Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
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
- Postmodernism as discourse and metadiscourse
- The blind spot of postmodernism: discrimination and segregation through the physical design of the built environment
- Architecture in the age of generalized aestheticism Relationship between architecture, globalization and capitalism
- Architecture as a vector of wording
- Conceptual and iconoclastic practices of architecture
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of this course, the student will be able to :
Explain the limits of architecture itself, of the myth of the autonomous architect, through accounts of architectural activity that can be described empirically.
Question the dominant historiography.
Uderstand the relationships between architecture and the contexts of architectural production and design: theoretical, economic, political, social, cultural, institutional.
To develop a critical spirit.
To explain that theoretical reflection is 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, hybrid learning)
online teachning
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.
Lavin, S. (2020). Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Effects. Spector Books
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
June session :
- In-person
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
- Remote
written exam ( multiple-choice questionnaire, open-ended questions )
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
August-september session :
- In-person
oral exam
- Remote
oral exam
- If evaluation in "hybrid"
preferred remote
Additional information:
Written exam : MCQ+open-ended questions
second session: online oral exam
Work placement(s)
Organisational remarks and main changes to the course
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Contacts
Eric Le Coguiec, Professeur
Eric.LeCoguiec@uliege.be