The lecture courses Architecture Theory 1 + 2 are concerned with architecture with respect to anthropological, social, cultural, political, economical, technical, mathematical, theories of science, technology, and communications, as well as aesthetic, religious (both history and practice), and gender related discourses and disciplines.
VO Architecture Theory 1 guides the students through a broad historical spectrum (with respect to developments in science, culture, and architecture). It introduces conceptual and mathematical instruments at work in architecture theory, and it learns to distinguish a variety of 'theoretical gestures' in how these abstract instruments have been and are being 'played' by architects.
VO Architecture Theory 2 builds upon the first lecture course, and attends mainly to more recent and contemporary architecture and architecture theory.
Program
11 October 2019: Einführung. Was sind architektonische Modelle, abstrakte Instrumente und theoretische Gesten? Text: Jacques Le Goff, Geschichte ohne Epochen (Philipp von Zabern Verlag, 2014) (Auszüge).
18 October 2019: Robert Doran, The Theory of the Sublime (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015), Chapter 2, "Longinus five sources of sublimity".
25 October 2019: Kengo Kuma, The Anti-Object (Auszüge, ch1 "making a connection" and ch2, "flowing out")
1. November 2019. ** KEINE VORLESUNG: FEIERTAG (ALLERHEILIGEN)
8. November 2019: Gilles Clément, "Planetary Gardens" (2015)
15. November 2019 ** KEINE VORLESUNG – ATTP SOPHISTICATION CONFERENCE
22. November 2019: Massimo Cacciari, “Project”, in The Unpolitical: On the Radical Critique of Political Reason (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009), 122-145.
29 November 2019: Pier Vittorio Aureli, “Toward the Archipelago”, in The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011)
6 December 2019: Valerio Olgiati, Markus Breitschmid, Nicht-Referenzielle Architektur, (2018), S. 13-50.
13 December 2019: Rem Koolhaas, “Bigness,” in S, M, L, XL (1995) & J.L. Hersey, Pythagorean Palaces (1976), S. 19-27.
20. December 2019 ** KEINE VORLESUNG – CHRISTMAS BREAK