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HOUSING COMPLEX: SPACES AND TERRITORIES OF HABITATION (version 9/7/2016)

Fall 2016 ARCH UN3312_001 Special Topics Room TBC, The Diana Center

Prof. Ignacio G. Galán, igalan@barnard.edu Office: 503 B, 212-854-8001

Office Hours: Wed. 4:00-6:00PM

A. COURSE DESCRIPTION This class will offer a critical and speculative platform to analyze the architectures of housing through seminar discussions and workshop exercises. Housing is a central topic for disciplinary discussion and practice: while the house is many times regarded as the realm of intimacy and retreat from the outside world, we will address housing as an architecture central to the organization of society, and will inspect its relation to changing cultural and technological frameworks, economic processes, and political arrangements. We will study housing as it is defined through spatial configurations and territorial arrangements. We will consider how housing structures ways of being together, and how it draws realms of inclusion and exclusion at different scales—defining domains of domesticity and foreignness. We will additionally explore how these definitions are not constructed by architectural elements alone, but are additionally constituted through technological networks, arrangements of objects, and institutional policies, which result in diverse individual occupations and collective forms of organization. The discussion component of the class will bring into focus different theoretical frameworks and will consider historical transformations of the architectures of housing throughout the last century. Workshop exercises will ground this inquiry through research on contemporary case studies in New York City. The development and rehearsal of systems of representation adequate to address the questions identified in our discussion and research will be a central component of the class’s work, and will link our efforts to current speculations within the discipline.

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PERCEPTIONS OF ARCHITECTURE! ! ! ! ! ! Version 1.0V3117, Spring 2016 Mondays (lectures): 4:10 - 5:25, Diana 504

Wednesdays (Seminars): 4:10 - 5:25A: Diana 504, B: Altschul 530, C: Altschul 805

Lecturer & Section Leader: Ralph Ghoche, rghoche@barnard.edu,Office Hours: Wed. 1:10-3pm, 500K Diana

Section Leader: James Graham, jdg2153@columbia.eduSection Leader: Leah Meisterlin, lmeister@barnard.edu

COURSE DESCRIPTIONThe object of the course is to introduce students to the discipline of architecture as a discursive field. The course aims to foster a critical understanding and awareness of some of the decisive ideas, theories and debates relating to architecture and urbanism over the past century and beyond.

Perceptions of Architecture is organized thematically into three parts. The first, “Architecture, a Brief History,” casts a wide historical net, examining architecture from its shadowy beginnings (the tomb, the stone, the tree) to its (dematerialized) present state. The purpose here is to interrogate the profession: what is the architect’s role and how has it changed? What questions and challenges are faced by architects in the design process? What is the architect’s responsibility vis-a-vis the larger public sphere? This first of three parts will foreground the role that urban and spatial organization play in the construction of social practices, human subjectivities and political awareness.

The second part, “Concepts and Representations,” will shift the focus from the architect to the building by examining key elements of architectural design: the drawing, space, construction and the plan. The goal here is to develop in students a more intimate sense of the way that architects conceive, develop and translate ideas into built form.

The third part, “Architecture in the Expanded Field,” takes its title from Rosalind Krauss’ pivotal essay on the land art sculpture movement in the 1970s. Krauss argued that sculptors had effaced all identifying markers of their discipline to the extent that their work could only be determined by a series of negative propositions (not-landscape, not-architecture, not-sculpture, etc...). This final part of the course seeks to interrogate the outer edges of architectural theory and practice, allowing us to reflect on the nature of architectural expertise and on the horizons and the limits of design thinking.

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Pedagogical Goals 1. Acquire critical and representational tools to speculate on the architectures of housing both as a discursive and a design endeavor. 2. Verbally and visually communicate architectural concepts in multiple media formats. 3. Understand historical genealogies and theoretical debates relating to the architectures of housing in the modern and contemporary periods. 4. Relate these genealogies and debates to contemporary challenges and current practices of housing. 5. Develop tools of design research. Prerequisites Students should be familiar with architectural techniques of representation, and should have taken at least one design studio prior to taking this course.

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B. CLASS FORMAT The class will meet twice a week: Mondays will be dedicated for seminar discussions, while Wednesdays will be reserved for activities related to the development of workshop exercises. The course will be structured around two blocks of readings articulating the discussion sessions and two main exercises organizing the workshop. Two special sessions of seminar activities with planned in the weeks with the workshop pin-ups corresponding to each of the exercises. Discussion Sessions SPACES Defining an outside - Mark Wigley, “Untitled: The Housing of Gender” in Sexuality & Space (New York: Princeton Architectural, 1992), 332-65 -Robin Evans, "Figures, Doors and Passages" in Translations from Drawing to Building (London: Architectural Association, 1997), 56-90 -Walter Benjamin, "Paris, Capital of the Nineteenth Century" in The Arcades Project (Cambridge: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1999), 14-26

Additional readings: -Debora Silverman, "The Brothers de Goncourt: Between History and the Psyche" in Art Nouveau in Fin-de-Siècle France: Politics of Psychology, and Style (Oakland: University of California Press, 1989) -Theodor Adorno, "Interieur" in Kierkegaard, Construction of the Aesthetic (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989)

Facing the inside -Gaston Bachelard, excerpts from The Poetics of Space (Boston: Beacon Press, 1969), 3-37 -Diana Fuss, "Freud's Ear" in The Sense of an Interior (New York: Routledge, 2004) -Beatriz Colomina, " Intimacy and Spectacle,” in AA files n.20 (Autumn 1990), 5-14

Additional readings: -Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny" in The Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London: Vintage, 2001) -Anthony Vidler, "Houses" in The Architectural Uncanny (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1992), 17-44

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Neighbor spaces -Hanna Arendt, "The Polis and the Household" and "The Rise of the Social" in The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998), 22-49 -Dolores Hayden, "Collectivizing the Domestic Workplace," Lotus n. 44 (1989), 72-89 -Eve Blau, "ISOTYPE and modern architecture in Red Vienna" in Use matters: An alternative history of architecture, Kenny Cupers ed. (New York: Routledge, 2013), 15-34 - Niklas Maak, “After the House, beyond the Nuclear Family,” in Living complex : from zombie city to the new communal (Munich: Hirmer, 2015), 136-159

Additional readings: -Le Corbusier, “Freedom through order” and “On repetition or mass production,” in The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning [1929] (New York: Dover Publications, 1987), 211-231 -Gwendolyn Wright, "The New Suburban Expansion and the American Dream," Building the Dream: A social History of Housing in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 240-261

Technological domesticities -Georges Teyssot, "Water and gas on all floors," Lotus n. 44 (1989), 83-92 -Reyner Banham, "A Home is not a House" in Penny Sparke ed. Design by Choice (London: Academy Editions, 1981), 70-79 -Beatriz Colomina, “The Office in the Boudoir” in Office US: Agenda (Zurich: Lars Muller, 2014), 81-88 -Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), 149-155

Additional readings: -Sigfried Gideon, excerpts from "Mechanization encounters the Household" in Mechanization Takes Command (New York: W.W.Norton and Company, 1969) -Anthony Vidler "Homes for Cyborgs" in The Architectural Uncanny (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1992) -Shundana Yusaf, "The English House in the Age of Its Wireless Dispersion" in Broadcasting Buildings, Architecture on the Wireless 1927-1945 (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2014) -James Hay, "The 21st Century Hotel—Your Media/Home Away from Home," in David B. Clarke et al. ed. Moving Pictures/Stopping Places (Lexington Books, 2009), 371-37

Object arrangements -Jean Baudrillard, "Structures of Interior Design" in The System of Objects (London: Verso, 1996) 30-62 -Christopher Reed, "A Room of One's Own: The Bloomsbury Group's Creation of a Modernist Domesticity," in Not at Home (London: Thames and Hudson, 1996), 147-160 -Jesse LeCavalier, “Stuff During Logistics,” in After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit (Zurich: Lars Muller, 2016), 166-178

Additional readings: -Karl Marx, The Fetishm of the Commodity and its Secrets" in Capital. A critique of political economy (London: Penguin Classics, 1990) -Greg Castillo "Household affluence and its discontents" in Cold War on the Home Front: The Soft Power of Mid Century Design (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010)

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TERRITORIES Planned Communities -Robert Moses, “Mr. Moses Dissects the ‘Long-Haired Planners’” and Jane Jacobs “from The Death and Life of Great American Cities” in Joan Ockman ed. Architecture Culture 1943-1968 (New York: Columbia Books, 1993), 55-63 and 338-340 -Kenny Cupers, “The expertise of participation,” in The social project : housing postwar France (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 137-183 -Andrew Herscher, “’Blight,’ Spatial Racism, and the Demolition of the Housing Question in Detroit,” in Housing after the Neoliberal Turn (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2015), 39-46

Additional reading: -Reinhold Martin, “Territory,” in Utopia's ghost: architecture and postmodernism, again (Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010), 1-26 -Mariana Fix, “The Real Estate Circuit and (the Right to) the City: Notes on the Housing Question in Brazil” in Housing after the Neoliberal Turn (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2015), 13-20

World Dwelling -Pierre Bourdieu, "The Berber House or the World Reversed" in Social Science Information n.9 (1970), 151-170 -Pamela Karimi, "Dwelling, Dispute and the Space of Modern Iran" in Aggregate ed. Governing by Design (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2012), 119-139 -Justin McGuirk, “From Lima to Santiago: A Platform for Change” in Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture (London and NY: Verso, 2014), 108-127

Additional readings: -Aldo Van Eyck et al., "A Miracle of Moderation" in Charles Jencks and George Baird ed. Meaning in Architecture (New York: Brazilier, 1969) -Felicity Scott, "Bernard Rudolfsky: Allegories of Nomadism and Dwelling" in Sarah Williams Goldhagen and Rejean Legault ed. Anxious Modernisms (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001), 215-234 -Homi Bhabha, "The world and the home," Social Text 10.2-3 (1992), 141-151 -Sarah Lynn Lopez,"The Remittance House: Dream Homes at a Distance" in The Remittance Landscape: Spaces of Migration in Rural Mexico and Urban USA (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2015)

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Infrastructures of Transience

-Michel Agier, “The Desert, The Camp and The City,” in On the Margins of the World (Malden, Mass: Polity Press, 2008), 39-72 -Ijlal Muzaffar, “Prisoners of the Present: Transient Populations, Sovereign Thoughts, and Depoliticization of Housing in the Postwar Era,” in After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces, and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit (Zurich: Lars Muller, 2016), 166-178

Additional readings: -Zygmunt Bauman "Tourists and Vagabonds" in Globalization: The Human Consequences (Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 1998) -Edward Said, “Reflections on exile,” [1984] in Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2000) -Romola Sanyal, "Urbanizing Refuge: Interrogating Spaces of Displacement,” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 38.2 (March, 2014)

Financial Landscapes -Frederik Engels, excerpts from The Housing Question (New York: International Pub., 1935), 43-77 -Reinhold Martin, “Real Estate Agency” in Reinhold Martin, Jacob Moore, and Susanne Schindler ed., The Art of Inequality" (New York: The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, 2015), 92-128

Additional readings: -Jonathan Massey, "Risk and Regulation in the Financial Architecture of American Houses" in Aggregate ed. Governing by Design (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press, 2012) -David Madden and Peter Marcuse, In Defense of Hosing (London and NY: Verso, 2016), excerpts

Homelessness and the Urban Commons - Rosalyn Deutsche, "Krzysztof Wodiczko's Homeless Projection and the site of urban revitalization," in Evictions (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 1996), 3-48 -David Harvey, "The creation of the Urban Commons," in Rebel Cities (New York: Verso, 2009), 67-88

Additional readings: -Peter Marcuse, “Neutralizing Homelessness,” in Tamara L. Roleff ed. The Homeless: Opposing Viewpoints (San Diego, Greenhaven Press, 1990) -Krzysztof Wodiczko, “Conversations about a project for a homeless vehicle,” October n.47 (Winter 1988)

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Workshop Exercises Students will develop two analyses of the selected case study and will rehearse one system of representation to address each of them. Each exercise offers two alternative topics for students to address. Each exercise will be started with a discussion of the topics and representation systems to be explored, followed by deskcrits and collective class discussions, and will end in a review pin-up. The two exercises will be compiled for the final review, adding a summary text (400 words) and a summary image. A selection of case studies will be offered in the first class, but students are invited to present their own options. These might include: An apartment building in Chinatown, a Barnard/Columbia dormitory building, a NYCHA public housing development, a squatted housing (such as C-squat), a homeless shelter, a co-housing project (such as Pure House), a recent high end development (such as 432 Park Avenue), and a recent micro-housing development (such as Carmel Place).

EXERCISE 1 Typologies: This analysis should address the spatial organization of the case study a stake, its constitutive formal features, and their historical evolution in relation to the development of NYC housing. Representational strategies should address these questions with a critical use of isometric or perspective drawings.

Individual Occupations: This approach to the exercise aims to deal with the ways in which the selected case study is appropriated by a user, and will document the different objects and technologies that mediate this process of occupation. A documentary photo journal will be used to address the relations between spaces, inhabitants, programs, and meanings.

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Workshop Exercises Students will develop two analyses of the selected case study and will rehearse one system of representation to address each of them. Each exercise offers two alternative topics for students to address. Each exercise will be started with a discussion of the topics and representation systems to be explored, followed by deskcrits and collective class discussions, and will end in a review pin-up. The two exercises will be compiled for the final review, adding a summary text (400 words) and a summary image. A selection of case studies will be offered in the first class, but students are invited to present their own options. These might include: An apartment building in Chinatown, a Barnard/Columbia dormitory building, a NYCHA public housing development, a squatted housing (such as C-squat), a homeless shelter, a co-housing project (such as Pure House), a recent high end development (such as 432 Park Avenue), and a recent micro-housing development (such as Carmel Place).

EXERCISE 1 Typologies: This analysis should address the spatial organization of the case study a stake, its constitutive formal features, and their historical evolution in relation to the development of NYC housing. Representational strategies should address these questions with a critical use of isometric or perspective drawings.

Individual Occupations: This approach to the exercise aims to deal with the ways in which the selected case study is appropriated by a user, and will document the different objects and technologies that mediate this process of occupation. A documentary photo journal will be used to address the relations between spaces, inhabitants, programs, and meanings.

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Workshop Exercises Students will develop two analyses of the selected case study and will rehearse one system of representation to address each of them. Each exercise offers two alternative topics for students to address. Each exercise will be started with a discussion of the topics and representation systems to be explored, followed by deskcrits and collective class discussions, and will end in a review pin-up. The two exercises will be compiled for the final review, adding a summary text (400 words) and a summary image. A selection of case studies will be offered in the first class, but students are invited to present their own options. These might include: An apartment building in Chinatown, a Barnard/Columbia dormitory building, a NYCHA public housing development, a squatted housing (such as C-squat), a homeless shelter, a co-housing project (such as Pure House), a recent high end development (such as 432 Park Avenue), and a recent micro-housing development (such as Carmel Place).

EXERCISE 1 Typologies: This analysis should address the spatial organization of the case study a stake, its constitutive formal features, and their historical evolution in relation to the development of NYC housing. Representational strategies should address these questions with a critical use of isometric or perspective drawings.

Individual Occupations: This approach to the exercise aims to deal with the ways in which the selected case study is appropriated by a user, and will document the different objects and technologies that mediate this process of occupation. A documentary photo journal will be used to address the relations between spaces, inhabitants, programs, and meanings.

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EXERCISE 2 Policies: This examination of the case study we will deal with the political and legal frameworks structuring the limitations and possibilities of the particular housing project being considered. Research should be made available though policy diagrams rendering those frameworks and their potentials visible.

Collective Practices: This study will consider the different systems of organization at play in the housing project under examination, addressing the way in which those enact or challenge the buildings social and political frameworks. These practices will be represented through the deployment of a narrative in the form of a graphic novel.

Each exercise should unfold in 3 11”x17” spreads. The first of them should be dedicated to the research process including, for example, a representation of historical information, an explanation of the different pieces of evidence mobilized, interview transcripts, or a description of the agents included in the narrative among others. Students will present 8 11”x17” spreads at the end of the semester, 3 for each exercise and 2 with the summary. Background information on NYC housing can be found in: - Alfred Mediolo, Housing Form and Public Policy in the United States - Richard Plunz, History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis

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HARASSING YOU TO MAKE YOU MOVE IS ILLEGAL! FIND OUT MORE ABOUT WHAT YOUR RIGHTS ARE HERE…

以騷擾的手段迫使你搬家是違法行為!請於此參考你所擁有的權力...

THERE’S NO HEAT AND IT’S WINTER! The law says this is an “immediately hazardous “condition. You should file an emergency lawsuit to get the heat turned on.

保護自己! PROTECT YOURSELF!

不要用現金來支付房租;請用支票或銀行匯票等形式支付。Don’t pay rent with cash; use a check or money order.

每次付房租時向房東拿據。Get a receipt from your landlord every time you pay the rent.

確保你的家屬配偶以及你住所裡的其他人都包含在你的租約內。Make sure the names of your spouse and others living in your apartment are included on the lease.

A tenant told me she won in court. She thought she would get evicted, but because she had called 311 and the landlord had so many violations on record, the landlord couldn’t evict them.

— Resident of 61 Delancey and member of CAAAV’s Chinatown Tenants Union

I have a friend whose landlord tried to pay him to move out. I told him that if he took the money, rent [for a new apartment] would use it all up…it’s really hard to find rent-stabilized housing… I told him not to take the money.

—Residents of 74 Forsyth and member of CAAAV’s Chinatown Tenants Union

說服住客一起合起來…其實很難的。我們叫他們［試試看］出來參加會議…如果人家看到有力量的話他們會團結起來的［而］我們團結起來才有力量的! — 61號地蘭西街和135號地威臣街住客,

住客協會會員

我有一個朋友問我房東準備給他買斷。我說,他如果拿那筆錢拿過來,錢都是用在房租上,而且很難找到租金管制 的房子的。我叫他不要收那筆錢。 —74號包厘街住客，住客協會會員

個住客告訴我他上法庭上贏了。本來他以為會被驅趕的，可是因為他那裡有打311而房東有多少違規的條例在311記錄下來，所以房東沒辦法趕 他們走。— 61號地蘭西街住客，

住客協會會員

如果房東不作維修我應該怎麼辦?

WHAT CAN I DO IF MY LANDLORD

WON’T MAKE REPAIRS?

如果我的房東想把我驅趕我該怎麼辦?

WHAT CAN I DO IF MY LANDLORD IS

TRYING TO KICK ME OUT?

寒冬裡沒有暖氣!法律上將此認定為“立即危害健康”的情況。你應當提起緊急訴 訟以確保供暖。

撥打311,讓市政府 派人來檢問題

待等線在請 ,一直到聽到中文 提示為止。在專人來看問題以前請不斷 撥打電話。你撥打電話的次數 越多他們越會重視。請不要擔 心他們會因此而生你的氣。

CALL 311 TO GET THE CITY TO INSPECT THE PROBLEM Stay on the phone until you receive instructions in Chinese.

Call many times, until they come see the problem. The more times you call, the more important the issue will be to them. Don’t worry; they won’t get mad at you!

如果通過以上方式不能解決問題 ,你可以通過房屋法庭來告房東以迫使他做出維修。IF THAT DOESN’T WORK, YOU CAN GO TO HOUSING COURT AND FILE A LAWSUIT AGAINST YOUR LANDLORD SO HE HAS TO MAKE REPAIRS.

與其單獨要求維修住房,不如聯同其他住戶一同提出要求。這樣往往更加行之有效。IT CAN BE MORE EFFECTIVE TO ASK FOR REPAIRS AS A GROUP, INSTEAD OF ON YOUR OWN.

其他樓宇的住客成功地 聚集過。Other groups of tenants have been successful in joining together.

社區組織可以協助你群 策群力來解決問題。There are organizations that can help you join together to get problems fixed.

社會組織或能幫你跟律 師取得建議或許幫助。They can help you to get access to lawyers.

把你的問題記錄下來寫信向你的房東反映問題 ,以掛號信寄出去而保存好收據。如果房間裡沒有暖氣 ,做一個表格來記錄房間內和樓宇外的溫度。

KEEP TRACK OF THE PROBLEM Write a letter about the problem to your landlord and send it by certified mail so you can prove when you sent it. Keep a copy for yourself.

If you don’t have heat, keep a list of the temperature in your apartment at different days and times.

將房間裡有問題的地方拍照。請用能顯示日期與時間的相機拍照。

Take photos of the problem. Use a camera that shows the date and time when the photos were taken.

你可以通過《唐人住客協會》之類的社區組織以取 得相關幫助。如果遇到冬天供暖、熱水 之類的緊急問題糾紛, 你可以提起緊急訴訟。

如需緊急訴訟,請到中央街111號的 “房屋法庭”找一位“HP 專員”辦理。你可以在法院要求翻譯服務。在遞交 訴訟的一周左右,你就能向法官陳述 問題。在見到法官之前,請堅持撥打 311求助電話。To do this, go to Housing Court at 111 Centre Street, and ask to see the HP clerk to file an “emergency HP action.”

You can ask for interpreters in court. You will present your problem to a judge in about a week. Keep calling 311 while you are waiting to see the judge.

撥打電話時請記下他們給你的編號 ,並在下次撥打電話時告知他們你的編號。打電話時請盡可能詳細描述問題。每次打電話都請盡量使用相同的辭彙。 Write down the reference number they give you when you call, and mention it when you call again.

Be as specific as possible when you describe the problem, and make sure to use the same words every time.

投訴的人越多,房東就越 須要對問題作出回覆。The more people who are complaining, the more the landlord will have to respond.

You should get a community organization, like CAAAV, to help you with this.

For URGENT PROBLEMS, like if you don’t have heat or hot water in the winter, you can file an emergency lawsuit.

JOIN OTHERS IN THE COMMUNITY WHO

ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO KEEP

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AFFORDABLE

與社區居民大家並肩保障我

們的社區繼續是負擔得起的單獨的住客有時在法 庭上也能贏 ,但是真正的成功案例都是來自集體行動。INDIVIDUAL TENANTS CAN SOMETIMES WIN IN COURT, BUT THE REAL SUCCESSES COME FROM ORGANIZING AND COLLECTIVE ACTION.

租金管制的住客曾經集體贏得重要保障,而使所有紐約居民都受益。RENT-STABILIZED TENANTS HAVE ORGANIZED TOGETHER TO WIN IMPORTANT PROTECTIONS THAT ALL NEW YORKERS BENEFIT FROM.

如果你遇到物業問題, 你的鄰居們大多也在面臨相同的問題。IF YOU’RE HAVING A PROBLEM, YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE PROBABLY EXPERIENCING THE SAME THING.

我的房東把我鎖 在外面了!這是違法行為!

如果你的房東想要驅趕你 , 他要通過房屋法庭要求法官 決定到底可不可以驅趕你。 驅逐的流程將延續數月。在此 期間你有權居住在你的柏門裡

MY LANDLORD LOCKED ME OUT!This is illegal!

If your landlord wants to evict you, you have to be given a notice of eviction. The eviction process can take months, and you can stay in your apartment during that time.

我的房東不允許我留宿訪客,並向他們索要證件。MY LANDLORD SAYS MY GUESTS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO STAY AND ASKS THEM FOR IDENTIFICATION.

我的房東以金錢許諾,想讓我搬走。請不要接受!搬入沒有租金管制的樓宇或許現在便宜,但就長久而言你的花費要更多!

MY LANDLORD IS OFFERING ME MONEY TO MOVE OUT OF THE BUILDING.

Don’t accept! Moving to housing that isn’t rent- stabilized may be cheaper now, but it will be more expensive in the long run!

法律上允許房東看證 件,但是禁止將之保存 或影印。Under the law, landlords can ask to see identification, but can’t keep it or make copies of it.

“重大資產改善”是什麼? › MCI是對建築進行大規模的改進（而不是維修）,從而使全 樓住客受益的行為。其中包括柏門外樓梯、走廊、大廳以及 公用地方的裝修改造。房東期望通過改造以上設施來收取 更高租金。 › 你收到關於MCI的通知函時，能在30天之內對其進行質疑 或者要求更多時間反應。 › 對能才候時的高過費花定認在有只客住 MCI進行質疑。 › 疑質行進費花備設及以貨供樓大就要想果如 ,你可以向房 東索要各項花費的明細清單。

WHAT’S AN MCI? › MCIs are large improvements (not repairs) to the building, meant to benefit all of the building’s tenants. They are things outside your apartment in the stairs, halls, and lobby. The landlord wants to spend more on these because it will allow him to charge more rent.

› You might receive a letter about MCIs and can challenge them within 30 days.

› Tenants can only challenge MCIs if they think the costs are too high.

› To challenge the cost of building supplies and equipment you can get a list from your landlord showing what each item costs.

我的房東正在通過裝修 樓宇的方式來漲房租。業主通常用“重大資產改善” 的方式來增長全樓的租金。 如果因此產生過多噪音與 粉塵將會被視為騷擾,你可以 此提起訴訟。

MY LANDLORD IS RENOVATING THE BUILDING TO RAISE THE RENTMajor Capital Improvements (MCIs) are often used by landlords to increase all of the rents in your building. If these cause a lot of noise and dust this can be considered harassment and you can file a lawsuit.

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EXERCISE 2 Policies: This examination of the case study we will deal with the political and legal frameworks structuring the limitations and possibilities of the particular housing project being considered. Research should be made available though policy diagrams rendering those frameworks and their potentials visible.

Collective Practices: This study will consider the different systems of organization at play in the housing project under examination, addressing the way in which those enact or challenge the buildings social and political frameworks. These practices will be represented through the deployment of a narrative in the form of a graphic novel.

Each exercise should unfold in 3 11”x17” spreads. The first of them should be dedicated to the research process including, for example, a representation of historical information, an explanation of the different pieces of evidence mobilized, interview transcripts, or a description of the agents included in the narrative among others. Students will present 8 11”x17” spreads at the end of the semester, 3 for each exercise and 2 with the summary. Background information on NYC housing can be found in: - Alfred Mediolo, Housing Form and Public Policy in the United States - Richard Plunz, History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis

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EXERCISE 2 Policies: This examination of the case study we will deal with the political and legal frameworks structuring the limitations and possibilities of the particular housing project being considered. Research should be made available though policy diagrams rendering those frameworks and their potentials visible.

Collective Practices: This study will consider the different systems of organization at play in the housing project under examination, addressing the way in which those enact or challenge the buildings social and political frameworks. These practices will be represented through the deployment of a narrative in the form of a graphic novel.

Each exercise should unfold in 3 11”x17” spreads. The first of them should be dedicated to the research process including, for example, a representation of historical information, an explanation of the different pieces of evidence mobilized, interview transcripts, or a description of the agents included in the narrative among others. Students will present 8 11”x17” spreads at the end of the semester, 3 for each exercise and 2 with the summary. Background information on NYC housing can be found in: - Alfred Mediolo, Housing Form and Public Policy in the United States - Richard Plunz, History of Housing in New York City: Dwelling Type and Social Change in the American Metropolis

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C. EVALUATION AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY Student’s final grade will consider both seminar participation and workshop exercises in the following percentages: Seminar: 30% Preparation of seminar discussion: 15%

To prepare the seminar sessions, students should bring to class either a written question responding to the readings, an image addressing the topics considered in the readings, or a news item related to the readings, for collective evaluation in the class.

Participation in seminar discussions: 15% Workshop: 70% Exercise 1: 25% Exercise 2: 25% Final Compilation (including revised exercises): 20% Attendance Attendance to all course meetings is mandatory. If you have a good reason for missing class, please inform the professor by email beforehand. Otherwise, every unexcused absence after the second one will lead to a reduction of the grade in fragments of one-third of a letter grade (A- to B+). More than four unexcused absences will lead to an automatic failure in the course. Academic Integrity Statement on academic integrity: “The intellectual venture in which we are all engaged requires of faculty and students alike the highest level of personal and academic integrity. As members of an academic community, each one of us bears the responsibility to participate in scholarly discourse and research in a manner characterized by intellectual honesty and scholarly integrity.” The full statement can be found at www.college.columbia.edu/academics/integrity/statement. We expect that students will work in accordance with their honor code. You can find them at www.barnard.edu/dos/honorcode and www.college.columbia.edu/honorcode Academic integrity violations in this class will be referred to the Dean’s Discipline process.

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D. SCHEDULE Wednesday 9/7 Introduction Monday 9/12 S1:SPACES. Defining an outside Wednesday 9/14 W1: Presentation and discussions of case studies. Monday 9/19 S2: SPACES. Facing the inside Wednesday 9/21 W2: EXERCISE 1. Class discussion Monday 9/26 S3: SPACES. Neighbor spaces Wednesday 9/28 W3: EXERCISE 1. Desckrits Monday 10/3 S4: SPACES 4. Technological domesticities Wednesday 9/28 W4: EXERCISE 1. Class discussion Monday 10/10 S5: SPACES 5. Object arrangements Wednesday 10/12 W5: EXERCISE 1. Deskcrit Monday 10/17 W7: EXERCISE 1. Pin-up Wednesday 10/19 S6: SPACES. Seminar activities Monday 10/24 S7: TERRITORIES. World Dwelling Wednesday 10/26 W8: EXERCISE 2. Class discussion Monday 10/31 S8: TERRITORIES. Planned Communities Wednesday 11/2 W9: EXERCISE 2. Deskcirts Monday 11/7 Election Day Wednesday 11/9 W10: EXERCISE 2. Class discussion Monday 11/14 S9: TERRITORIES. Infrastructures of Transience Wednesday 11/16 W11: EXERCISE 2. Deskcrit Monday 11/21 W11: EXERCISE 2. Pin-up Wednesday 11/23 S10: TERRITORIES. Seminar activities Monday 11/28 S11: TERRITORIES. Financial Landscapes Wednesday 11/30 W12: Compilation and Formatting Monday 12/5 S12: TERRITORIES. Homelessness and the Urban Commons Wednesday 12/7 W14: Compilation and Formatting Monday 12/12 Final Review * Students with Disabilities Students with disabilities who will be taking this course and may need disability-related accommodations are encouraged to register in advance with the Office of Disability Services (ODS) in 008 Milbank for Barnard students or Disability Services at Wien Hall, Main Floor — Suite 108A for Columbia students.