Jeffrey Sipprell

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January 18, 2006

UCLA Winter Schedule

Winter Schedule is now finalized, though I'm only enjoying it with one hand. Here's what it's shaping up to be:

Advanced Topics Studio - Roger Sherman: An If-Then design studio that examines the Sacramento River Delta as a highly charged political, economic and environmental area. The goal of the studio is to create an architecture, embodied in a house(s), that will situate itself within a multitude of futures - meaning how does a design respond to the variety of social and environmental forces acting on it today as well as those that will possibly happen in the future. It seeks not to illicit change, but rather engage it actively. This studio will also be paired with a GIS seminar that will attempt to exploit the potentials of geographic databases in the intent of mapping and forecasting change.

Research Studio - Greg Lynn: a continuation into the study of contemporary baroque - more on this soon

Synesthesia: Sound and Vision - Jason Payne and Heather Roberge: the design and construction of an acoustic ceiling\wall treatment for the auditorium space within the UCLA AUD known as the DeCafe. Initial design teams are to explore felt, curtains, and surface patterning as a way to work within the parameters set forth by the school - $20k budget, Noncombustible materials and above improved acoustics within the space.

Anxious Aesthetics: Surveillance as Cultural Form - Thomas Levin: a seminar in media theory that will explore teh paranoid logic of surveillance across a series of architectural, theoretical, photographic, cinematic, and televisual manifestations in order to unpack and track the vicissitudes of a category that is at once a political tactic, a narrative strategy, a theory of the subject, an architectural model, a mode of spectatorship and, quite possibly, the key logic of the cinematic medium.

Posted by jsipprell at January 18, 2006 11:47 PM

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