The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture
IT-1 | Introduction to Contemporary Architecture
Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 1C+1L | ECTS Credits: 2
Chair: History & Theory of Architecture
- Titular:
- prof.dr.arh. Ana Maria Zahariade
- Learning outcomes:
- The course is meant as a general introduction to the understanting of contemporary architecture. It should provide the students with a conceptual framework to be updated with other more specific knowledge aquired during their academic career. It should also help students integrate more general information about architecture, either disseminated through architectural magazines or through the everyday spatial experience. The contemporary project is thus understood as the converging point of the different subjects introduced in the University. Another objective is to help students get familiar with architectural writing and critique, as well as with reccurent themes and arguments within actual architectural debates.
- Content:
- Lectures:
• Art/Architecture/Urbanism/Architect/Architectural Theory;
• The relation of contemporary architecture to history;
• “Seasons of architecture”, from vernacular architecture to modern age;
• Mutations operated by Modern Movement in parallel to artistic avant-garde movements;
• Mutations operated by Modern Movement in urban conception; the critical moment of MM: Postmodernism;
• From Postmodernism to Super-modernism: trends of formal language; a critical view in contemporary architecture in parallel to artistic movements;
• Partial conclusions: Super-modernism and the city: Critical introduction into contemporary themes.
Practical work:
• Presentation seminar structure/pass criteria/introduction:
• Urban space:
• Possible definitions of the urban space/city; definitions of the components of the urban spce; Definition of historic relation between architecture-city [a current problem]; Illustrations of the components of the urban space and possibilities of its analysis/understanding; Illustrations of contemporary urban problems: urban spaces/historic and contemporary urban operations; Graphic means, representation methods in urbanism;
• exercise #1;
• Architectural object /new-old in city:
Representations of the architectural object. Analysis of an architectural object. Understanding of an architectural object. Development of specific professional language. In-depth understanding of a building + its relation to the context. In search of answers to analyzed object and in drawings and texts. Analysis-exemple of a modern/contemporary building
• Exercise #2;
• Architectural text;
• Exercise #3;
• Discussion/advisory hours/revision for the exam; - Teaching Method:
- lectures, seminars, practical work, commented visits.
- Assessment:
- 50% practical work and seminars
50% final exam - Bibliography:
- BARAL y ALTET, Xavier - Istoria artei, Ed. Meridiane, Bucureşti, 2002;
LASCU, Nicolae - Funcţiune şi Formă (studiul introductiv);
ZAHARIADE, A.M. - Breviar de curs;
ZEVI, B. - Venti monumenti + Venti complessi edili italiani. - Notes:
- In Sibiu, the course will focus on the critique (in the sense of analysis) of several architectural monuments that stand as landmarks for the becoming of contemporary architecture, insisting on the changes brought by modernity.
Suplemmentary bibliography:
Summerson, John, The Classical Language of Architecture, Thames and Hudson, 1963 (reed.1992)
Frampton, Kenneth, Modern Architecture: a Critical History, Thames and Hudson, 1980(reed.2004)
Richard Copans, Stan Neuman, Architectures, (video)
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