01.31 _ Research Course _ Final Documents (Rough)

Below you can view a working draft of the collected material:

Group 1 _ History of Architectural Retail Development
Group 2 _ Shopping Center Typologies
Group 3 _ Shopping Centers Bergen Typologies
Group 4 _ Bergen Urban Development (past-present) 
Group 5 _ Bergen Urban Development (future)
Group 6 _ Lagunen Development
Group 7 _ Shopping Center Psychogeography
Group 8 _ Shopping Center Architecture
Group 9 _ Future of Architectural Retail Development

01.20 _ Atlas of the Copenhagens

Lecture by  prof. Deane Simpson at 15:00 in the Large Auditorium

01.19 _ The City Reader Readings

The following three articles from the course reading list are now available here (and on class dropbox). 

Taking Los Angeles apart
Edward Soja

The competitive advantage of the inner city
Michael Porter

The drive-in culture of contemporary America
Robert Fishmann

01.17 _ Graphic Identity

For inspiration, a few references from last Friday's Workshop on Graphic Identity...

Bill Rankin's radicalcartography website, in particular the projects:
Boston – collegetown
Nice, FR
Venice
The United States – Area Codes
The United States –Bill’s America, 
The United States –Erik’s America
North America – Subways
North America –Thin White Line
The World – Time Zones
The World – World Cropland


Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti and Eyal Weizman's Manual of Decolonialization

Joost Grootens' Atlases

01.14 _ Research Course Intro

The Research Course will serve to deconstruct the concept of the shopping center in all of its manifestations: historical, typological, local-global, social-economic-political, theoretical, etc in order to re-build a new collective knowledge to explore the evolution of this complex building/situation and its future. 

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course outline
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01.14 _ Architectures of the (Shopping) Center

Engraving _ Agora (marketplace) _ Athens, Ancient Greece

The 3rd year spring semester will investigate the future of the shopping center as a primary driver of urban development, with a particular focus on the area of Lagunen within Bergen.

Aerial View _ Mall of America _ Minnesota, USA

Interior View _ Mall of America _ Minnesota, USA

01.06 - 01.13 _ Macro Scale

Course Outline (Norwegian only)

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Spring Semester Schedule

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