Class Id: 7961
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Course Id: 3531
Departments and Numbers: ARC 586
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Title: Material Ecologies
Description: Buckminster Fuller once noted that the problem of diminishing global resources & the energy crisis was not one of fundamental lack but one of ignorance, failure of imagination & inability to use resources intelligently. Architecture consumes resources, demands expenditure of vast sums of money, is undeniably involved in the global exchange of energy & capital & the global distribution of material. Inevitably architecture is implicated in the social & environmental effects produced by these systems of exchange. How do architects situate themselves within this ecological need? What impact does it have on architecture as a material practice?
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Professors: Jane C. Harrison
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