4.665 | Spring 2002 | Graduate

Contemporary Architecture and Critical Debate

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LEC # TOPICS Discussion
1 Introduction  
2 Megacities  
3 Blobs, Curves and the Formless Buildings to Study: Frank Gehry - Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Greg Lynn - Artists’ Space Installation, New York
4 Theory Outtake 1  
5 Bodies  
6 CTRL [Space]  
7 Environmentalism  
8 Architecture and Deconstruction Buildings to Study: Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette; Projects featured in the MOMA show of 1988
9 The New York Five Buildings to Study: Peter Eisenman - House II, VI, X; Charles Gwathmey; John Hejduk; Michael Graves - Benacerraf House addition
10 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.
11 Architecture and Post-Modernism Buildings to Study: James Stirling - Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart; Robert Venturi - National Gallery Extension, London
12 Kenneth Frampton and Critical Regionalism Buildings to Study: Alvar Aalto - Saynatsalo Town Hall; Tadao Ando - Koshino House, Osaka; Jörn Utzon - Bagsvaerd Church
13 Modernisms Elsewhere Buildings to Study: Jo Noero - Soweto Career Center, House Nxumalo; Charles Correa - Belapur Township
14 Vernacularism Building to Study: Hassan Fathy - New Gourna Township
15 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
16 Theory Outtake 2  
17 Phenomenology and Place  
18 Minimalism and Monumentality - Louis Kahn Buildings to Study: Louis Kahn - Salk Institute, Kimbell Museum, Dhaka National Assembly Building, Philips Exeter Building
19 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.
20 Voyages into the Surface - Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown Buildings to Study: Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - Vanna Venturi House, Guild Hall
21 Aldo Rossi and the Archetypes of Memory Building to Study: Aldo Rossi - San Cataldo Cemetery, Modena
22 Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice School Building to Study: Carlo Aymonino and Aldo Rossi, Gallaratese quarter, Milan, 1967-73.
23 Theory Outtake 3  
24 Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds Buildings to Study: Compare Archigram and Superstudio Projects
25 1968  
26 Traces on the City Buildings to Study: Situationist projects; Projects by Constant
27 Technofantasy / Megastructure Buildings to Study: Cedric Price - The Fun Palace; Archigram projects
28 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
29 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.

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