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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Architecture |
| Grao en Arquitectura |
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| Architectural Theory |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Architectural Theory | Code | 630G01025 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| PART 1 [Introduction] | Origins of architectural thought: Classic Treatises Encoded Architecture: Architecture and Culture Origins and evolution: The Primitive Hut, from Vitrivius to Laugier Forms of technique: matter, construction and thought Forms of beauty: art, aesthetic and thought |
| PART 2. TECHNIQUE AND MODERNITY | Classic legacy disruption: Arts&Crafts, Viollet-le-Duc, Art-Nouveau Movements and the first Frank Lloyd Wright Industry and Architecture. The standardization issue: from Paxton to the DeuthscherWerkbund Mecanization and Architecture: the Chicago School Mies van der Rohe and the technique trascended |
| PART 3. ART AND MODERNITY | The two Viennese ways: Hoffmann and Loos The Avant-Garde Movements and their consequences: Bauhaus, Neoplasticism and Constructivism Le Corbusier: art and technique |
| PART 4. TOWARDS OUR PRESENT: THE CRISIS OF THE MODERNITY | Other modernities: the Nordic, the Italian and the Spanish interpretation From contention to exaltation of form: Rudolf Schindler New methodological perspectives: Structuralism Social dynamics after the II World War: The last Mies and The Smithson |
| PART 5 [Conclusions] | Architectural thought and Contemporaneity From the Situationist Theory to the Architecture of Spectacle. New perspectives after the 2007 crisis: social responsability and environmental awareness |
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