Course Name | Historical Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Art |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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FFD 653 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | Third Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This graduate seminar provides a critical review of the impact on the urban scene in the 1920s and 1930s of radically innovative movements in the arts, especially but not only in architecture, associated at the time and subsequently with the avant-garde. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | The course discusses major avant-garde movements in the history of art and architecture, the invention of new art techniques that have altered perceptions of reality, the influences of the reduction of art to a “black square,” utopian city designs, and the idea of “anti-art.” |
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Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction to the Course Themes | |
2 | What is Avant-Garde | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
3 | Avant-Garde Art | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
4 | Modernism and Modernity | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
5 | Avant-Garde in Architecture | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
6 | New Discoveries in Representation: Avant-Garde Art | Submission of term paper outline and annotated bibliography |
7 | Manifesto and Avant-Garde | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
8 | Presentation | Presentation |
9 | Today's Avant-Garde: Architecture | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
10 | Today's Avant-Garde: Architecture | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
11 | Today's Avant-Garde: Art | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
12 | Today's Avant-Garde: Art | Doing the reading and filling out the related worksheet |
13 | Presentation and discussion of term paper | Presentation of 10-page term papers |
14 | Presentation and discussion of term paper | Presentation of 10-page term papers |
15 | Presentation and discussion of term paper | Presentation of 10-page term papers |
16 | Overall Evaluation / Term Paper Submission | No preparation |
Course Notes/Textbooks | None |
Suggested Readings/Materials | Richard Sennett, Flesh and Stone: The Body and the City in Western Civilization, New York, London: W.W. Norton&Company, 1994; Christian Norberg-Schulz, Principles of Modern Architecture, London: Andreas Papadakis Publisher, 2000; Marshal Berman, All That is Solid Melts into Air, The Experience of Modernity, London, New York, Penguin Books, 1988; Edward Timms and David Kelley (eds.) Unreal City: Urban Experience in Modern European Literature and Art, Manchester University Press, 1985; James Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasilia, Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1989; Hilde Heynen, Architecture and Modernity, a Critique, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 2000; Theda Shapiro, Painters and Politics: The European Avant-Garde and Society, 1900-1925, New York: Elsevier, 1976; Anthony Vidler, Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture, Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001; Vikramaditya Prakash, Chandigarh's Le Corbusier: The Struggle for Modernity in Postcolonial India, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2002; Anthony D. King. Spaces of Global Cultures: Architecture, Urbanism, Identity, New York: Routledge, 2004. |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 16 | 10 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 2 | 20 |
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 |
Project | 1 | 50 |
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | ||
Final Exam | ||
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 20 | 100 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 5 | 70 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 2 | 10 | |
Presentation / Jury | 1 | 20 | |
Project | 1 | 50 | |
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | |||
Final Exams | |||
Total | 208 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | to be able to develop scientific expertise and capabilities in the field of design studies by using creative and critical thinking as well as research skills; innovatively contributing to the discipline through new ideas, | |||||
2 | to be able to comprehend the interaction across various disciplines related to the field of design reaching at original conclusions via using new and complex analysis, synthesis and evaluation skills, | |||||
3 | to be able to develop new strategic approaches to solve unforeseen complex issues in design practice through integrative and creative elaboration, | |||||
4 | to be able to conduct independent research, analyze scientific phenomena through a broad, deep and critical perspective, arrive at new syntheses and evaluations in design discipline, | |||||
5 | to be able to publish scientific articles in reputable refereed journals, present papers in scientific conferences in the field of design and its sub-disciplines, | |||||
6 | to be able to develop effective communication skills to scientifically present and defend original ideas to an expert audience, | |||||
7 | to be able to conduct affective team work in the field of design, | |||||
8 | to be able to use the English language fluently for both comprehending scientific publications and developing proper communication with foreign colleagues, | |||||
9 | to be able to contribute to the process of transforming into an " information society", by following the technological, social and cultural developments on both academic and professional grounds continuously, | |||||
10 | to be able to develop skills of designing and producing unique models and products that will be certificated as registered design, trade mark and patents. |
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