Department
Architecture StudiesCourse Code
ARC132H1Professor
Zeynep CelikThis preview shows page 1. to view the full 4 pages of the document.
Contemporary Architecture:
Buildings, Landscapes, Cities, Architecture as Discourse
Discourse
1. Verbal interchange of ideas; especially conversation
2. Formal and orderly and usually extended expression of thought on a
subject
3. A mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience that is rooted in
language
ï‚· Premodern, modern, postmodern, late modern, contemporary
ï‚· Terms vary by field of study
ï‚· Sliding values
ï‚· History of the present
ï‚· Not a history of the past in terms of the present
ï‚· History of how things got to be how they are today
ï‚· History of how things did not have to be the way they are today
ï‚· History looks to the future as much as it does to the past
Histories of the Present: Architectural Education
ï‚· Design studio
ï‚· Large space
ï‚· Students work together
ï‚· Supervised
ï‚· Increasingly digitalized
 Process rituals – disciplinary techniques
ï‚· Desk-crit
ï‚· Interact one-on-one with your instructor
ï‚· Pin-up
ï‚· Presenting work informally
 Review (formally called ‗jury‘)
ï‚· Work presented to critics
École des Beaux-Arts (1793 – 1968)
ï‚· Preceeded by the royal academy in the 17th century
ï‚· Vitruvian ideals are practiced
ï‚· Lectures open to the public
ï‚· Theoretical knowledge rather than construction
ï‚· More closely aligned with the fine arts
ï‚· Offered lectures on math, history, etc
ï‚· Provided a museum of antique architecture
ï‚· Practiced the idea that artistic education started with copying old
examples
ï‚· Ateliers as workplaces
ï‚· Self-designed learning setup
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