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Visions and Agendas in Architecture (ABPL90403)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2019
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This subject introduces an ongoing study of theories and polemics for architectural design from early modern times to the present. Figures such as Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, Sigfried Giedion, Robert Venturi, Manfredo Tafuri, Kazuo Shinohara, and Rem Koolhaas are introduced and examined. The subject covers not only a history of the efforts of theorizing a progressive design agenda in modern society; it also explores persistent themes – such as space, vision, zeitgeist and tradition – that are still open to debate today. This subject provides an academic basis for critiques in design practice – in the studios and beyond. Based on critical and historical reading, it invites students to speculate on new agendas of design thinking for our time with its conditions, problems and prospects.
Intended learning outcomes
- To become familiarized with some important and selected design theories as promoted by influential figures in the history of architecture, especially its modern and current stages.
- To develop skills in proposing a self-selected project of theorization for design
- To develop skills in searching materials needed for developing a project of theorization for design.
- To develop skills in communicating – verbal, visual and textual – one's project of theorization for design.
- To develop skills in the formal presentation of one's project of design theorization through a systematic, visual and written documentation to a publishable standard.
- To train and cultivate critical thinking on design, on architecture and on the city, in a social and cultural context.
Generic skills
- Researching; Visual Reading and Understanding
- Visual and oral presentation techniques
- Creative Thinking
- Critical thinking and analysis.
Last updated: 3 November 2022