The Architectural Imagination

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• How to decipher, analyse, and comprehend various types of architectural depiction.
• The social and historical backgrounds of great architectural creations.
• The fundamentals of creating your own architectural drawings and models.
• Relevant information for academic studies or a career as an architect.

Syllabus:

1. Form and History

• The Architectural Imagination: An Introduction
• Reading Architecture: Column and Wall
• Hegel and Architectural History
• Aldo Rossi and Typology

2. The Technology Effect

• The Crystal Palace: Infrastructure and Detail
• The Dialectics of Glass and Steel
• Technology Tamed: Le Corbusier’s Machines for Living

3. Representation and Context

• Drawing Utopia: Visionary Architecture of the 18th Century
• The Pompidou Center in the City of Paris
• Presenting the Unrepresentable

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