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Requirements:      This is a course for Graduate students Coordinator:           Ariel Brain Instructor:              Sotirios Kotsopoulos Semester:              Fall 2005 Lecture:                 Thursday  7:15 – 10:15 pm Contact:                skots@alum.mit.edu                                                                                         --- Part One ---                                                                                   WEEK 1:  Introduction                                                                            September 8 • Course policies and objectives • Hand out syllabus & questionnaire • Reader                                                                         WEEK 2: Origins, The Function of Art                                                             September 15   Arnold Hauser (1958).  "The Scope and Limitations of a Sociology of Art. The Philosophy of Art History. Trans. From the German. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press, 1985. • Art as a challenge: we do not explain it, we adjust ourselves to it  (Arnold Hauser). • Art as a riddle, goal is not to solve it, but to recognize it as a riddle (Martin Heidegger, "The Origins of the Work of Art"). • Truth and lies in art                                                                   WEEK 3:  Complex Form, Reconciliation of Opposites                                         September 22 Arnaldo Bruschi. "The Tempietto of S.Pietro in Montorio". Bramante. Thames & Hudson, 1977. • Donato Bramante’s Tempietto • Celebrating center and periphery • Objects harnessing complexity • Reconciliation of high and low, inside and outside, stasis and movement                                                                                    WEEK 4:  Dissolved Form                                                                     September 29 John Hejduk. "Out of Time and Into Space". Mask of Medusa. New York: Rizzoli, 1983. • Visit the Carpenter Center by Le Corbusier on Quincy Street, Cambridge • Interior and exterior as parts of the same system • Simultaneity and relativity in Cubism (1907-25)                                                                                     WEEK 5:  Individual Form                                                                     October 6 James S. Ackerman (1961). "Michelangelo's 'Theory' of Architecture."The Architecture of Michelangelo. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1986.  • Michelangelo avoids  the use of units, hides the joints, and attempts to approach the building through a unitary idea, • Members integrated by tension, compression, stress. • Michelangelo wanted an architecture based on individual perception, and not on universal principles. • The organic model vs. the geometric model                                                                                      WEEK 6:  Forms of Space                                                                       October 13 Christian Norberg-Schulz. "House". The concept of dwelling,On the way to figurative architecture.  New York: Electra/Rizzoli, 1985.  Christopher Alexander (1977). "Buildings". A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Oxford University Press, pp.  823-915 • Symbolic and materialist conceptions of space • Figural space: space as form • Space as continuity • Linear space: space as direction                                                                              WEEK 7:  Geometric Contradictions                                                               October 20   Colin Rowe (1947). "Mathematics of the Ideal Villa". Mathematics of the Ideal Villa and other essays. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1983. Lionel March (2000). "Palladio's  Villa Emo: the golden proportion hypothesis rebuted". Unpublished manuscript. • Andrea Palladio and Le Corbusier • Part to whole relationships • Purity and ambiguity                                                                                                                 WEEK 8:  Mid-term Presentations                                                               October 27                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            WEEK 9:  Film                                                                             November 3                                                                                               ---  Part Two  ---                                                                                     WEEK 10:  Fluid Geometry                                                                  November 10 Francesco Dal Co.  "The Architecture of Betrayal".  Tadao Ando, Complete Works.  London:  Phaidon Press, 1995.  • Time in architecture • Seeking seclusion • Integral geometry vs. fragmented geometry                                                                            WEEK 11:  Types , A Return to Origins                                                          November 17 Anthony Vidler.  "The Idea of Type:  The Transformation of the Academic Ideal, 1750-1830."  Oppositions Reader.  Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.  • Typology: the study of types • Typology and the search for meaning • Conceptual ideals (i.e. Justice) vs. functional ideals (ie. door, bridge) • Symbolic and materialist typology • The Primitive Hut vs. Ideal Temple • Quatremθre de Quincy and the Ideal Type                                                                            WEEK 12:  Thanksgiving Break-No Class                                                       November 24                                                                                                                                                                                                                     WEEK 13:  Post-Modernism                                                                  December 1 Frederic Jameson (1998).  “Postmodernism and Consumer Society.”  The Cultural Turn. Selected Writings on the Postmodern, 1983-1998. Verso, New York. Rem Koolhaas (1978).  "The Frontier in the Sky."  Delirious New York, A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.  New York:  The Monacelli Press. • Skyscraper as great metropolitan destabilizer • Architectural lobotomy • Generating two separate architectures (exterior and interior) • Reproduction of the world, annexation of the tower, and the island • What is Post-Modernism?                                                                                    WEEK 14:  Monumental Form                                                                December 8 Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter (1978).  "Crisis of the Object: Predicament of Texture."  Collage City.  Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978. • Two fundamental urban types:  ancient Greek temple and stoa • Object as figure and ground - the perception of figure requires the perception of ground • The task of the monument: to establish presence                                                                                     WEEK 15:  Final presentations                                                              December 15   • Term Project due