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Online Course C460 ·
Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
Museums, Architecture, City
Renewal:
the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum
Instructor: Joseba
Zulaika, Ph. D.
Phone: (775) 784-4854, e-mail: zulaika@unr.edu
Course Description
The spectacular Guggenheim Museum, designed by Los
Angeles architect Frank Gehry, has put Bilbao on the map.
The study of Bilbao’s fin de millenium provides
an example of the interdependencies between museum culture,
the international art market, spectacular architecture,
tourism, the politics of local identities, urban
regeneration discourse, the media, late capitalist
strategies, and the promotional selling of national images
in a postmodern world.
The approach of this course will be
multidisciplinary: cultural studies, anthropology, urbanism
and architecture, museum, and popular culture. These areas
will all be brought to bear for contextualizing the
creation, decline, and regeneration of cities. The student
must read the literature perceptively, get an understanding
of the relevant issues, and develop a perspective from where
to view and judge the contemporary cultural and political
transformations. We will also look comparatively at other
American and European cities with similar problems of urban
regeneration.
Course Goals
What strategies should cities mobilize to regain economic
prosperity after the demise of their old industrial bases?
What is the role of arts, architecture, museums, and
cultural industries in regenerating urban centers? What are
the defining features of the new “global
postmodern” space in which cities have to compete? What
is meant by neologisms such as the
“disneyfication,” the “mcdonaldization,”
and the “las vegasing” of society? These are some
of the questions we will be grappling with during this
course.
Study Guidelines
This course has twenty-eight lessons. Each lesson
requires about fifty pages of independent reading, plus
lecture notes.
You are expected to read the materials in order to be
able to summarize, comment, present objections, draw
inferences, as well as compare and contrast with other
relevant literature covered by the course. Please contact
the instructor if you are having problems with the readings
or with any other aspect of the course.
Course Requirements
Each lesson requires an essay question of two to three
pages. The essay should creatively engage with the facts and
ideas presented in the written materials and should not
consist of merely repeating the information offered by the
instructor and the readings.
A Mid-course Exam and a Final Exam are
required.
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Each essay (28 lessons)
Mid-course Exam
Final Exam
Total points possible
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25 points
150 points
150 points
1000 points
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Grade Scale
97 -100% = A+
93 - 96% = A
90 - 92% = A-
87 - 89% = B+
83 - 86% = B
80 - 82% = B-
77 - 79% = C+
73 - 76% = C
70 - 72% = C-
60 - 69% = D
0 - 59% = F
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