The course will be based on:
o Symposia: lectures followed by discussions.
o Individual research work: the thought and output of one architect, chosen by the student. This work will be mostly conducted in libraries and the internet. This work will be individually supervised.
o Presentations of the work in progress open to discussion by the members of the course.
The assessment will be based on:
Attendance and participation in course lectures (40%)
Participation in the work in progress sessions and delivery of the final essay (60%).
Bibliography:
Theory:
Forty, Adrian, Words and Buildings: A vocabulary of Modern Architecture, N.Y.: Thames and Hudson, 2000.
Architectural Theory, from the Renaissance to the Present, London: Taschen, 2003.
Mallgrave, Harry Francis, Architectural Theory: An Anthology from 1871 to 2005 (vol.2), London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2008
Craig, C., Cairns, S., Heynen, H. (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, London: SAGE, 2012.
Smith, K. (ed), Introducing Architectural Theory, N.Y.: Routledge, 2012.
Mallgrave, Harry Francis, David J. Goodman, An Introduction to Architectural Theory: 1968 to the Present, London: Wiley, 2011.
Borgmann, Albert. The destitution of space: from cosmic order to cyber disorientation,Harvard design magazine, 2000 Winter-Spring, p.12-17
Cases:
Pollard, Joshua, The Materialization of Religious Structures in the Time of Stonehenge, Material Religion: The Journal of Objects, Art and Belief, Volume 5, Number 3, November 2009, pp. 332-353.
Hendrix, John, Architecture as Cosmology: Lincoln Cathedral and English Gothic Architecture, N.Y.: Peter Lang, 2011.
Hart, Vaughan. Erich Mendelsohn and the fourth dimension, Arq: architectural research quarterly, 1995 Winter, v.1, n.2, p.50-59.
Writing:
Borden, Iain, Katerina Rüedi Ray, The Dissertation: A Guide for Architecture Students, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008.
Turabian, Kate L. , A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Chicago: U of Chicago Press, The seventh edition, published in 2007.
Wiseman, Carter , Writing Architecture: A Practical Guide to Clear Communication About the Built Environment, San Antonio, Texas: Trinity Univ. Press, 2014.