ARTH 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Richard Sennett, Building Society, Social Theory
Document Summary
Old architecture faculty was telling for a long time of what an architecture school consists of and should consist of. Architecture faculty a product of the welfare state. Teaching architecure and positions within a professional and disciplinary field. Instruments (how?) are always related to the objectives (why?) The position of an architectural education reflects the context and the history of the institution. Netherlands: history of collective planning (defence against the water, early nation state, strong ethic of public adiministration, collective planning systems as part of post 1945 reconstruction effort. Tu delft: set up as a polytechnic university, with an emphasis on technological and applied/applicable research and education in constrast to beaux-arts tradition, or humanities centred universities controversies (never resolved ) Technical education: architecture as a problem-solving discipline. Building society: architecture as a vehicle for social engineering. Democratistion and its consequences: architecure as a discipline and a field of knowledge social theory and spaces.
