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1 Architecture 314 Professors Di Palma, Ghirardo, Steele MW 8:30-9:50 am, Harris 101 Arch 314, Part I: Prof. D. Ghirardo Course Objectives: The readings and assignments are designed to encourage critical thinking and analytical skills, in addition to an understanding of the criticisms leveled against the modern movement during the 1960s. Ghirardo Exams: Take home essay; 10 question true false quiz. Essay: 32% of grade for this part of the course Quiz: 3% of grade for this part of the course Week 1: August 27 & 29 Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (New York: Vintage 1961), 3-73, , , , , see study questions Ghirardo, Architecture After Modernism (London and New York: Thames and Hudson 1996), pp Week 2: September 5 Prof. Steele Week 3: September 10 & 12 9/10: Jacobs, cont d 9/12: Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City ([1966]; Cambridge MA: MIT Press 1982), Ch. 1, Ch. 3 Week 4: September 17 & 19 Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, Ch. 4 Exam available online noon, Sept. 19 Week 5: September 24 Exam due online 10am September 24, hardcopy in class at 8:30 am Class discussion: Challenge to the Modern Movement Arch 314, Part II: Prof. J. Steele Week 5 (continue): September 26 T/F quiz first 10 minutes of class. The Current State of the Modern Project Anthony Giddens: The Consequences of Modernity Stanford University Press, Stanford, Ca Introduction pp.1-54, Chapter II, pp

2 Week 6: October 1 & 3 10/1 Critical Regionalism Kenneth Frampton, "Towards a Critical Regionalism: Six Points for an Architecture of Resistance", in The Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture (1983) edited by Hal Foster, Bay Press, Seattle. Alexander Tzonis and Keith R. Abrams: Tropical Architecture: Critical Regionalism in the Age of Globalization, Lavoisier, Paris, /3 Hyper-identity Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture Routledge, 1994, pp.1-18, 66-84, Week 7: October 8 & 10 10/8 Ecological Architecture James Steele: Sustainable Architecture: Principles, Paradigms, and Case Studies, McGraw-Hill, /10 Contemporary Architecture in Asia Week 8: October 15 & 17 10/15 The Mysterious Allure of Flatness Mark Linder: Nothing Less Than Literal: Architecture After Minimalism MIT Press, Cambridge, 2004, pp (Text) 10/17 Technological Determinism Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism Duke University Press, Durham, N.C pp. 1-54, Week 9: October 22 & 24 10/22 Review 10/24 Exam for Section II Architecture 314: Part III: Contemporary Currents Prof. V. Di Palma Week 10: October 29 & 31 10/29 From the Manifesto to the Anthology Sylvia Lavin, "Theory into History; Or, the Will to Anthology," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians vol. 58, no. 3 (Sept. 1999): A. Krysta Sykes, "Introduction," Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory, , edited by A. Krysta Sykes (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010): 14-27

3 K. Michael Hays, "Afterword," Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory, , edited by A. Krysta Sykes (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010): /31 Criticality and its Discontents Sylvia Lavin, The Uses and Abuses of Theory," Progressive Architecture 71:8 (August 1990): , 179 Michael Hays. "Rebuttal: Theory as a Mediating Practice," Progressive Architecture 71:11 (November 1990): Mark Jarzombek, "The State of Theory," in Architecture and Theory: Production and Reflection, edited by Louise King (Hamburg, Germany: Junius Verlag, 2009): Week 11: November 5 & 7 11/5 Diagrams and the Diagrammatic Robert Somol, "Dummy Text, or the Diagrammatic Basis of Contemporary Architecture," in Peter Eisenman, Diagram Diaries (New York: Universe, 1999): 6-25 Anthony Vidler, "Diagrams of Diagrams: Architectural Abstraction and Modern Representation," Representations 72 (Autumn 2000): /7 A New Organicism Greg Lynn, "Architectural Curvilinearity: The Folded, The Pliant, and the Supple," Architectural Design 102 (March/April 1993), reprinted in Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory, , edited by A. Krysta Sykes (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010): Jorge Silvetti, "The Muses are not Amused: Pandemonium in the House of Architecture," The New Architectural Pragmatism: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader, edited by William Saunders (Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press 2004): Week 12: November 12 & 14 11/12 Architecture as Media Toyo Ito, "Tarzans in the Media Forest," 2G, #2 (1997): Beatriz Colomina, "Information Obsession: Multiscreen Architecture," ANYthing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001): Mark Wigley, "Network Fever," Grey Room #4 (2001): /14 Ornament and Surface Jeffrey Kipnis, "The Cunning of Cosmetics," El Croquis 84 (1997): 22-29

4 Farshid Moussavi and Michael Kubo, "Introduction," The Function of Ornament (Barcelona: ACTAR, 2006): n.p. Robert Levit: "Contemporary Ornament: The Return of the Symbolic Repressed," Harvard Design Magazine 28 (Spring/Summer 2008): Week 13: November 19 & 21 11/19 From Object to Field Charles Waldheim, "Landscape as Urbanism," The Landscape Urbanism Reader (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006): James Corner, "Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes," Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999): /21 Non-Place/Junkspace Marc Auge, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (New York: Verso: 1995): chapter 3. Rem Koolhaas, "The Generic City," Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL (New York: Monacelli Press, 1995): Rem Koolhaas, "Junkspace," October 100 (Spring 2002): Week 14: November 26 & 28 11/26 Urban Decay Ignaci de Sola-Morales, "Terrain Vague," ANYplace (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995): Antoine Picon, "Anxious Landscapes: From the Ruin to Rust," Grey Room 1 (Fall 2000): Alan Berger, "Drosscape," The Landscape Urbanism Reader (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2006): /28 Megacity Film screening: Lagos/Koolhaas (written and directed by Bregtje van der Haak, 2003) Arjun Appadurai, "Disjuncture and Difference in the Global Cultural Economy," Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization (University of Minnesota Press, 1996): Reinhold Martin and Kadambari Baxi, Multi-National City: Architectural Itineraries (Barcelona: ACTAR, 2007): chapter 2. Week 15: December 3 & 5 12/3 Nature, Ecology, Utopia

5 Michael Pollan, "Beyond Wilderness and Lawn," Nature, Landscape, and Building for Sustainability, ed. William S. Saunders (Minneapolis; University of Minnesota Press, 2008): Mohsen Mostafavi, "Why Ecological Urbanism? Why Now?" Ecological Urbanism, edited by Mohsen Mostafavi with Gareth Doherty (Zürich: Lars Müller, 2010) 12/5 Conclusion and Review Grade Distribution is: Section I Diane Ghirardo: Exam I and Quizzes: 30% Section II James Steele Exam II: 35% Section III Vittoria DiPalma: Exam III, (Final) 35%

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ARCH 314: Architectural Theory Since 1960 Professor Vittoria Di Palma Fall 2013 Mondays/Wednesdays 9:00-10:20 Harris 101

ARCH 314: Architectural Theory Since 1960 Professor Vittoria Di Palma Fall 2013 Mondays/Wednesdays 9:00-10:20 Harris 101 Office Hours: Fridays 9:00-10:00, and by appointment Course Description This lecture