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ARCH6714-1 / Spring 2023

Jorge Otero-Pailos

Experimental Preservation

Canvas

Bulletin

This hands-on seminar will explore recent experimental preservation practices and how they are pushing conventional definitions of preservation, architecture and art. In particular the class will focus on smell projects, and how they influence our perceptions of space, memory, and experiences of attraction and repulsion towards buildings. We will study the potential of smell to be used as an architectural material.

In recent years smell has become a new and expanding area of research and practice across the creative fields. Architects are designing smells for their buildings, retailers and hoteliers are commissioning perfumers to develop signature smells for their buildings, artists are creating smell installations and preservationists are reconstructing smells of historic buildings. The course will take stock of these contemporary developments and equip students with the tools to analyze and design architectural smells.

By focusing on smell, the course seeks to fill an important gap in the education of professionals working on the built environment, which has so far focused principally on the analysis of form, space, color and light. The course will consider smell as a building material, which can today be designed and manufactured. The introduction of every new building material has caused the development of new architectural systems—quarried stone revolutionized masonry construction systems millennia ago, and 19th century engineered steel led to the development of metallic construction, skyscrapers. What new architectural systems of design, and indeed of thought, could smell materials make possible?

Location & Time

200 BUELL

TH 11 AM - 1 PM

Session & Points

FULL SEMESTER

3 Points

Sequence

HP Required

Call Number

11512

Programs

M.S. Historic Preservation

M.S. Real Estate Development

Master of Architecture

New York / Paris

M.S. Advanced Architectural Design

Ph.D. in Historic Preservation

M.S. Urban Planning

M.S. Architecture and Urban Design

M.S. Computational Design Practices

Other Semesters & Sections

Course	Semester	Title	Instructor	Syllabus	Requirements & Sequence	Location & Time	Session & Points	Call No.
ARCH6714‑1	Spring 2026	Experimental Preservation	Jorge Otero-Pailos		HP Required	412 Avery W 11 AM - 1 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	14167
A6714‑1	Spring 2019	Experimental Preservation	Jorge Otero-Pailos, Andreas Keller		HP Elective Building Science & Technology Elective	CONSERVATION LAB - 655 SCHERMERHORN M 2 PM - 4 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	90797
A6714‑1	Spring 2017	Experimental Preservation	Jorge Otero-Pailos, Andreas Keller	Syllabus	Elective HP Elective Building Science & Technology Elective	300 Avery Hall W 11 AM - 1 PM	Full Semester 3 Points	86946
A6714‑1	Spring 2016	EXPERIMENTAL PRESERVATION	Jorge Otero-Pailos		ELECTIVE HP Elective Building Science & Technology Elective	323M FAYERWEATHER W 1 PM - 3 PM	FULL SEMESTER 3 Points	28046