Second Year HTS Introduction This year, History and Theory introduces a new form of teaching to the Second Year students. We have found that in the last few years the provision of personal tutorials has proved to be very successful. As such History and Theory in the Second Year will now be fore grounded in the personal tutorial. Students will from the beginning have a personal tutor whom they will see at regular intervals throughout the academic year. The function of the tutorials itself has also been expanded. Students will now have a space to help shape the year in a way, which responds in detail to their particular interest and wishes. The tutor will act as a personal tutor and discussions with him or her will include the reading that students are doing for the seminars and also the preparation and feedback from the student s essay. They will also have time to discuss what each individual student wants from the year in general and what general questions about architecture they are interested in. Seminars themselves will be less frequent and will be devoted to larger group discussions on the course topic, as it evolves throughout the year. The further innovation is that twice a term, there will be a presentation with all staff and students present, which will last for a morning (10am-1pm) on the day of the course. This presentation will contain a short lecture from Mark Cousins, together with brief and prepared presentations by students and other teachers. This cycle of tutorials, seminar and presentation is designed to cover a fundamental issue in architecture and in your own architectural education at this stage of your study. Over the two terms four topics will be covered. In Term 1 we will study Architectural Representation with respect to both the building and the city. In Term 2 we will look at the House and the Monumental. A full description of both terms follows below. Structure History and Theory will run every Thursday from 10am to 1pm. From 10am- 11:45am, students will be with their private seminar tutor in rooms to be allocated in the first week of teaching. From 12pm to 1pm, all second year students are to attend a lecture in the Rear Presentation Space to be given by Mark Cousins. Term 1: Architectural Representation and the Plan In the first term, we will be concentrating on architectural representation. Central to this is the issue of the plan, although secondary forms of representation such as sections and elevations will also be covered. The plan has for a very long time been the centrepiece of thoughts about architectural design. We want students to read some central texts about the plan and about architectural drawing as well as exploring questions about the history of the plan, about design without plans and in more contemporary terms, about the issues of the plan and the digital. Although we do not pretend to give a systematic history of architectural representation, we will concentrate on the question of design and representation in Classical Antiquity, the Gothic, the Renaissance and the Classical Tradition, the Beaux-Arts,
Modernism, and our current transition to the Digital. We hope to give students the confidence and the knowledge to enter into discussions in the school about design, about drawing, about Cad etc. Schedule for Term 1 Week 1 Week 2 (6 th Oct.)- AA Introduction Week No HTS Class INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION Required Reading Benjamin, Walter, Theses on the Philosophy of History, p. 235-264 in Illuminations, Schocken Books, 2007. Colquhoun, Alan, Introduction: Modern Architecture and Historicity, p. 11-19 in Essays in Architectural Criticism: Modern Architecture and Historical Change, MIT Press, 1995. Forty, Adrian, History, p. 196-205, in Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, Thames and Hudson Ltd. 2004. Week 3 (13 th Oct.) - THE RENAISSANCE & THE CLASSICAL TRADITION Required Reading Alberti, L.B., Book One: The Lineaments p. 7-32 in On the Art of building in Ten Books Laugier, Marc-Antoine, Introduction and General Principles of Architecture p. 7-14 in An Essay on Architecture Vitruvius, The Terms of Architecture p. 24-26 in Ten Books on Architecture Week 4 (20 th Oct.) THE BEAUX-ARTS Dexler, Arthure, short texts from The Architecture of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, MOMA, 1977 Durand, Jean-Nicholas-Louis, Compositions in General, p.119-127 in Precis of the Lectures on Architecture, The Getty Institute of Publications Program, 2000 Viollet-Le-Duc, Eugene; Bucknall, Benjamin, Lecture XIV. On the Teaching of Architecture p.140-169 in Discourses on Architecture, Grove Press, 1959 Week 5 (27 th Oct.) - MODERNISM Forty, Adrian, Space p. in Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, Thames & Hudson, 2000
Le Corbusier, The Illusion of Plans p.164-184 in Towards a New Architecture Summerson, John, Classical into Modern p.40-46 in The Classical Language of Architecture Week 6 (3 rd Nov.) Week 7 (10 th Nov.) - AA Open Week All Complementary Courses are suspended THE DIGITAL Evans, Robin, Translations from drawing to building p. 153-93, in Translations from Drawing to Building, London, 1997 Lynn, Greg, Amor(f)al Architecture p.9-14 and The Folded, the Pliant and the Supple p.109-134 in Folds, Bodies & Blobs; Collected Essays, Ante Post 1998 Week 8 (17 th Nov.) - NON-PLAN Banham, Rayner; Barker, Paul; Hall, Peter; Price, Cedric, Non-Plan: An experiment in Freedom in New Society No. 338 March, 1969 Barker, Paul, Thinking the Unthinkable p.2-21 in Non- Plan: Essays on Freedom Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Routledge, 2000 Price, Cedric, Non-Plan p.269-273 in Architectural Design May, 1969 Week 9 (24 th Nov.) - ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION & THE CITY Koolhaas, Rem, Prehistory p.13-27 in Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, The Monacelli Press, 1994 Sassen, Saskia, The Impact of New Technologies and Globalization on Cities p.554-562 in The City Reader, Routledge, 2011 Rossi, Aldo, Introduction: Urban Artifacts and a Theory of the City p.20-27 in The Architecture of the City, MIT Press, 1984 Rowe, Colin; Koetter, Fred, Introduction p.2-8 in Collage City, MIT Press, 1983 Friday 9 th December (by 1 pm)- TERM 1 ESSAY SUBMISSION
Term 2: The House and the Monumental Architecture works at both the level of the home and the monumental. There are both differences and similarities in architectural terms between these two poles. The question of the house will first be thought of in terms of how architecture is, and has been in the past, thought of. This is considered around the category of the domestic. We also consider the architectural role of the house, both analytically and historically, in terms of its role in the city, especially when the city becomes the fundamental reality of architecture. In the second half of the term, we consider the city from the point of view of architecture. To start with, this entails looking at what is often called the Monumental, which we normally associate with being the centre of the city and would include large architectural objects such as Palaces, government buildings, Churches, law-courts and elements of transport and places of entertainment and recreation. This involves looking at the structure of cities historically and in terms of the political and governmental changes, which determined the fate of the city. We look at the development of urbanism as in some sense a non-architectural discipline and practice, which tries to establish an analysis of the city and how to reform it. This introduces the category of bio-politics, which for many scholars is the way to understand urban processes in Modernity. Finally, we will consider how the system of the city manifests itself in signage, infrastructure, and architecture itself. Schedule for Term 2 Week 1 (12 th Jan.) - THE HOUSE Required Seminar Readings: Benjamin, Walter, 'Paris, the Capital of the Nineteenth Century', in The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility and Other Writings on Media, Harvard University Press, 2008. Read section 'IV. Louis Phillipe, or the Interior', p. 102-104. Agamben, Giorgio, 'Preface' and 'The Mystery of Economy, 2.1-2.3' in The Kingdom and the Glory, Stanford University Press, 2011, xi-xiii and p. 17-25. Banham, R. 'A Home is not a House', in Art in America, Number 2, April 1965. Drawings by François Dallegret. Week 2 (19 th Jan.) - THE ENGINEER & INFRASTRUCTURE Gandy, M. The Paris Sewers and the Rationalization of Urban Space Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 24 (1) (1999), pp. 23-44. Castells, Manuel, The Network and the Self, in The Rise of the Network Society, Wiley, 1996, p. 1-25. Picon, A. The Engineers System in French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, 2009, p. 99-120
Week 3 (26 th Jan.) - NATIONAL IDENTITY & ARCHITECTURE Frampton, Kenneth, Critical Regionalism: modern architecture and cultural identity, p. 314-327, in Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Thames and Hudson, Ltd. London, 1992. Hitchcock, Henry-Russell and Johnson, Phillip, Introduction, p. 33-37; Chapter IV-VII, p. 55-89, in International Style, W.W. Norton & Company, 1995 Edition. Appadurai, Arjun, Global Ethnoscapes: Notes and Queries for a Transitional Anthropology, in Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization, University Press, 1996, p. 48-65. Week 4 (2 nd Feb.) - POLITICAL IDENTITY & ARCHITECTURE Frampton, K., Architecture and the State: Ideology and Representation, p. 210-223 in Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Thames & Hudson, 2007. Debord, Guy, The Culmination of Separation, in Society of the Spectacle, Rebel Press, p. 6-17. Aureli, Pier Vittorio, Toward the Archipelago: Defining the Political and the Formal in Architecture in The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture, The MIT Press, 2011, p. 1-13. Week 5 (9 th Feb.) - Week 6 (16 th Feb.) - AA Open Week All Complementary Courses are suspended THE MONUMENT Sert, J.L., Leger, Fernand, Gideon, Sigfried, Nine Points of Monumentality p. 27-30 in Architecture Culture 1943-1968, Rizzoli, 1993. Choay, Francoise, The Concept of the Historical Monument As Such, p. 84-94, in The Invention of the Historic Monument, Cambridge University Press, 2001. RA Carpo, Mario, The Postmodern Cult of Monuments, in Future Anterior Volume IV, Number 2, Winter 2007, pp. 51-57 Week 7 (23 rd Feb.) - ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT BUILDING Choay, Francoise, Utopia and the Anthropological Status of Built Space, p. 96-103. Menkin, William, The Revolt of the Object, in Superstudio: Life without Objects, Skira (Rizzoli), 2003, p.52-63. Eisenman, Peter, 'Representations of the Limit: Writing a
'Not-Architecture' in Re:Working Eisenman, Academy Editions, 1993, p. 34-37. Week 8 (2 nd March) - THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ARCHITECTURE Hugo, Victor, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Book V, Chapter II This Will Kill That. Ruskin, John, The Lamp of Memory, p. 146-164, in The Seven Lamps of Architecture, Dover Books, 1990 Edition, Phelan, Peggy, Building the Life Drive: Architecture As Repetition, p. 289-300, in Herzog and de Meuron, Natural History, Lars Mueller, 2003. Thursday 23 rd March (by 1 pm)- TERM 2 ESSAY SUBMISSION Assessment Students must pass the course in order to proceed to the Third Year. Passing is defined by passing both written submissions and by your tutors judgment that you have attended tutorials, seminars and presentations and that you have done the reading for seminars and made a positive contribution through the year. The topics of your written submissions must be agreed upon with your tutor and must be handed in by the dates, which are identified above. The initial marking will be carried out as soon as possible and certainly by the first week of the following term. Essays will initially be graded as pass or complete to pass. An essay, which is submitted late will only be given a bare pass - in AA terms a Low Pass. A few students may be nominated by their Tutor for a High Pass, but the decision on this, which is taken after being read by a committee, will not be available until the first week of the third term when the process is also linked to Short-listing for the Writing Prize.