Readings

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1 Course introduction Buy at Amazon "The Vision." In The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Translated by Henry Watson Fowler and F. G. Fowler. Charleston, SC: BiblioBazaar, 2009, pp. 1-7. ISBN: 9781103536498.
2 Modernity

Buy at Amazon Plato. "Book VII, 514a-518d: The Cave." In The Republic. Translated by Desmond Lee. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2007. ISBN: 9780140455113.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Book X." In The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691097183.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Book VI." In The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691097183.

3 Metaphysics and anti-metaphysics

Buy at MIT Press Buy at Amazon Tschumi, Bernard. "Architecture and Limits," "Violence of Architecture," and "Disjunctions." In Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, pp. 101-140, 207-204. ISBN: 9780262700603.

Buy at Amazon Nietzsche, Friedrich. Sections 108, 109, 115-117, 124-126. In The Gay Science. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York, NY: Vintage, 1974. ISBN: 9780394719856.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Preface," and "First Treatise: 'Good and Evil,' 'Good and Bad'." In On the Genealogy of Morality. Translated by Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 1998, pp. 1-33. ISBN: 9780872202832.

4 Debate 1  
5 Social contract

Rousseau, Jean. The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right.

Buy at Amazon Latrobe, Benjamin. "Letter to Robert Mills." In The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Volume 2, 1805-1810. Edited by John Van Horne. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 239-244.

Buy at Amazon Locke, John. "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." Chapter 2 in The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration. New York, NY: Dover, 2002. ISBN: 9780486424644.

Buy at Amazon Kant, Immanuel. "Analytic of the Sublime." In Critique of Judgement. Book II, sections 40-54. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780192806178.

6 Defining the architect

Tafuri, Manfredo, and Luisa Passerini. "History as Project: An Interview with Manfredo Tafuri." ANY no. 25/26 (2000): extracts from pp. 28-31.

Buy at Amazon Vitruvius. On Architecture. Book 1. Translated by Frank Granger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931. ISBN: 9780674992771.

Gropius, Walter. Scope of Total Architecture. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1955, excerpts. (Twelve points, beginning with "I sum up my conclusions for a transitional approach in architectural education")

7 Avant-garde

Buy at Amazon Greenberg, Clement. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." In Perceptions and Judgements, 1939-1944 (The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1). Edited by John O'Brian. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 5-22. ISBN: 9780226306179.

Buy at Amazon Stirner, Max. The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority. New York, NY: Dover, 2005, excerpts. ISBN: 9780486445816.

8 Debate 2  
9 Psychology

Buy at Amazon Vischer, Robert. "On the Optical Sense of Form: A Contribution to Aesthetics." In Empathy, Form, and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art, 1994, pp. 92-98. ISBN: 9780892362592.

Buy at Amazon Arnheim, Rudolf. The Dynamics of Architectural Form. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009, pp. 258-259 and 262-274. ISBN: 9780520261259.

Buy at Amazon Greenberg, Clement. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." In Perceptions and Judgements, 1939-1944 (The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1). Edited by John O'Brian. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 5-22. ISBN: 9780226306179.

10 Husserl

Buy at Amazon Husserl, Edmund. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Translated by W. R. Boyce Gibson. New York, NY: Collier, 1969, pp. 45-55, 171-179, and 242-243.

Buy at Amazon ———. "Philosophy as Rigorous Science." In Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy. Translated by Quentin Lauer. New York, NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1965, pp. 71-75, 98-109, 136-137, and 142-143. ISBN: 9780061311703.

11 Heidegger

Buy at Amazon Heidegger, Martin. "Building Dwelling Thinking." In Poetry, Language, Thought. Translated by Albert Hofstadter. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2001. ISBN: 9780060937287.

Buy at Amazon Norberg-Schultz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1991, selected pages. ISBN: 9780847802876.

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13 Course wrap-up Buy at Amazon Fussell, Paul. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1992, pp. 26-33, 38-39, 51-59, 64-65, 80-81, 90-93, 162-163, and 194-197. ISBN: 9780671792251.