The seminar is designed to provide non-architecture students with an understanding of contemporary critical writing in architecture.
Week by week, participants are required to produce written contributions that relate the course content to the experience of contemporary space by non-human subjects. These personal contributions will be presented at the end of the course in the form of a collective text. Each week, the course will include lectures that introduce different aspects of architecture. In the first part of each session, the instructor will comment on texts, images, and videos, highlighting key themes. In the second part, students will lead discussions based on the assigned readings and their written reflections.
Topics will include the origins and archetypes of architecture, the connection between architecture and other arts, the evolution of the concept of space from the modern to the contemporary era, the relationship between representation and identity, the construction of the city as an urban scene, and the dialogue between environmental art, Gesamtkunstwerk, and performance.
The seminar will be held in English, the standard language for the theory and practice of architecture in the social media and academia. This will help students to develop a critical understanding of architecture and articulate complex evaluations of the built environment.