¿[E]veryone has three lives: a public life, a private life and a secret life.¿ (Garcia Marquez, Gabriel quoted in Martin, Gerald. 2009. Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 435.)

Students will write an academic paper. This semester¿s task is to construct an argumentative academic essay concerning the academic relevance of private archival sources (letters, diaries, newspaper articles). Research questions will be detailed in collaboration with the advisors and will base on literature to be provided by the latter. The actual original archival sources will be collected by the students.
The second focus of the course is on methodologies and methods in architectural theory. 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)

07.10.2014, 12 pm, first unit, seminar room at architecture theory

Written academic paper.

Bibliography to be announced.