ARCH402 Contemporary Architectural Theory

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Course Code Course Title Weekly Hours* ECTS Weekly Class Schedule
T P
ARCH402 Contemporary Architectural Theory 1 1 4
Prerequisite None It is a prerequisite to

None

Lecturer Mejrema Zatrić-Šahović Office Hours / Room / Phone
Tuesday:
15:00-16:00
Wednesday:
15:00-16:00
Thursday:
12:00-15:00
E-mail mzatric-sahovic@ius.edu.ba
Assistant Assistant E-mail
Course Objectives The Course presents foundational debates of architectural modernism, as well as post-modernist reactions and the continuation of these debates into contemporary architecture. It interprets their intersections with the history of philosophy, history of technology and cultural studies. Stresses the relationship between theory of architecture and exemplary architectural and urbanistic works from the 1920s to the present.
Textbook K. Michael Hays (ed), Architecture Theory since 1968, The MIT Press, 2000; Kate Nesbitt (ed), Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, An Anthology of Architectural Theory 1965-1995 , Priceton Architectural Press, 1997.
Additional Literature
  • Additional literature will be provided throughout the course as required.
Learning Outcomes After successful  completion of the course, the student will be able to:
  1. Differentiate between the key contemporary architectural theories and how they might be applied to architectural practice
  2. Critique the application of architectural theory in the works of practicing architects
  3. Chart the development of architectural theories and theoretical thinking
Teaching Methods Teach will comprise of lectures, and class discussions. Set readings will form a key component of the teaching practice
Teaching Method Delivery Face-to-face Teaching Method Delivery Notes
WEEK TOPIC REFERENCE
Week 1 Introduction: What is architectural Theory?
Week 2 The Project of Modernity Reyner Banham, "Introduction," in Theory and Design in the First Machine Age, 1960
Week 3 Postmodernism – Architectural responses to the crisis within modernism Jurgen Habermas, "Modern and Postmodern Architecture," 1981
Week 4 Postmodern Architectural Themes Michael Graves, "A Case for Figurative Architecture," 1982
Week 5 Postmodern Urban Theory Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, "A significance for A&P parking lots or Learning from las Vegas," 1968
Week 6 Historicism Alan Colquhoun, "Three Kinds of Historicism," 1983
Week 7 Regionalism Kenneth Frampton, "Prospects for a Critical Regionalism," 1983
Week 8 Mid Term Exam
Week 9 Late Capitalism and Consumerism Frederic Jameson, “Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism,” 1984
Week 10 Autonomy Robert Somol and Sarah Whiting, " Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism," 2002
Week 11 Authorship Roland Barthes, "The death of the author," 1977
Week 12 Media Robin Evans, "Figures, doors and passages," 1978
Week 13 Control Michel Foucault, "Panopticism," 1975
Week 14 New Materialism, Extractivism, Geography Mark Jarzombek, "The Quadrivium Industrial Complex," 2019 and "A House Deconstructed, an uncertainty manifesto," 2021
Week 15 Recap
Assessment Methods and Criteria Evaluation Tool Quantity Weight Alignment with LOs
Final Exam 1 30 1,2,3
Semester Evaluation Components
In-term Exam 1 20 1,2,3
In-class Exercises 14 30 1,2,3
Assignment 2 20 1,2,3
***     ECTS Credit Calculation     ***
 Activity Hours Weeks Student Workload Hours Activity Hours Weeks Student Workload Hours
Lecture Hours 1 14 14 In-class Exercises 1 14 14
Home Study 2 15 30 In-term exam study 10 1 10
Final Exam Study 8 2 16 Assignment 2 8 16
        Total Workload Hours = 100
*T= Teaching, P= Practice ECTS Credit = 4
Course Academic Quality Assurance: Semester Student Survey Last Update Date: 18/10/2024

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