{"id":29,"date":"2012-08-27T21:21:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T01:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/arc337637f12\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2013-08-30T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:05:31","slug":"activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/arc337637f12\/activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tClass meetings are a venue for workshops and other activities that help students complete the two major course projects: an analysis of industrial and agricultural modernization through mills and plantations, and the creation of a historical atlas of architecture in upstate New York. Class sessions also accommodate lectures and discussion of readings. The lectures and readings threaded through the semester address key buildings, figures, and styles along with major theoretical and historical analytics.They provide a historical and theoretical framework to guide and contextualize the case study projects.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTopics:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tNative American and colonial architectures\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tPlantations and agricultural modernization\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tMills and industrial modernization\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tEarly republican urbanization\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tDiscipline and biopolitics in institutional building types\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tUtopianism and intentional communities\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tNew technologies and building processes\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tSocial reform through domestic design\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tHigh styles and vernaculars\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tSuburbanization\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tWalking tours of downtown Syracuse and visits to nearby sites allow us to engage directly with representative examples of major types as well as distinctive landmarks of early 19th century architecture. Site visits include:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tHanford Mill Museum, a working water-powered mill and industrial complex\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tLorenzo, a Federalist planter&#39;s house and grounds\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tErie Canal Museum, the sole remaining weighlock from the U.S. canal system\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tUnderground Railroad and fugitive slave rescue sites in downtown Syracuse\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tAuburn Correctional Center, one of two key prototypes for 19th-century prison design\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tHouses of Harriet Tubman and Secretary of State John Seward\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tOneida Community Mansion House, home to the nation&#39;s largest and longest-running 19th-century utopian community\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tThe two primary assignments are research projects focusing on sites and topics of student choosing. The first project is a four-week analysis of a person, building, site, event, or topic relating to the two major architectural systems of production in the early 19th century United States: <a href=\"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/arc337637f12\/research\/\">MILLS and PLANTATIONS<\/a>. The second project is an eight-week investigation into a person, building, site, event, or topic along the Erie Canal, the transporation armature that profoundly shaped the development, urbanism, and architecture of Upstate New York. These research projects are gathered in the <a href=\"https:\/\/jmassey.expressions.syr.edu\/arc337637f12\/historical-atlas\/\">HISTORICAL ATLAS<\/a> presented on this site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Class meetings are a venue for workshops and other activities that help students complete the two major course projects: an analysis of industrial and agricultural modernization through mills and plantations, and the creation of a historical atlas of architecture in upstate New York. Class sessions also accommodate lectures and discussion of readings. 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