ARCH402 Contemporary Architectural Theory

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:
	Differentiate between the key contemporary architectural theories and how they might be applied to architectural practice Critique the application of architectural theory in the works of practicing architects 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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