Readings

SES # TOPICS READINGS
1 Course introduction Amazon logo "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

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

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

Amazon logo ———. "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

Amazon logo 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.

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

Amazon logo ———. "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.

Amazon logo 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.

Amazon logo 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.

Amazon logo 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.

Amazon logo 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

Amazon logo 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.

Amazon logo 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

Amazon logo 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.

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

Amazon logo 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

Amazon logo 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.

Amazon logo ———. "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

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

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

12 Debate 3  
13 Course wrap-up Amazon logo 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.