Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
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
Even if they may deny it sometimes, architects don't seem to prevent themselves from entering into a constant dialogue with philosophy, probably because the latter is best defined, as Gilles Deleuze argues, by its ability "to form, invent and fabricate concepts". How then can architects - theoreticians but practitioners as well - refuse to engage their work in a privileged dialogue with these other forms of discourses in charge, just like them, of shaping the world to render it more habitable, more intelligible?
This seminar will focus on the question of a possible dialogue between architecture and philosophy, inventing students to an opened discussion on how such a dialogue can take place, but also how it can give place to new forms of research in architecture.
During this seminar we will explore concepts developed by the joint work of philosophers and architects. We will pay special attention to these particular moments of the recent history when architects decide to turn towards some forms of philosophical discourses (from the works of thinkers such as (Walter Benjamin, Henri Lefebvre, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Nancy, Peter Sloterdijk, and others), attracted by a spatiality always-already inscribed into their concepts (passages, living space, right to the city, dwelling, heterotopia, panoptic, figural art, the fold, rhizome, deconstruction, Khôra, construction site, crystal palaces, Human Park, among many others). Likewise, in order to better understand all these forms of possible encounters between architecture and philosophy, our concern will include the work of these "passeurs"; the work of some scholars attached to the idea of stating architecture as a host for philosophical practices.
The seminar aims to invest the question of "architecture and philosophy" through the study of different experiments - both practical and theoretical - that attempt to invent other modes of extra-disciplinarity and to engage the transformation of actual architectural practices into new sort of interactions with philosophical discourses.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
To allow students to support their arguments - to clarify their "philosophy" - when they are required to take part in the debate on architecture whether it is in relation to a house or a town.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The course will mainly be taught in the form of seminars.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
A reading list will be available.
Assessment methods and criteria
Written and/or oral exam and/or work.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Céline Bodart
Stéphane Dawans
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
cours du 1er quadri ne nécessitant pas d'adaptation