Until now I have always worked for my wives and tried to make them big and known, to actresses, dancers. To what end? To what end? Maybe they would have been happier to stay with me and darn socks. (Adolf Loos according to Claire Loos, 1936, Wien: Verlag der Johannes-Presse, S. 16, own translation)
Students will write a scientific paper. This semester’s task is to construct an argumentative academic essay concerning Loos’ understanding of the female gender and how it reflects and influences his architectural projects and writings. Research questions will be detailed in collaboration with the advisors and will base on literature to be provided by the latter and/or original documents and drawings from the Loos archive at Albertina Museum and from the national library.The second focus of the course is on methodologies and methods of architectural academic research. Students will further be introduced to principles of argumentation and of scientific research and writing (research, citations, structure of an academic paper, academic databases, software for managing bibliographies, etc.).
The course is bilingual (German/English) and subdivided into three main parts. The units will be detailed further at the beginning of the semester.
a) Supervised research and formulation of a research question (5 units)b) Independent research and writing of an academic abstract (2 units)c) Oral presentation of the state of the art, construction of the argument and writing of the final paper (4-5 units)
18.10.2013 9 am - first unit, seminar romm at architecture theory
Written academic paper. Due between January 31 and February 17, 2014
The student must have at least 7 of the course(s) completed listed below:
Bibliography to be announced.
