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1 Advanced Theories of Architecture M & 350R Post-Professional Seminar Instructor: Dr Danilo Udovčki-Selb (In collaboration with Larry Allan Doll) Wednesdays 7:00 pm 10:00 pm BTL 101 Office: BTL Land Phone: Cell Phone: Office Hours: Thursdays 3:30 pm 5 pm (Or by appointment) PRE-REQUISITE Admission to the M Arch2 program or special permission of instructors Students with disabilities (physical or cognitive) may request appropriate academic accommodations from the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, Services for Students with Disabilities, , EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES The seminar will be taught in coordination with Prof Larry Doll) The first part of the course (September) will be conceived as a broad introductory theoretical / conceptual framework for the explorations that Prof. Doll will be leading in the Second Part of the seminar directly applied to contemporary architecture. ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION This class is a seminar and it requires that every student participate in the discussions every week. If you must miss a class because of trips in other classes or extreme illness you will need to notify me in advance and make up the work. More than two absences (excused or not) will constitute grounds for dropping or failure of the class. Absences due to religious creeds must be declared to the instructor at the start of semester On the Tuesdays before each class you should post a question about the readings by 10:00 am on the discussion board of the Black Board, so that each student get familiarized with the issues each student raised. You will also be responsible for writing weekly a one page critical report (or abstract) about the readings. You will send it to my attention at selb@mail.utexas.edu by 10:00am on the same day. GRADING POLICY: Required Regular Attendance and Participation in Discussions. (Considered in determining of grade: 50%). Weekly Reading Reports and Question (Considered in determining of grade: 50%). A Reader will be available for purchase at he Dobbie Mall.

2 ADVANCED THEORY Part I P ost Professional Seminar TABLE OF CONTENTS WEEK 1 August 31 Introduction: Why Theory? Theory and Practice : Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Rafael Moneo, in Assemblage, n. 41, April 2000 Some Contemporary Paradigms: Formalism, Hermeneutics, Theory of Reception Danilo Udovicki-Selb, Between Formalism and Deconstruction: Hans Georg Gadamer s Hermeneutics and the Aesthetics of Reception in The Education of the Architect, (MIT Press) p Robert Holub, Reception Theory, (London: Methuen), 1984, pp. Xi - 45 Week 2 September 7 Historic Determinism and The Legacy of Positivism: A Search for Origins Marc-Antoine Laugier, Essay on Architecture (1753; tr. Wolfgang Herrmann, Los Angeles: Hennessey & Ingalls, 1977), Gottfried Semper, The Four Elements of Architecture, (1851) in Gottfried Semper, The Four Elements of Architecture and Other Writings, Harry Francis Mallgrave and Wolfgang Herrmann, trans. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989): Hannes Meyer, Building Bauhaus: Zeitschrift für Gestaltung (Dessau, 2 nd year, 1928), 153f; reprinted in Ulrich Conrads, ed., Programs and Manifestoes on 20 th -Century Architecture, trans. Michael Bullock (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1970), Week 3 September 14 Rejection of Logical Axioms (Positivism): Phenomenology Kenneth Frampton, On reading Heidegger, Editorial, OPPOSITIONS Reader, M. Hays, Ed. Pp 3-6 Martin Heidegger, Building, Dwelling, Thinking, (excerpts) from Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), ; reprinted in Neil Leach, ed., Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), Gaston Bachelard, Poetics of Space (1958, excerpt); reprinted in Neil Leach, ed., Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), Alberto Perez-Gomez introduction in Architecture and the Crisis of Modern Science, In Hays, 2000, pp Week 4 September 21 Architecture and Ideology Jürgen Habermas, Modernity versus Post-modernity in New Critique n. 22, winter p Michel Foucault, Space, Knowledge and Power, Interview, 1982, Hays, p Frederic Jameson Architecture and the Critique of Ideology, paper presented in 1982, Hays, p Mary McLeod, Architecture and Politics in the Reagan Era: From Postmodernism to Deconstructivism. in Hays, in Architecture Theory since 1968, pp

3 Week 5 September 28 Critical Regionalism and the Architecture of Resistance Kenneth Frampton, Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance, in The Anti-Aesthetic: Essays on Postmodern Culture, Hal Foster, ed. (Bay Press), 1983,pp Alan Colquhoun, Regionalism and Technology, in Modernity and the Classical Tradition (MIT Press), 1989, pp Ignasi de Solà Morales, Weak Architecture 1987, p Sarah Williams Goldhagen, Ultraviolet: Alvar Aalto s Embodied Rationalism, in Harvard Design Magazine, pp Week 6 October 5 Theories of Space Modern Architecture as Space Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000), Bruno Zevi, Architecture as Space (tr. Milton Gendel, New York: Horizon, 1957): Space--Protagonist of Architecture, Henri Lefebvre from the Production of Space, in K. Michael Hays, ed. Architecture Theory Since 1968 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 2000, pp Editor s Introduction: I. Writing Modern Art and Science An Overview; II. Cubism, Futurism, and Ether Physics in the Early Twentieth Century. Curriculum Vitae As required by recent UT Policy 1996 Doctoral Degree, MIT, in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture 1980 MA Philosophy Boston College 1975 MA Urban Planning Belgrade University 1970 Professional degree Architecture Assistant Professor Associate Professor 1996-Present UT AFFILIATED FACULTY: Center for Russian, East-European and Eurasian Studies Center for European Studies, EDITORIAL BOARD and US CORRESPONDENT, IL GIORNALE DELL ARCHITETTURA (Turin, Italy) ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM TADAO ANDO RETICENTE E FUORI SCALA IN TEXAS, 1/ 2, DECEMBER 2002; LIBESKIND IL NUOVO FREDERIC C. HAMILTON BUILDING DEL DENVER ART MUSEUM (DAM): UN MUSEO IMMAGINATO IN AEREO PRIMA OPERA DI LIBESKIND NEGLI STATI UNITI, 5/43 September MOCABEE, RURAL STUDIO REVISITED, +5, July 2008 B. CLOEPFILD ALLIED WORKS SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: MODERNISMO DOPO POSTMODERNISMO, 6/52, JUNE SAANA NEW MODERN MUSEUM UN MAGAZZINO PER L ARTE A NEW YORK: METAFORA DEL DISORDINE VERTICALE, 7/58, January K. YANTRASAST GRAND RAPIDS ART MUSEUM: DALLA SPETTACOLARITÀ ALLA SOSTENIBILITÀ 7/58, January /58, January, ZAHA HADID ROSENTHAL CENTER + 5 DA ZAHA HADID, 7/60. March K. ROCHE RIAPERTO IL METROPOLITAN MUSEUM: IL DIALOGO CON IL PÚBBLICO DEL FUTURO, May PENTAGON DESIGN MITI AMERICANI IN VETRINA: MILWAUKEE MUSEO UNISEX PER LA HARLEY -DAVIDSON, 5/65 September 2008.

4 GWATHMEY L ALLIEVO SUPERA IL MAESTRO?: CHARLES GWATHMEY ALLA YALE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, 7/66, October 2008 ALLIED WORKS, MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN (MAD) A NEW YORK: IL PRÓFUGO DAL LOLLIPOP BUILDING, 7/66, October REM KOOLHAS REVISITED : LA BIBLIOTECA DI SEATTLE +5 May MUORE CHARLES GWATHMEY, 8/77, September Cardenal AMERICAN INDIAN MUSEUM, Washington+5, October NUOVO CENTRO CIVICO A DALLAS, November, CLINTON PRESIDENTIAL CENTER +5 February 2010, January, 2010 IL MODELLO DUBAI COLPISCE ANCORA: DOPO LA STRIP, UNA NUOVA ICONA LIBESKIND, MGM MIRAGE, C. PELLI, VIÑOLY DOPO LA STRIP, UNA NUOVA ICONAURBANA PER LAS VEGAS 9/ PHIFER RALEIGH (NC) ART MUSEUM DI PHIFER: RIVISITA DI MIES E KAHN, 9/82 MARCH 10 MONOGRAPHS The Evolution of Soviet Architectural Culture Under Stalin s Perestroika (Trondheim: University Of Norway), CHAPTERS in Books Elusive Faces Of Modernity: The Decade Long Urban Debates On The Future Of Paris, in Great Urban Events of the Twentieth Century (Milano: Academia Universa Press), Forthcoming, Spring 2012 Facing Hitler s Pavilion: The Soviet Pavilion at the 1937 Paris Fair in Sites Of Convergence: East- European Countries at the World Fairs (Pittsburg: University of Pittsburg Press), Kritika series, Fall 2012 Les Constructivistes face à Staline: Sanatoriums méconnus des Années Trente de Moscou au Caucase, in Histoire et réhabilitation des sanatoriums. Ed. Bernard Toulier and Jean- Bernard Cremnitzer, ed. Collection: Les réseaux de la modernité au XXe siècle (DOCOMOMO International, Paris) Les Engagements de Charlotte Perriand pour L Exposition de 1937: Le Corbusier, Les Jeunes 37 et Le Front Populaire, Exhibition Catalogue (Paris: Pompidou Centre), Cétait dans l Air du Temps : Charlotte Perriand and the Popular Front in Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living. Ed. Mary McLeod, (New York: Abrams), 2004, In the Shadow of Stalin: Sanatorium at Kislovodsk, The Swan s Song of Constructivist Mojsej Ginzburg in The Architecture of Modern Hospitals (Groningen University Press), Between n Formalism and Deconstruction: Hans Georg Gadamer s Hermeneutics and the Aesthetics of Reception, in The Education of the Architect: Historiography, Urbanism and the Growth of Architectural Knowledge (Essays in Honor of Professor Stanford Anderson), (Cambridge MA: MIT Press), Les Engagements de Charlotte Perriand pour L Exposition de 1937: Le Corbusier, Les Jeunes 37 et Le Front Populaire, Exhibition Catalogue (Paris: Centre Pompidou), Fitting out the Logis, Fitting out the City: Le Corbusier s 1937 International Laboratory of the Dwelling, Conceived for the International Exhibition of 1937 in Paris. InIfrastructures Villes et Territoires, (Paris: L'Harmattan), Projets et Concours, in Exposition de Paris, 1937: Ciquantenaire, Ed., Bertrand Lemoine, Exhib. Cat. (Paris: Musée d Art Moderne / IFA, 1987). ]. ARTICLES in Refereed Journals "Between Modernism and Socialist Realism: Soviet Architectural Culture Under Stalin s Revolution from Above, December 2009.Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians" (JSAH),

5 Elusive Faces of Modernity: Jacques Gréber and the Planning of the 1937 Paris World Fair, in Special Issue Urban History Review / Revue d Histoire Urbaine, Canada vol. XXIX, No. 2 (March 2001). ENCYCLOPEDIAS Le Corbusier and the 1937 Paris Exposition: The Temps Nouveaux Pavilion in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March, 1997 Encyclopedia of 20 th Century Architecture, Steven Sennott, ed. (Fitzroy Deaborn: New York London), Four entries. Charlotte Perriand, entry in the Encyclopedia of Interior Design (London: Fitzroy Dearborn), ]. Dictionaire de l Urbanisme, Françoise Choay and Pierre Merlin, second revised edition (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France), 1995 (1 st edition 1986). Seven entries.