a more viable urban ecosystem?
MW 3:45 - 5:05
101 Slocum Hall // Scope // This course seeks to examine the phenomena of anthropo-
genic effects of various scales and complexity. Lectures will cover the
scientific basis for the study of industrial ecology and systems theory, an
analysis of human development and current urbanization, social and
economic trends and their environmental repercussions, the global foot-
print, and the movement towards a holistic systems thinking in city plan-
ning and development. Weekly reading contribution, the examination
of case studies and methods of critical and quantitative analysis will be
used to support lectures and enrich the learning process.
MARCEL BREUER
Interpretation and Exhibition
Visiting Professor Barry Bergdoll and Prof. Jonathan Massey
Wednesdays 10:35‐1:25
What was modern architecture? How did it interact with the social transformations of
the 20th century? With institutions such as the Bauhaus, MoMA, the United Nations, and
the Catholic church? How do architects use drawings and other media? What can an
archive reveal about the design process? How do museum curators interpret architecture
though exhibition?
Through a sustained engagement with the archive of Marcel Breuer (1902‐81), this new
seminar will explore these questions. Co‐taught by Prof. Jonathan Massey and Barry
Bergdoll, the Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of
Modern Art, the course will provide graduate students and advanced undergraduates
with the opportunity to investigate modern architecture by working with Breuer’s
original drawings and papers, which are housed in the special collections of Bird Library.
Through lectures, workshops, and a field trip to MoMA, Bergdoll and Massey will
introduce students to key topics and themes in Breuer’s life and work, including the
architectural legacy of the Bauhaus; regionalism and internationalism in postwar
modernism; and the relation among design practices at scales ranging from furniture to
urban planning. They will also focus on the analytical and interpretive issues entailed in
working with archival materials, analyzing drawings and buildings, and exhibiting
architecture in the museum. Working individually and in teams, students will conduct
discussions, make presentations, write papers, and develop curatorial proposals for an
exhibition of Breuer’s work.
Enrolment: 15 students
Prerequisites: ARC242 or ARC639 or instructor permission
Contact: Prof. Massey at jmassey@syr.edu
ARC 500/301 This course presents the major
ANCIENT GREEK AND architectural monuments of ancient
Greece and Rome from the early Iron
ROMAN ARCHITECTURE Age (c. 900 BC) to the late Roman
period (c. 350 AD). It investigates the
Professor Gloria Hunt forms, design principles, materials, and
Fall 2010 building techniques developed by
ancient Greek and Roman societies to
M/W 2:15-3:35 provide physical settings for public and
private life. Beginning with the first
impulses toward monumentality in early
Greek sanctuaries and cemeteries, we
will follow the major building types and
their development over time, paying
close attention to the development of
architectural canon and the
circumstances which promoted
flexibility and innovation.
RM 401 Slocum
Prerequisite: None
Enrollment 25 Students
Credits 3
Ref. # 19049
The transformative power of landscape is playing a key role in the evolution and development of
the contemporary public realm. An increased interest in sustainability and current investments in
large scale infrastructure have made this a fortuitous time for designers to test new strategies and
technologies at multiple scales within the discipline and profession of Landscape Architecture.
Strategies such as the gradual unfolding of urbanistic, hydrological and ecological events, as well as
the ability to adapt to successional changes while designing for flexibility, growth and resiliency for
future conditions hold enormous potential for the field..
The complex ecological, infrastructural and biological relationships that characterize landscape are
contingent on the representational methods and techniques that illuminate them. Sections, plans
and perspectives have the normative and adequate mode of projection but as landscape develops in
complexity so do the techniques necessary to represent their processes. The flow diagrams of Field
Operations developed to explain detailed habitat, people and vegetation migrations are an example
of the innovative ways in which designers have chosen to illustrate these hierarchies.
Students are expected complete all assigned readings and come to class prepared to either present
or discuss the weekly presentations or topics. Grading will be based on attendance, class discussions
and completion of assignments.
SEMINAR ABSTRACT
Issued: 27 August 2010
S/ERIALURREAL (RE)PRESENTATION
M I N ( D ) I N G T H E G A P
“Does not the paradox of repetition lie in the fact that one can speak of
repetition only by virtue of the change or difference it introduces into the
mind that contemplates it?”
Gilles Deleuze, Difference and Repetition
"...the proper Deleuzian paradox is that something truly New can only
emerge through repetition. What repetition repeats is not the way the
past effectively was but the virtuality inherent to the past and betrayed by
its past actualization. ”
Slavoj Zizek, Organs Without Bodies - On Deleuze and Consequences
Jasper Johns, Three Flags (1958); Louis Kahn, Yale Center for British Art (1973-77); "Me: Girl Takes Picture of herself every day for
three years." by Ahree Lee (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55YYaJIrmzo); Rem Koolhaas with Zoe Zenghelis, The City of the
Captive Globe (1973); Joan Jonas, Mirror Piece I (1969)
Syracuse University School of Architecture / 2010 Fall / ARC500-M007 / Asst Prof Svetz
Seminar work
will focus on the Simultaneous nature of Analysis and Synthesis in design work, and the potential that a
serialized "representation-to-self" holds out for both working Productivity and richer relationships of
Formal Operation to Formal Content. Work will include:
1 Reading Discussions with Image Submittals & Analyses
2 Design Drawings & Installations (more emphasized than in previous seminars)
3 Writing Responses (less emphasized than in previous seminars)
4 Final Presentation / Folio
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Fall 2010 ARC500
My Stomach Bug is in the Wrong Place :Spaces of Conflict and Efforts of Deflection
Course Description
The course will investigate spaces of contention and appropriation and the desires and devices of control, as
well as deflection as a counter-control measure. We will investigate the macro-scale of national and
international influences and the micro-scale interventions in spaces that embody users’ and designers’
aspirations. The focus is on spaces born of the relationships between developing countries, especially in Africa,
and the North.
Included in our research will be: forms of conflicted spaces, such as planned villages in Rwanda; informal
settlements in Turkey; and courtyards in Ghana. We will consider the policies and concepts that influenced their
morphologies: competing perceptions of Modernism; the “science” of economy; and uneven globalization.
Designers are one of the active players in these conflicted zones, along with the policy makers, development
economists, anthropologists and housewives. In the past, the designers’ remedy of choice against conflicted
spaces was masterplanning, because the questions we asked were: How can we control the conflict? How can
we contain the discontented? How can we make them go away? Instead, in this course we seek spaces that
cheat the masterplanner, redirect the users around the conflict, and allow them to perform their agencies in
often small, incremental but perhaps in more effective ways. The method deflects instead of controls conflicts.
Among the variety of spaces, space makers and their tools, our spotlight is on informal settlements and
villagisation. The former is a housing type often categorized as a slum of squatters in urban peripheries. The
latter is the mass relocation of inhabitants to planned housing complexes for logistical as well as idealistic
purposes. The former is exploding in size worldwide, and the latter has been and will be used to eliminate slums.
We look into tribulations of, hopes for, and the deflection methods in both spaces.
In order to situate informal settlements and planned villages in time and space, the course uses case studies to
survey the history of global exchange and its impacts on cities and hinterlands, and the policies that have
affected urban environments such as colonialism, World Bank-dominant development and grassroots initiatives.
In the final research paper students will analyze conflicted and/or deflected spaces, and speculate ways in which
designers may align with/counter against/ propose alternatives to past and current development trends.
The meaning of the course title shall be revealed in the first class.
School of Architecture Prof. Abbey
Syracuse University Fall 2010
Prerequisite: None
An intense familiarity with the work of the Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, (Charles,
Edouard Jeanneret) was a given in some schools of architecture until quite recently. As the most
th
formally provocative and intellectually complex architect of the 20 century, the number of
publications produced by him, his critics and biographers, fill several shelves. Contemporary
practice from the work of Meier and Graves to that of Koolhaas remains indebted to a profound
understanding of his work. The task for contemporary students is how to sort through the
enormous amount of available documentation and to frame an understanding of it for today’s
discourse and practice
This lecture course will examine his work from several vantage points; biographical data
and career development, specific themes of urban theory and social progress, his artistic
production as a painter, and his formal architectural strategies. The course will consist of a lecture
each week on Wednesday followed by a class discussion session with assigned readings each
week .
Students should be prepared to discuss issues presented in the weekly lectures and to
present additional information to the class based on the assigned readings.
Attendance is mandatory. From time to time students will be required to memorize plans,
diagram strategies and make analytical studies of selected projects. A final paper is required of
no less than 10 pages on a topic to be selected in consultation with me. Grades will be based on
class attendance, class participation and assigned work.
Office hours are from 9:00 -12:00 Thursday, Room 308C Slocum Hall
My E-mail address is bjabbey@syr.edu
ARC 566
Fall 2010
Prof. Lustbader
W 10:30-1:25
coding:drawing
This course will introduce students to the
fundamentals of computer graphics programming using
the Processing language. Directed toward a rethinking
of what it means to draw with, rather than on
computers, the course will cover a range of parametic
drawing techniques, from simple linear scripting
to object-based 3D graphics. No prior experience
in programming is necessary, as Processing is very
accessible to the beginner. However, a comfort
with computers and 2D & 3D computer graphics
applications is a must.
ARC 573 Syracuse University School of Architecture Fall 2010
Savannah, Georgia
Boston, Massachusetts
Scope: This reading-intensive seminar considers historical antecedents and utopian visions underlying early American town and building form.
Introductory material investigates utopia as a social-cultural mode and is followed by comparative case studies of Boston, Charleston and
Savannah, exploring changing urban ideals manifested in their urban contexts.
Objectives:
The course will compare the early pattern of development in selected American cities to consider the:
• philosophical and ethical confrontation with ‘new world’ development and concepts of the ‘savage’
• influence of historic precedent and utopian vision on the form of US eastern seaboard cities, along with consequent deformations
• pre-industrial development of an American vision of the city and the growth in importance of landscape within concepts of the ‘urban’
Course Requirements:
COURSE
This seminar course will address the subject of urban housing, specifically the residential block and
residential square, from a historical and contemporary perspective. The lectures by the instructor within the
course will cover the settlements from the Greeks and Romans to exemplary housing projects of the
twentieth century associated with the Modern Movement in architecture to contemporary urban design
theories and associated housing projects.
OBJECTIVES
If the city is the most critical context for the work of the architect, it is, therefore, important for the architect
to understand the basic building block of the city, the dwelling unit and the variety of its collective form.
To gain knowledge of urban housing also requires the study of city planning and the related urban design
and architectural issues of theory and practice.
FORMAT
The lectures by the instructor, class discussion, and student presentations of two research assignments will
constitute the class schedule during the semester. A two hour final examination consisting of optional
essays (take home questions) will be given during the University final exam week.