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Introduction |
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Megacities |
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Blobs, Curves and the Formless |
Buildings to Study: Frank Gehry - Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Greg Lynn - Artists' Space Installation, New York |
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Theory Outtake 1 |
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Bodies |
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CTRL [Space] |
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Environmentalism |
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Architecture and Deconstruction |
Buildings to Study: Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette; Projects featured in the MOMA show of 1988 |
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The New York Five |
Buildings to Study: Peter Eisenman - House II, VI, X; Charles Gwathmey; John Hejduk; Michael Graves - Benacerraf House addition |
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First Interim Exam |
Questions will be based on readings. Length of total required responses: 1500 words. Students will have a choice between more standard, explicatory questions relating to the readings already done, or more interpretive essay questions. The former will have higher weight. |
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Architecture and Post-Modernism |
Buildings to Study: James Stirling - Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Robert Venturi - National Gallery Extension, London |
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Kenneth Frampton and Critical Regionalism |
Buildings to Study: Alvar Aalto - Saynatsalo Town Hall; Tadao Ando - Koshino House, Osaka; Jörn Utzon - Bagsvaerd Church |
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Modernisms Elsewhere |
Buildings to Study: Jo Noero - Soweto Career Center, House Nxumalo; Charles Correa - Belapur Township |
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Vernacularism |
Building to Study: Hassan Fathy - New Gourna Township |
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Critiques of Modernism |
Buildings to Study: Atelier Lucien Kroll - Medical Faculty Building, University of Louvain; Ralph Erskine - Byker Wall, Newcastle; Candilis, Josic and Woods - Berlin Freie University |
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Theory Outtake 2 |
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Phenomenology and Place |
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Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn |
Buildings to Study: Louis Kahn - Salk Institute, Kimbell Museum, Dhaka National Assembly Building, Philips Exeter Building |
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Second Interim Exam |
Questions will be based on readings. Length of total required responses: 1500 words. Students will have a choice between more standard, explicatory questions relating to the readings already done, or more interpretive essay questions. The former will have higher weight. |
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Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown |
Buildings to Study: Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - Vanna Venturi House, Guild Hall |
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Aldo Rossi and the Archetypes of Memory |
Building to Study: Aldo Rossi - San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena |
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Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School |
Building to Study: Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi, Gallaratese quarter, Milan, 1967-73. |
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Theory Outtake 3 |
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Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds |
Buildings to Study: Compare Archigram and Superstudio Projects |
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1968 |
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| 26 |
Traces on the City |
Buildings to Study: Situationist projects; Projects by Constant |
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Technofantasy / Megastructure |
Buildings to Study: Cedric Price - The Fun Palace; Archigram projects |
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Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State |
Buildings to Study: James Stirling - Engineering Building, Leicester University, History Faculty Building, Cambridge University; Alison and Peter Smithson - Sheffield University Extension |
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Final Paper (4500 words) Due |
Paper should be a research paper on a topic decided upon by consultation between the student, the instructor and the teaching assistant. |
