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Study programmes 2011-2012Last update : 14/06/2012
ARSL0312-2  Theory of architecture 2

Duration :  24h Th
Number of credits :  
Bachelor in architecture (St Luc), 3rd yearFirst semester2
Lecturer :  Georges Lantair
Language(s) of instruction :  
French language
Course contents :  
Theory, modernity and/or history. About the architectural object and the concept of minimalism: an attitude linking modernity with tradition (Donald Judd, Luis Barragan). The structure and the surface (Sol Lewitt). Territory and "marks" through the experience of Land art.
Learning outcomes of the course :  
To compare different modes of architectural production (speech and specific objects) and to understand the processes of "projectisation".
Prerequisites and co-requisites/ Recommended optional programme components :  
The history of architecture and art (simultaneously). Particularly of the 19th Century and the modernists of the 1930s.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning) :  
Lectures illustrated with slides and videos. Analysis of texts.
Recommended or required readings :  
BARRAGAN Luis, Barragan, l'espace et l'ombre, le mur et la couleur, par Danièle Pauly, Birkhäuser, 2002. BRANCUSI Constantin, La colonne sans fin, Edt. Du Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1998 DIDI-HUBERMAN Georges, Ce que nous voyons, ce qui nous regarde, Paris, Les Editions de Minuit, 1992. FRAMPTON Kenneth , L'architecture Moderne, Une histoire critique, réédition version française : Thames & Hudson, London, 1980. GIACOMETTI Alberto. - Alberto GIACOMETTI, écrits, présenté par Michel Leiris et Jacques Dupin, ////, éditions Hermann, 1990. GIACOMETTI Alberto. - Giacometti. La rue d'un seul, de Tahar Ben Jelloun, Paris, Ed. Gallimard, 2006. GOERITZ Mathias, Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), L'art comme prière plastique., Paris, L'Harmattan, 2002. GRIAULE Marcel, Dieu d'eau, entretiens avec Ogotemmêli, Paris, Ed. Fayard,1966 JUDD Donald, Architecture in Marfa, Texas,par Urs Peter Flûckiger, Basel, Birkhaüser, 2007 JUDD Donald, écrits 1963 - 1990, Paris, Daniel Lelong éditeur, 1991. JUDD Donald, Eichholteren, Stuttgart, Edit; Gert Hatje, 1994. TIBERGHIEN Gilles A., Land Art, Paris, Edition Carré, 1995.
Assessment methods and criteria :  
Discussion developed through writing or an oral interview.


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