welcome.

welcome to our online classroom.

This course is an online seminar and is structured to offer a critical and academic investigation of many sub-themes of “suburbanism”. As you are all aware, suburbia is vast and sprawling, so the topics and themes of the semester are as well. You will be given the opportunity to create focused and specific theories from many influences, publications, and projects. More importantly, the course will challenge you to ask critical questions about suburban material culture, the role of design, its spatial and structural qualities, how design effects the social make-up of the everyday, and perhaps speculate its future.

Throughout the course, we will look at multiple scales of suburbia from the XL [neighborhoods] to the S [single family house]. The course will look into the history of residential and suburban design initiatives and systems and reveal how the role of architect and designer is played in the housing market. The ultimate objective of the course is to broaden your knowledge and sharpen your perspectives about the often negatively viewed, or critically neglected suburbs.