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2022/S - HART 228: Introduction to a History of Architecture: Ideal Cities, Canonic Buildings, and the Politics of Rectitude
This course will explore cities, deemed ideal, and buildings, deemed canonic, that operate as imaginary objects and that, all too often, pass as exemplary models to be emulated, be it as social machines, technical accomplishments, or expressions of cultural, if not political, desires.
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2022/S - HART 450/670: Mapping Places in Time: The Temporal Cartography of Cities, Sites, and Events
This course will focus on the evolution of urban form, or the art of living together, in light of existing and emerging communication and representation tools and techniques that make it possible to represent change over time and space. These same tools and techniques prompt a new range of art-historical and cultural questions that bring up new disciplinary issues to be covered during the semester.
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2021/F - HART 512: Platforms of Knowledge in a Wide Web of Worlds
The goal of this seminar is to explore, critique, and experience online platforms in the field of Digital Art History (e.g., image repositories, e-learning, publishing, collaborative research, crowd-sourced, etc.) that uphold the academic mission to disseminate knowledge by enabling teachers, students and researchers to discover, analyze, share information without regard to barriers of space and time, and publish work widely. Advanced digital technologies, after all, do allow researchers to handle large volumes of digitized images and texts, trace patterns and connections formerly hidden from view, recover the past in virtual environments, and bring the complex intricacies of works of art to light as never before. The latest tools and techniques, however, raise questions about what counts as expertise, who controls access to information, what gets lost in translation, what power is likely to shift from educational institutions to profit-seeking companies, how the privileging of quantification and metrics affects humanistic wisdom, and how academic autonomy and diversity can ultimately be disrupted. A final presentation is required.
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2021/F - HIST 366: Rio de Janeiro [w/ Alida Metcalf]
This course is conceptualized as a humanities “design studio” that brings together presentations, discussions, workshops, and reviews. In this studio, students will explore the social and architectural history of an iconic world city as well as learn the fundamentals of ArcGIS Pro, the management of digital assets, and the deployment of geospatial stories in the cloud. Students will have the opportunity to research and publish their own original project online. No prerequisites and no prior experience in the digital humanities is required.
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2021/S - ENST 601: Environmental Humanities Research Forum - Diluvial Houston [w/ Dominic Boyer]
The Environmental Humanities Research Forum meets regularly to share research, teaching, and other activities in the environmental humanities with both members of the Rice community and invited guests. Activities may include: attending lectures and special seminars by visiting scholars; attending and participating in Center for Environmental Studies symposia; working on special projects for the Center for Environmental Studies including participating in arts and other projects especially at the Solar Studios; webinar and lecture series; the center's public-facing website; and more. Evaluation is based on student participation, research and presentations. During Spring 2021, the Research Forum will be conducted by Professors Dominic Boyer and Farès el-Dahdah. The Forum will focus on Houston, a city that faces aqueous environmental threats like no other US city of similar size and scale. The environmental threats that Houston faces have only dramatically increased with the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and what is equally clear is that the city is particularly prone to disenfranchising segments of its population in times of crises.
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2019/2020 - HURC 503: Spatial Studies Graduate Mellon Seminar [w/Joe Carson]
The seminar will introduce students to Spatial Studies as an emerging field of knowledge production, as well as to prominent scholars working in the field. The seminar will be structured around the visits of scholars who will give public lectures during regularly scheduled class time. Also, students will look into ongoing research that not only stems from a surge of scholarly interest in space but that also exploits a vast assortment of information technologies; explore, critique, and experience the modeling and mapping of historic sites and events; and together incubate a multidisciplinary and broadly humanistic collaboration among interested tech innovators, faculty, and students.
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2018/S - HURC 450/650: Spatial Humanities Master Class [w/ Laura Richardson and Kyle G. Sweeney]
The Spatial Humanities Master Class will introduce students to the newly-forming spatial humanities canon, as well as to prominent scholars working in the field. The course will be structured around the visits of nine such scholars, who will give public lectures during regularly scheduled class time. In addition to the public lectures on Thursdays, class meetings on Tuesdays will be used to look into ongoing research that not only stems from a surge of scholarly interest in space but that also exploits a vast assortment of information technologies; explore, critique, and experience the modeling and mapping of historic sites and events; and together incubate a multidisciplinary and broadly humanistic collaboration among interested tech innovators, faculty, and students.
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2016-17 - HURC 303: Rice Seminar: Chronotopic Imaginaries: The City in Signs, Signals, and Scripts [w/ Melissa Bailar]
The ubiquity of today’s connectedness, in addition to the ongoing production, collection, and curation of massive amounts of data, has produced a new textual medium. Made of tweets, posts, messages, chats, etc. (all associated with time, date, and longitude and latitude), this new medium now flows through a pervasive network of computers, tablets, smartphones, PDAs, media players, and GPS navigation units. This “text” needs a new reader, one as critical and perceptive as previous semioticians who interpreted the signs and signals of often equally disruptive literary scripts.
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2015-16 - HURC 403: John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures: Platforms of Knowledge in a Wide Web of Worlds: Production, Participation, and Politics [w/ Melissa Bailar and Lisa Spiro]
Coinciding with the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web’s public debut, the Humanities Research Center at Rice University is hosting a 2015-16 John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The seminar will incubate a broadly humanistic collaboration among tech innovators, visiting scholars, faculty and students. The goal is to explore, critique, and experience digital knowledge platforms (i.e., e-learning, publishing, collaborative research, or crowd-sourced) that uphold our academic mission to disseminate knowledge by enabling teachers, students and researchers to discover, analyze, share information without regard to barriers of space and time, and publish work widely. These same platforms, however, raise questions about what counts as expertise, who controls access to information, what gets lost in translation, what power is likely to shift from educational institutions to profit-seeking companies, how the privileging of quantification and metrics affects humanistic wisdom, and how academic autonomy and diversity are ultimately disrupted.
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2014/S - ARCH/HART 345/645: History and Theory II (pre-1890)
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2013/F - ARCH/HIST 366/666: Rio de Janeiro: A Social and Architectural History [w/ Alida Metcalf]
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2013/S - ARCH/HART 345/645: History and Theory II (pre-1890)
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2012/F - ARCH/HIST 366/666: Rio de Janeiro: A Social and Architectural History [w/ Alida Metcalf]
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2012/S - ARCH/HART 345/645: History and Theory II (pre-1890)
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2011/S - ARCH/HIST 366/666: Rio de Janeiro: A Social and Architectural History [w/ Alida Metcalf]
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2011/S - ARCH 504: Core Design Studio IV (A Mundaneum for Brasilia)
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2010/F - ARCH 459/659: Modern Brazil: Ideal Cities in the Tropics
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2009/F - ARCH 703: Thesis Studio
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2008/S - ARCH/HART 346/646: Architecture and the City II (pre-1968)
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2008/S - ARCH 686: Interpreting Buildings
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2007/F - ARCH 601: Architectural Problems: PPB 50/Oscar 100
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2007/S - ARCH/HART 346/646: Architecture and the City II (pre-1968)
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2007/S - ARCH 686: Interpreting Buildings
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2006/F - ARCH 459/659: Modern Brazil
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2006/S - ARCH/HART 346/646: Architecture and the City II (1850 to 1960)
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2005/F - ARCH 459/660: Modern Brazil
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2005/F - ARCH 703: Thesis Studio
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2004/S - ARCH/HART 346/646: Architecture and the City II (1850 to 1960)
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2004/S - ARCH 701: Pre-Thesis Preparation
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2003/F - ARCH 485/685: Architecture and Society I (Ideal City)
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2003/S - ARCH/HART 346/646: Architecture and the City II (1850 to 1960)
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2003/S - ARCH/HART 346/686: Architecture and Society II (Modern Architecture)
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2003/S - ARCH 701: Pre-Thesis Preparation
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2002/F - ARCH/HART 686: Architecture and Society I (Ideal City)
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2002/S - ARCH 701: Pre-Thesis Preparation
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2001/S - ARCH 431/631: Architecture in Fiction: The Villain's Lair in James Bond
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2001/S - ARCH 701: Pre-Thesis Preparation
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2000/S - ARCH 431/631: Architecture in Fiction
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2000/S - ARCH 701: Pre-Thesis Preparation
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1999/F - ARCH/HART 485/685: Architecture and Society I (Canonicity in Architecture)
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1999/F - ARCH 703: Thesis Studio
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1999/S - ARCH 701: Pre-Thesis Preparation
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1998/F - ARCH 431/631: Architecture in Fiction
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1998/F - ARCH 703: Thesis Studio
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1998/S - ARCH 701: Pre-Thesis Preparation
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1997/F - ARCH 431/631: Architecture in Fiction
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1997/S - ARCH 302/402: Vertical Studio (Cine-Megaplex)
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1996/F - ARCH 429/629: The Work and Text of Architects
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1996/F - ARCH 301: Principles of Architecture III (Truck Stop)
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1996/S - ARCH : Xtra-Architecture
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1996/S - ARCH 602: Option Studio (Houston: Bigger than Big)
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1995/F - ARCH 629: Building Affects: Architecture's Amorous Discourse
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1995/F - ARCH 301: Principles of Architecture III (Casino)
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1994/F - ARCH 627: Minimalizing Architecture
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1994/F - ARCH 301: Principles of Architecture III (Museum)
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1994/S - ARCH 428/628: Architecture's Amorous Discourse
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1994/S - ARCH 302/402: Vertical Studio (Zoo)
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