I will be teaching an architecture writing class in the spring @YaleArch. I will not be teaching anybody to shoot guns. But I can imagine how indelible this whole experience would have been. RIP to a great one https://t.co/sZu7YqwLXM
— Christopher Hawthorne (@ByCHawthorne) October 22, 2022
This reminds me of something I learned the first and only time I taught @sciarc. The course was about imagining a new kind of architecture guidebook for LA that might include future/speculative projects as well as existing/canonical ones
— Christopher Hawthorne (@ByCHawthorne) October 22, 2022
I had what I thought was the bright idea of dragging the students out from behind their screens and out of the building and into the city—to Skid Row, specifically, which is just a short walk from @sciarc but otherwise of course worlds away
— Christopher Hawthorne (@ByCHawthorne) October 22, 2022
I soon learned that I wasn’t the first to have had this idea. Mike Davis had taught there some years before. He didn’t just take the students to visit Skid Row. They *spent the night* there. Or so I was told.
— Christopher Hawthorne (@ByCHawthorne) October 22, 2022
Here's Davis's "The Case for Letting Malibu Burn"