Fișa disciplinei:

IOSUD-SDA SDA-2 Perspective teoretice contemporane.pdf

Course Leader:

prof.dr.arh. Augustin Ioan

Learning outcomes:

Developing skills of autonomous research in architecture and planning. Analising data and interpreting them. Critical thinking and developing the abilities of curating information. Developing the skill of producing new knowledge by research.

Content:

The course introduces doctoral students to general perspectives on the world and knowledge, then to research methods, and presents, derived from these, research methods specific to the fields of architecture and urban planning. In the process, doctoral students learn to use them, understanding their potential and limitations, to identify the concepts inherent to each and how they function a) as interpreters of existing architecture/urban spaces; b) as generators of architecture/urbanism with a contemporary and innovative character. Phenomenology (Heidegger, Bachelard) – interpretations by C. Norberg-Schulz and K. Frampton – theories produced by them and others (contextualism, critical regionalism, Genius Loci), contemporary critiques of these (Neil Leach in Camouflage and Forget Heidegger!).
Hermeneutics, interpretation (Heidegger, Gadamer) and contemporary critiques (interpretative delirium and conspiracy/fake news theory). Semiotics (Eco, R. Venturi): architecture as language, communication through architecture, limits and potential of meaning in architecture. Aesthetics: architecture in the system of arts, beauty, sublime/ sacred (Bigness in R. Koolhas), heroic/memorial architecture, critique of the concept of style, visual culture, origins of arts/architecture, value. Post-structuralism: M. Foucault, G. Deleuze (panopticon, heterotopology, rhizomatic space (junk space in Koolhas), the fold, smooth/striated, nomadism, etc.). Postmodernism (C. Jencks, F. Lyotard, J. Baudrillard), architecture and related concepts, the last style, pop culture vs. high culture, tradition, triviality, simulacrum, (self-)irony. Deconstruction/ism (J. Derrida with B. Tschumi and P. Eisenman, M. Wigley). The complexity paradigm (bottom-up design methods, parametricism, non-standard geometries).

Teaching Method:

We read and interpret together the prime texts of each research method in general, then as applied in interpreting built or written architecture.

Assessment:

The PhD students have two tasks: a) a short presentation max 500 words of one of the texts discussed in class as pertaining to the research method selected by them. b) They have to explain, in a max 2000 words paper, the selected research method(s), arguing why is the respective method the best for interogating their topic, what are the concepts involved and with what expected result(s).

Bibliography:

ACTAR Metapolis, The Dictionary of Advanced Architecture
Bachelard Poetics of space
Baudrillard The system of objects,
(cu J.Nouvel) Singular Objects - Architecture and Philosophy

Derrida (with Eisenman) Chora L Works,
(with Anne Dufourmantelle) On Hospitality
Hale, J. Building Ideas
Heidegger: The Origin of the Work of Art
Jencks Modern Movements in Architecture, The Arch. Of the Jumping Universe
Leach Anestetica/Arh ca anestezic, Forget Heidegger! și Camuflaj
Lyotard Postmodernismul pe înțelesul copiilor