Pathways, Process and Politics

Neuman, Jerry and Masha Hupalo

| “The Homeless Dilemma Seminar” | Course | Los Angeles, CA | Jan 2019

The housing affordability emergency in Los Angeles is an opportune moment to reimagine the city and propose radical housing alternatives. After understanding the problems of cost-burdened households and strategies to combat homelessness, building types local to Los Angeles (Accessory Dwelling Units, Bungalow Courts, and Dingbats) and a regulatory landscape of the city students design a housing policy mechanism that imagines a network of relationships with direct implications for urban forms. Not a building, not a typology, not a masterplan, but an immaterial infrastructure that maximizes the architectural potential of limits. Acknowledging the need for expanded disciplinary boundaries, this seminar examines embedded ideologies and unintended consequences of codes and standards worldwide and in Los Angeles.

The course consists of four main sections. The first section is introductory to the questions of homelessness and housing provision in Los Angeles. The following three sections are dedicated to imagining alternative worlds, coming up with a regulatory housing mechanism that can sustain it and considering possible hurdles and potential misuses of the invention. Each of the sections includes a lecture, a research lab with different experts and student presentations.

View the course summary and syllabus here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16-1pKearAflgSSc5P_1nhILU3kCMPepC/view?usp=sharing

Monday 7-10 PM
LA-8030
Instructors: Jerry Neuman, partner at DLA Piper, former Chair of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce Masha Hupalo, Research Associate at SCI-Arc
Open to students of all levels.