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Philippe Barriere

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Research Interests

- Expansion as spatial production (Suburbia as politico economical system).
- Infrastructure Architecture (Research on Interstate Highway implications and Architecture)
- Post-Urban City (Research of Mid size Mid America towns (Kansas City))
- Arch. as the Practice of the Self (Arch. as the space of intimacy and privacy)
- From "Interdiction" to Permissiveness", (Taboo and TRansgression in Arch.)
- The Other in Architectural History/Theory (A Recent Paradigm Shift From the Other to Otherness)
- Flesh in Architecture (Carnality Architectural).
- ParkUrbia: Suburbia as a Nat. Park (Sprawls and the Recovery of Landscape).
- Form and Function: The Old Dream of Symmetry. 
- Myth and Denials in Architecture's Origins (From Vitruvius, to Filarete's “Original Sin” and to Laugier's “Primitive Hut” ).

 
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Courses Taught

ARCH 359 Special Problems
ARCH 501 Architectural Design VIII

 
Education

Ph.D. Panthéon Sorbonne