Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Bachelor in architecture | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
Although architecture cannot be reduced simply to its artistic dimension, no-one seriously doubts that it rightfully belongs among the Fine Arts. Future architects should therefore have an introduction to the fundamental issues in aesthetic philosophy: What are the issues around the question of beauty? How has the question changed in 2,500 years? What is art? What are the particularities of architecture as an artistic practice? Why is art in crisis today?; etc. To respond to these objectives, students need to acquire a range of historical, thematic and conceptual reference points. In 24 hours, we will address the philosophers and concepts that have built the history of western tradition, from Plato to Goodman. We will study some of the most fundamental texts from Antiquity to the current day, which contribute to the debate and will address the main concepts which should enable architecture students to position themselves in relation to the major issues of art in general and architecture in particular.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course, students should be able to answer questions relating to:
- the characteristics of major paradigms in aesthetic philosophy (classical, critical, romantic, etc.)
- the contribution of particular philosophers (Plato, Hume, Kant, Nietzsche, Goodman, etc.) in relation to an issue addressed in class,
- major concepts (the pleasant, the beautiful, the sublime, etc.),
- the specificity of architecture as art.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course will essentially be delivered in lecture form (with the help of PowerPoint, extracts from documentaries, etc.).
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
Notes reproducing the course structure (+bibliography) and a portfolio of reading will be made available. The basic reference text is: Sherringham M., Introduction à la philosophie esthétique, Payot, 1992.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written and/or oral exam
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
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Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
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two important texts
The text of Nathalie Heinich will allow you not to confuse the strategies of classical, modern and contemporary art as it is exposed today in museums or on public space.
The text of Jean-Louis Genard will make you aware of this inflation of the aesthetics which, since the 1960s according to the sociologist Daniel Bell, impacts the lives of everyone and the world of architecture ...