ARCH 551 | Course Introduction and Application Information - M.SC. In Architecture (With Thesis)

Course Name

Reading Buildings, Building Texts

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
ARCH 551	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	7.5

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	Second Cycle
Mode of Delivery	-
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	-
National Occupation Classification	-
Course Coordinator	-
Course Lecturer(s)	-
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives

To acquaint students with the relation between architecture and literature and to provide different ways of reading buildings and looking at the pivotal texts of Western culture from an architectural point of view.

Learning Outcomes

The students who succeeded in this course;

The student will be able to explain some fundamental concepts of Western literature and art such as ut pictura poesis, paragone, ekphrasis in relation with architecture.
The student will be able to know about the origin of the rhetorical space and its effects on both Medieval architecture and the concept of architecture parlante.
The student will be able to comprehend the literary sources of some visual concepts of architecture like Picturesque and Sublime.
The student will be able to analyze the roots or fruits of pivotal concepts of 20th century architecture in literature.
The student will be able to interpret the concepts originated in literary theory and used in current "theory debates" in architecture.

Course Description

This course focuses on the acts of reading and writing in the architectural context. This involves both the reading of threedimensional architectural expressions and the analysis of narratives of the built environment. The course centres on the pivotal concepts of the relation between architecture and literature which developed during the Middle Ages, elaborated in the age of Enlightenment and Romanticism, and embellished in the course of the twentieth century.

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses	X
	Supportive Courses
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation	Learning Outcome
1	Introduction
2	Ut Pictura Poesis and Paragone	Horace. “Ars Poetica (extracts).” In Horace for Students of Literature. pp. 722. Michelangelo. “Da Scultori.” Madrigal. Wystan Hugh Auden. Musée des Beaux Arts. William Carlos Williams. Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. William Shakespeare. “Sonnet 55.” In William Shakespeare: The Poems, p. 247.
3	Ekphrasis and Ekphrastic Architecture	Plato. “Phaedrus (extracts).” In Collected Dialogues. Homer. “Iliad (extracts).” In Iliad of Homer. Virgil. The Aeneid (extracts). John Keats. Ode on a Grecian Urn. Henrik Ibsen. The Lady From the Sea (extracts). “Gilgamesh (extracts)” In Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others.
4	Rhetorical Space in the Middle Ages	Leo of Ostia. “The Chronicle of Montecassino.” In A Documentary History of Art, pp.918. Abbot Suger. “The Book of Suger, Abbot of St Dennis.” In Architectural Theory V. 1, pp. 2223 William Durandus. “The Symbolism of Churches and Church Ornaments.” In Architectural Theory V. 1, pp. 2324.
5	Architecture Parlante (Speaking Architecture)	Francis Bacon. “Of Building.” In The Essays, pp. 19396. Emil Kaufmann. Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu (extracts). John Ruskin. “Preface (extracts).” In The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Anthony Vidler, “The Idea of Type: The Transformation of the Academic Ideal, 17501830.” In Oppositions, pp. 43959.
6	Ars Memorativa (The Art of Memory)	Cicero, Ad Herennium (extracts). Cicero, De Oratore (extracts). Yates, A. F. The Art of Memory (extracts).
7	Travelogue and Textual City	Pierre Gilles. The Antiquities of Constantinople. Hugh Ferriss. “The Metropolis of Tomorrow.” In Architectural Theory V. 2, pp. 15556. Archigram. “Manifesto.” In Architectural Theory V.2, p. 356. Bernard Tschumi. “Programmatic Account.” In Manhattan Transcripts, pp. 812.
8	Fictive Places and Utopias	Dante Alighieri. Divine Comedy (extracts). Thomas Moore. Utopia (extracts). Italo Calvino. Invisible Cities (extracts). Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed (extracts). Michel Foucault. “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias.” In Rethinking Architecture, pp.35056.
9	Picturesque and the Sublime	Longinus “On the Sublime.” In Aristotle, the Poetics; ‘Longinus’, pp. 121254. Francis Bacon. “Of Gardens.” In The Essays, pp. 197202. William Temple. “Upon the Gardens of Epicurus, or, of Gardening in the year 1685.” In Architectural Theory V. 1, p. 229. Edmund Burke. “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful (extracts).” In Architectural Theory V. 1, pp. 27383.
10	Time and Beyond	H. G. Wells. The Time Machine (extracts). Guillaume Apollinaire. Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (19131916), pp. 6061. Paul Virilio. “The State of Emergency.” In The Virilio Reader, pp. 4657.
11	Power and Control	Gilles Deleuze. “Postscript on Control Societies.” In Architecture Theory, pp. 24852. Michel Foucault. “Panopticism (extracts).” In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 35667. . Discipline and Punish (extracts). George Orwell. Nineteen Eightyfour (Extracts).
12	Textual Dwelling	Martin Heidegger. “Building, Dwelling, Thinking (extracts).” In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 100124. Gaston Bachelard. The Poetics of Space (extracts). Peter Hedges. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape (extracts).
13	Signs and Symbolic Architecture	Ferdinand de Saussure. Course in General Linguistics (extracts). Roland Barthes. “The Eiffel Tower. “In The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, pp. 318. Georges Bataille. “The Obelisk.” In Architecture Theory, pp. 1725.
14	and its Deconstruction	Jacques Derrida. “Letter to Peter Eisenman,” In Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture, pp. 2028. . “Architecture Where the Desire May Live.” In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 31923. . “Point De Folie – Maintenant L’architecture.“ In Rethinking Architecture, pp. 32436. Daniel Libeskind. “Symbol and Interpretation.” In Architectural Theory V. 2, pp. 46465.
15	Presentations
16	Review

Course Notes/Textbooks

Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes: Poems of Peace and War (19131916). Trans. Anne Hyde Greet. Los Anleles, London: University of California Press, 2004. Bacon, Francis. The Essays. Ed. With an introduction by John Pitcher. London; New York, etc: Penguin, 1985. Ballantyne, Andrew, ed. Architecture Theory: A Reader in Philosophy and Culture. London; New York: Continuum, 2005. Barthes, Roland. “The Eiffel Tower. “In The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies. Trans. Richard Howard, pp. 318. Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1997. Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities (extracts). Trans. William Weaver. San Diego; New York; London: Harcourt, 1974. Cicero, M. T. De Oratore. Trans. E.W. Sutton and H. Rackham. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1942. Cicero, M. T. Rhetorica Ad Herennium: De Ratione Dicendi. Trans. H, Caplan, ed. G. P. Goold. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1954. Derrida, Jacques. “Letter to Peter Eisenman,” In Critical Architecture and Contemporary Culture. Trans. Hillary P. Hanel, pp. 2028. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Trans. Alan Sheridan. London: Penguin, 1977. “Gilgamesh” In Myths From Mesopotamia: Creation, The Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others. Trans. Stephanie Dalley. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Gilles, Pierre. The Antiquities of Constantinople. Trans. John Ball. New York: Italica Press, 1988. Hays, Michael, ed. Oppositions. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998. Hedges, Peter. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. New York; London, etc: Washington Square Press, 1991. Homer. “Iliad.” In The Iliad of Homer. Trans. Richard Lattimore. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 1951, 1961. Horace. “Ars Poetica.” In Horace for Students of Literature: The “Ars Poetica” and Its Tradition. Trans. Leon Golden, pp. 722. Florida: Alfred A Knopf, 1995. Kaufmann, Emil. “Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu,” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 42 (October 1952): 53858. Leach, Neil, ed. Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory. London; New York: Routledge, 1997. Ursula K. Le Guin. The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia. New York: Harper Collins, 1974. Leo of Ostia. “The Chronicle of Montecassino.” In A Documentary History of Art: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Vol. 1. Trans. Herbert Bloch Ed. Elizabeth Gilmore Holt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1957. 918. Longinus “On the Sublime.” In Aristotle, the Poetics; ‘Longinus’, On the Sublime; Demetrius, On Style. Trans. W. Hamilton Fyfe. Ed. G. P. Goold. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press; London: William Heineman, 1982. 121254. Mallgrave, Harry Francis and Christina Contandriopoulos. Architectural Theory: An Anthology From 1871 to 2005. V 1. Malden; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2008. Mallgrave, Harry Francis and Christina Contandriopoulos. Architectural Theory: An Anthology From 1871 to 2005. V 1. Malden; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2008. Orwell, George. Nineteen Eightyfour. New York; London, etc: Penguin, 2003. Plato. “Phaedrus.” In Collected Dialogues. Ed. Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns, 475525. Princeton, NJ: Prinston University Press, 1961. Ruskin, John. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. Introduction by Sir Arnold Lunn. London: Dent, 1907; New York: Dutton, 1969. Shakespeare, William. “Sonnet 55.” In William Shakespeare: The Poems. Ed. David Bevington, 247. Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, 1988. Saussure, Ferdinand. Course in General Linguistics. Ed. Charles Bally ve Albert Sechehaye, trans. Wade Baskin. New York; Toronto; London: Mc Graw Hill, 1966. Tschumi, Bernard. Manhattan Transcripts: Theoretical Projects. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1981. Virgil. The Aeneid. Trans. W. F. Jackson Knight. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,1956. Virilio, Paul. The Virilio Reader. Ed. James der Derian. Malden, Mass; Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1998. Wells, H. G. The Time Machine. New York; London, etc: Penguin, 2002. Yates, A. F. The Art of Memory. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 1966.

Suggested Readings/Materials

None

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury	1	30
Project	1	40
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
Final Exam	1	30
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade		70
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade		30
Total

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class	15	7	105
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments			0
Presentation / Jury	1	20	20
Project	1	40	40
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms			0
Final Exam	1	12	12
		Total	225

#	PC Sub	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	PC Sub	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to advance specialized architectural knowledge based on qualifications acquired at the undergraduate level.		-	-	-	-	X
2	To be able to conceive the interdisciplinary nature of the architectural field and apply such knowledge and analytical capacity to interdisciplinary studies.		-	-	-	-	X
3	To be able to apply specialized knowledge in architecture in theoretical or practical work.		-	-	-	X	-
4	To be able to produce new knowledge by integrating architectural knowledge with knowledge in other disciplines.		-	-	-	-	X
5	To be able to diagnose and evaluate a specific problem in architecture and to relate this ability to publishing or practice.		-	-	-	X	-
6	To be able critically evaluate knowledge peculiar to the architectural field, facilitate self-directed learning and produce advanced work independently.		-	-	-	-	X
7	To be able to communicate contemporary developments in architecture and one’s own work in professional and interdisciplinary environments in written, oral or visual forms.		-	-	-	-	X
8	To be able to consider, control and communicate social, scientific and ethical values in the accumulation, interpretation, publication and/or application of architectural data.		-	-	X	-	-
9	To be able to critically analyze the norms that inform spatial relationships and their social implications and to develop original thesis according to guidelines.		-	-	-	-	X
10	To be able to keep up with developing knowledge in Architecture and participate in academic and professional discussions using at least one foreign language.		-	-	-	-	X

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