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| ARLL0207-1 | Sociology and urban sociology
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Stéphane Dawans |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | This course deals with modern and post-modern architecture, linking architectural trends to the social and economic conditions which generated them. In fact, to understand architectural production of the 20th and the start of the 21st centuries, we should not avoid considering the origins of modern work to carry out what one of the masters of suspicion called "genealogy". This will allow us to see how and when utopian thought was developed, without which it would not be possible to seriously consider rationalism and functionalism which form the basis of modern architecture and progressive town planning (CIAM). Similarly, we will examine the historical and sociological conditions which led to the crisis of modern architecture, post-modern anthropology and "inevitable architectural eclecticism". |
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| Course objective : | By the end of the course, students should be able, for example, to respond to questions relating to:
- The philosophical and political background to modern and post-modern architects.
- The sociological conditions which led to modernity and post modernity
- The functions and limits of utopian thought.
- The contributions made by various contemporary philosophers (Deleuze, Foucault, Derrida, Habermas, Eco ...) or theorists (Venturi, Jencks, Koolhaas, Kroll, Tschumi, ...) relating to a specific problem related to architecture or town planning,
- Understanding of concepts which built modern and post-modern architectural culture (critical regionalism, rhetorical postmodernism, deconstruction, ...),
- The interpretation to be given to various examples of architecture (Bilbao Museum, Parc de la Vilette ...), various extracts from texts (extracts from articles on sociology or philosophy, architectural or town planning manifestos ...)...
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| Prerequisites : | Lectures - which will include time for questions and answer sessions. |
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| Organization : | Lectures - which will include time for questions and answer sessions. |
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| Written notes : | A portfolio of reading will by given during the term. It will include notably texts by Walter Benjamin and Jurgen Habermas as well as extracts from major theoretical texts in architecture often cited in anthologies, such as: K. Michael Hays, Architecture Theory Since 1968, MIT Press, 1998 & N. Leach, Rethinking Architecture: a reader in cultural Theory, London, Routledge, 1997; Jencks C., Theories and manifestos of contemporary architecture, Academy Editions, 1997... |
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| Assessment : | Written exam. |
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