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ART171 HM - Building Los Angeles

Credit(s): 3

Groves. This course explores the complex network of urban communities in which we live in order that we might think more deeply about the relationship of the built to the natural environment. To complicate our conceptions of Los Angeles, we will consider the city’s his­tory and the massive infrastructure that allows it to function. We will focus for a substantial part of the course on architecture, which can be a profound expression of the relationship between the built and the natural. And we will explore contemporary developments, includ­ing adaptive re-use, the new urbanism, and green design.