Course Schedule and Catalog
Course Schedule - Fall Semester 2004
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ARCH 425 001 (CRN: 21927)
THEORY AND MODERNISM
Long Title:
Department: Architecture
Instructor: Biln, John
Meeting: 9:00AM - 12:00PM W (23-AUG-2004 - 15-DEC-2004)
Part of Term: Full Term
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Method of Instruction: Face to Face
Credit Hours: 3
Course Syllabus:
Section Max Enrollment: 15
Section Enrolled: 0
Enrollment data as of: 16-MAY-2024 2:37AM
Description: THEORY AND MODERNISM: UNDER THE SKIN
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This course operates as a forum for thinking broadly about the cultural modernity and architectural modernism. This semester, the course will consider a deeply persistent, greatly underestimated, and increasingly important cultural figure: the building that lives. We will study some of the most important formulations of this trope from antiquity to postmodernity, from figures such as the flying temples and walking statues of antiquity to contemporary problems of posthuman existence and 'animate' materials in architecture. We will see that the living building inhabits a 'monstrous' -errain where the limits of three central fabrications of culture--humanity, technology, and nature--are mutually transgressed.
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Enrollment limited to 15.
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Instructor(s): Biln