Inverted Urbanism: Chicago + Venice: 2 weeks travel, 3 credits elective

Class Objective: This class will focus on the evolutionary nature of urban growth in response to new programs, changes of context and upcoming epoch of future urbanism. Studio will attempt to project future models within the context of the historical city. It will elaborate study of new possibilities of urban form, physical and sociological configuration with consideration of the past, and focus towards the future. It will study the opportunities to redefine and improve urban livability with its integrated city infrastructure. It will implement the possibility of evolving city structure and technology to better use the ecological systems, introduce the opportunity to reduce the carbon level with growing city densification.

Summer Session B Elective June 6–July 30, 8 weeks studio!
Design, planning and research based class will be comparative city studies, developed in collaboration with the faculty of Architecture in Venice, IUAV, where students will be working on similar program and approach for sites in both the Santa Marta District in Venice and the Chicago South Loop. The studio will travel to Venice for two weeks. Class will work as a group and will be conducted mostly in Chicago, continue as 2 weeks
workshop in Venice. Each students will be assign to one task which at the end will be conducted as one comprehensive master planning