The class will make two field trips during the semester. First, a trip to Yale University to hear Kenneth Frampton speak will coincide with the New York City trip of the 4.123 Level 1 Studio. Then later in the semester, the class will make a trip to Brasilia to research it as a case study, documenting their trip. Visiting artists and architects will make presentations of their work, as well as offering background on the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the history of the project and the city of Boston. Visitors will include Hubert Murray, local architect and former planner for the Central Artery project, Kelly Dobson, local artist and former MIT Visual Arts student, and Wendy Jacob, Assistant Professor in the Visual Arts Department.
The final project will be developed over the course of the semester, and will focus on a discussion surrounding the issues relevant to the Rose Kennedy Greenway, and the spaces that will come into being once the Boston Central Artery Project is complete. These as-yet undefined spaces will no doubt be hotly contested and fought over. The final projects should seek to design new ways of looking at and thinking about these spaces.