ARCH4451
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ARCH 4451 - Contemporary Architectural Thinking (3 Cr.)
Course description
This course examines major architectural theories and debates which have informed, catalyzed, or destabilized the discourse of architecture in the past seven decades. Focusing on selected key texts, ideologies, and figures, the course considers the changing role of architectural theory—as a vehicle of thought, a guide for practice, a catalyst for design, and a platform for debate. Topics shows formal or theoretical resonances in the problematics and poetics of architectural productions apropos of the technofantasist neo-avant-gardism, the post-structural semiosis, the postmodern consumerism, conceptual architecture, pop architecture, hippie counterculture, etc.
Minimum credits
3
Maximum credits
3
Is this course repeatable?
No
Grading basis
AFV - A-F or Audit
Lecture
Requirements
010620
Fulfills the writing intensive requirement?
No
Typically offered term(s)
Periodic Fall & Spring