History of Theory of Architecture 2

HISTORY OF THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 2. BMEEPET0408 The course presents, exposes and explains the most important constituent facts, selected from the innumerable different intellectual reflections of the twentieth century and the second millennium, as a rich and simultaneous interplay of parallel stories, either promoting, or opposing each other. It doesnrsquo;t interpret history as a homogeneously evolving story, emerging from the past, but at the same time, it doesnrsquo;t deny the importance and operative function of creating histories. Instead of a simple, successive presentation of well-known historical facts, or a collection of fashionable notions, topics and themes, it rather concentrates on exploring their synchronic functional relationships and finding creative and relevant conclusions. 1. Introduction, theory and history in the 20th century. 2. Dominant modern reflections: Riegl, Loos Corbusier 3. Science, technology, art, future, constituent parts of the modern identity Submission and discussion of first paper. 4. Great histories of modern architecture. History, or theory? 5. The destructions of modern technologies. Totalitarian regimes, and the war. Post war time, neo-technicism and total utopias of the sixties, Banham, Archigram. 6. Rediscovery of the operative function of history. Kahn, Venturi. Vulgar modernism and vulgar historicism. Submission and discussion of second paper. 7. The global, the regional, the rural, the archaic. Structuralism, accidentism. 8. Positive and negative side of modern urbanism. 9. Beyond modern histories. Critical theories anthologies. Presence and representation. Deconstruction, phenomenology, hermeneutics. Submission and discussion of third paper.

weekly

28 h / 14 weeks

2

Written examination

5

Budapest University of Technology and Economics

Faculty of Architecture

Department of History of Architecture and Monument Preservation