ARCH2355 (Architecture Conservation: Intervention, Transformation, and Reuse) course reviews and ratings at Northeastern (NEU). Compare professors with RateMyProfessor reviews.
Examines how architecture and urban design respond to the challenges of intervening in already built environments, whether in the form of adaptation, extension, conservation, radical transformation, or sustainable reuse. Discusses cultural, social, as well as energy-efficiency-related topics. Includes a critical introduction to the key concepts of architectural intervention, followed by some exemplary design cases, and a special focus on recent and contemporary practices. Architecture deals with time, duration, change, and resilience. Places, not unlike palimpsests, retain multiple traces of former uses. Architects work with locations that inevitably contain a diversity of references and preexisting conditions. Students work on a “curatorial project," that is, a conceptual proposal for an ephemeral intervention in an existing site.
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