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Teaching GuideTerm Higher Technical University College of Architecture |
| Grao en Estudos de Arquitectura |
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| Theory of Architecture |
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| Identifying Data | 2020/21 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Theory of Architecture | Code | 630G02025 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| PART I [Introduction] | 1 The origin of architectural thought: classic treatises The encoded architecture: architecture and culture. Origins and evolution: the primitive hut, from Vitruvius to Laugier The classic language: Schinkel, from origins to modernity 2 Forms of technique: matter, construction and thought Forms of beauty: art, aesthetics and thought Forms of social: politics, moral and thought |
| PART II. TECHNIQUE AND MODERNITY | 3 Semper: architecture and evolution Breakdown and classic legacy: Arts&Crafts, Viollet-le-Duc, Modernisms and the first Wright 4 Industry and architecture. The standardization issue: from Paxton to the Deutscher Werkbund Mechanization and architecture: the Chicago School 5 Mies van der Rohe and the transcended technique |
| PART III. ART AND MODERNITY | 6 The Viennese laboratory: Wagner, Hoffmann and Loos 7 Modernity in America: Wright 8 The intellectualization of art: Expressionism, Bauhaus, Neoplasticism 9 Le Corbusier: art and technique |
| PART IV. SOCIAL AND MODERNITY | 10 Russian Avant-garde: Suprematism Vs Productivism Futurism and revolution 11 The ABC group: politics and architecture |
| PARTE V. TOWARDS OUR PRESENT: THE MODERNITY CRISIS | 12 The other Modernities: the Nordic, Italian and Spanish interpretations From formal containment to formal exaltation: Rudolf Schindler 13 New methodologies: Structuralism Social dynamics after the II World War: the last Mies and the Smitshsons |
| PART VI [Conclusions] | 14 Architectural thought and Contemporaneity: from Complexity and contradiction to Delirious New York From the Situationist theory to the architecture of spectacle 15 New perspectives after the 2007 crisis: social responsibility and environmental awareness; from Buckmister Fuller to today. CONCLUSIONS |
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