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
In this course, the following contents are approached based on writings of architects, texts on these writing
- The rationalist attitude and its origins
- Modernity in architecture
- Geometry, abstraction and "phenomenology" in the field of architectural theory
- The blind spot of the historiography of modern architecture: effects of the Second World War 1939-1945 on the built environment and on the discipline itself
- Postmodernism and its many meanings
- The blind spot of postmodernism: discrimination and segregation through the physical conception of the built environment
- Conceptual and iconoclastic practices of architecture: modular grids and mat-buildings, metabolism, etc.
- Architecture in the era of generalized aestheticization
- Relationships between architecture, globalization and capitalism
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
This course aims to explain the complexity of 20th century architectural theories
- Analyze the fundamental references of the disciplinary culture
- Identify the diversity and complexity of theoretical perspectives and the concepts that mobilize them
- Understand the relationship between architecture and the contexts of production and architectural design - theoretical, economic, political, social, cultural, institutional
- Develop critical thinking
- Understand that theoretical topics are linked to practice
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The history of architecture and art (simultaneously). Particularly of the 19th Century.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course are presented in the form of interactive lectures based on reading one or two texts per week. The texts are available online. The course requires the analysis of texts in preparation for the weekly course;
Topics are presented by the teacher and supported by visual presentations (slideshows, videos, etc.) and texts;
Courses are aoffered through face-to-face learning;
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Lectures illustrated with slides and videos.
Analysis of texts.
Recommended or required readings
Banham, R. (1981). Theory and Design in the First Machine Age (1960; Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
Banham, R. (1972). Los Angeles, the Architecture of Four Ecologies. Thomas S. Hines
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Castells, M. (1996). The rise of the network society. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
Cohen, J.-L. (2011). Architecture en uniforme: Projeter et construire pour la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Vanves: Hazan.
Colquhoun, Al. (2000). Modern Architecture (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2000).
Conrads, U. (, 1970). Programs and Manifestoes on 20thcentury Architecture (Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
Foster, H. (2001). Postmodern culture. London: Pluto Press.
Foster, H. (1985). Recodings: Art, spectacle, cultural politics. Port Townsend, Wash: Bay Press.
Frampton, K., & Rousso, R. (1985). Histoire critique de l'architecture moderne. Paris: Philippe Sers.
Hirst, P. (2005). Space and Power: Politics, War and Architecture. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Jameson, F. (2012). Le postmodernisme, ou, La logique culturelle du capitalisme tardif. Paris: Beaux-Arts de Paris
Jameson, F. (1983). Architecture et critique de l'idéologie ». in Gintz, C. (1983). Territoires 3. Paris: Éditions Territoires.
Jameson, F. (1988). "Periodizing the 60s", in The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Jencks, C. (1987). The language of post-modern architecture. London: Academy Editions
Joselit, D. (2012). After Art: The Object in Networks. Point: Essays on Architecture.¿
Koolhaas, R.(1995). S, M, L, XL. New York: Monacelli Press.
Krauss, R. (2007). L'originalité de l'avant-garde et autres mythes modernistes. Paris: Macula.
McLeod, M. (1983). Architecture or Revolution: Taylorism, Technocracy, and Social Change, Art Journal Vol. 43, No. 2.
Lefèbvre, H. (1981). The Production of Space. Wiley-Blackwell Print.
Madden, D. J. & Marcuse, P. (2016). In defense of housing: The politics of crisis. Verso Books,
Mumford, E. (2000). The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928-1960. Cambridge MA: The MIT Press.
Ockman, Joan ed. (1993). Architecture Culture 1943-1968: A Documentary Anthology. New York: Columbia Books on Architecture/Rizzoli.
Paquot, T-C. Younès. (2005). Géométrie, mesure du monde. Philosophie, architecture, urbain, Paris.
Portoghesi, P. (1982). After Modern Architecture Planning and cities. Rizzoli.
Rendell, J. (2007). Critical architecture. London: Routledge.
Sadler, S. (1998). The Situationist City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.¿
Sklair, L. (2001). The transnational capitalist class. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers.
Tafuri, M. (1976). Théories et histoire de l'architecture. Paris: Sadg.
Venturi, R., Scott, B. D., & Izenour, S. (2014). L'Enseignement de Las Vegas. Bruxelles: Mardaga.
Vidler, A. (ed.) (2008). Architecture Between Spectacle and Use. Sterling
Assessment methods and criteria
Written exam : MCQ+open-ended questions
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Eric.LeCoguiec@uliege.be