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 702-305 Theories of Architecture

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Ms Sandra Kaji-O'Grady

Semester

1 (view timetable)

Contact

Four hours of lectures and seminars a week

Subject Description

This subject offers an introduction to critical and speculative thinking on architecture in the broader context of philosophical schools of thought and social and cultural conditions. Disciplinary terminology, interpretive methods, significant figures and arguments, and the relationship between theory and practise are considered. Contemporary topical issues and new speculative thinking are introduced in a series of lectures and seminars. Issues of power, identity, visuality and technology are studied through cross-cultural comparison and canonic projects.

Assessment

Assignments (e.g. exercises, essays, and class presentations) equivalent to not more than 5000 words.

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