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3.00 Credits
Staff The seminar examines architecture and urbanism in Muslim lands, emphasizing the 7th to the 16th centuries. Selected building types—the mosque, the palace, the tomb, and the garden—will be analyzed in detail in the context of regional traditions in, for example, Iran, Turkey, Spain, and India. The course also will investigate issues in the relationship between architecture and ornament, and between tradition and modernity.
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3.00 Credits
TBA An examination of the ideas behind the forms of American cities in the 21st century. Introductory lectures outline aspects of American city planning history. Students present two illustrated lectures to the class on a topic chosen with the instructor.
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3.00 Credits
I. Berman, E. Gamard. This course will trace and examine some of the most critical bodies of theory that have influenced the development of contemporary architectural thought and practice since the late 1960s. These ideas and theoretical systems emerging from disciplines external to architecture, form a larger interdisciplinary field, within which architecture is situated and against which its practices gain a certain coherence and cultural validity, while also providing external material for the inventive transformation of architectural knowledge and practices. Satisfies: [R, E]
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3.00 Credits
G. Owen. The course focuses upon selected works of three noted and influential contemporary practices—Koolhaas, Machado and Silvetti, Moneo, and in particular on the way that each understands the idea of the “real†as a guiding and originary idea in architecture. Significantly, each of the three practices operates cross-culturally, drawing attention to the frictions among ideas of regionalism and global culture, universal modernity and local tectonics. Equally significantly, 161 these practices are recognized for their theoretical writing as well as for their projects, enabling comparative analysis within the practice itself. Satisfies: [R, E]
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3.00 Credits
C. Reese. The relationship of theory and practice shapes architectural production. The course focuses on interfaces between theories of architecture proposed this century from within the profession by practitioners and those proposed from without by philosophers, artists, poets, filmmakers, and scientists, among others. One of the goals of the course will be to examine the interconnected roles that theory and practice play in establishing architecture as a critical cultural activity. Satisfies: [R, E]
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3.00 Credits
B. Goodwin. This seminar begins with a consideration of philosophy as a foundation for the development of an architectural theory. After a discussion of some basic concepts and terms we sketch a broad outline of the categories and organization of the discipline of philosophy. We then study the rationalist and empiricist positions in architectural theory, the emergence of Kantian critical philosophy, the shift in emphasis in 20th century philosophy from epistemology to ontology that is characteristic of Existentialism, and the late 20th century attack on traditional epistemology characteristic of poststructuralism. We then discuss the emergence of literary theory as a paradigmatic discipline in the last 30 years as well as the expansion of western philosophy to include aspects of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and eastern mystical traditions. With this foundation, the course focuses more specifically on theories of architecture and aesthetics and their relationships to various philosophical positions. Satisfies: [E]
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3.00 Credits
E. Gamard. This seminar studies issues associated with the Romantic spirit as they are experienced in contemporary art and architecture. Conditions such as the mystical underpinnings of romanticism, nature and the sublime, the intuitive, religion and the spirit, the definition of artist/architect, the longing for death, the meaning of feelings, utopias, paradise lost (and found) and the object of art are treated as fundamental aspects of modernity and the modern mind. Satisfies: [E]
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3.00 Credits
W. Brumfield. An introduction to the art and architecture of Russia from the 12th century to the present. The first part of the course deals with the medieval period (church architecture, icons, frescos); the second part begins with the assimilation of Western European styles during the 17th century and concludes with a survey of developments in the Soviet Union. Satisfies: [E]
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3.00 Credits
I. Berman. This seminar focuses on the relationship between sexual subjectivity and the construction of space. The outlining of potential intersections between contemporary feminist thought and architectural practice, this course critically examines the presumed sex/gender neutrality of architectural ideology and representation while simultaneously investigating formation of a critical, transformative and affirmative feminist space. (cross registered with Women Studies) Satisfies: [E]
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3.00 Credits
R. Gonzalez. What is public space? How is culture and ethnicity represented in the city? This seminar will explore ideas and forms of public space and public life in the city in their manifestations—civic, social, religious, formal and informal, official and unofficial, licit and illicit—primarily, but not exclusively in the United States and Latin America. The seminar also focuses on ephemeral architecture and events (i.e. world’s fairs, parades, protests, monuments and public art), which have been essential in constructing ideas about citizenship and community, and which have been employed to communicate the existence of culturally- and ethnically-based publics. The aim is to present a better understanding of the physical landscape of the public city, the particular ways that spaces foster inclusion and exclusion in urban public life, and, conversely, how various ideas of “the public†shape urban space. The readings for the course include historical and theoretical works on the idea of the public, and works of architecture, art and planning, and they are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, including architecture, urban studies, art, social history, anthropology, material culture studies, geography and cultural criticism. Satisfies: [E]
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