GSD Course Bulletin - Spring 2012 - ADV-09690
COURSE DETAILS
09690: Discourse and Methods (ADV 0969000)
Architecture
Landscape Architecture
Urban Planning and Design
Seminar - 4 credits
Monday 9:00 - 12:00 42 Kirkland 1A
Instructor(s)
Timothy Hyde
Course Description
The seminar is designed as an introduction to the methodologies and disciplines that have shaped the field of architectural history and theory. We will probe critical perspectives on architecture's relation to aesthetics, society, and the environment as well as examine the enduring historical and epistemological significance of these perspectives. Topics include: autonomy, formalism, history to new historicism, phenomenology, semiotics, gender and psychoanalysis, ecology, the metropolis, the culture wars, technology and science.
Intended for PhD candidates.
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