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IOSUD-SDA SDA-23 Inteligenta locului si conceptia arhitecturala in sec. XXI (2).pdf

Course Leader:

conf.dr.arh. Cosmin Caciuc

Learning outcomes:

In the last two decades, “place studies” have developed spectacularly in an inter- and transdisciplinary way. Seen as a convergent intellectual conversation on our lifeworld, inspired predominantly by phenomenology, they aim at place as the origin of thought, as the focal point of reflexivity and as the authentic horizon of architectural interpretation. Architecture is part of place or engaged in a life situation in the same sense that our very thinking is permanently “located”, saying that “life is taking place” always.
The title of this course starts from the formulation “The Intelligence of Place” under which the Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas grouped in 2015 a series of texts signed by intellectuals from several humanities and architecture disciplines. I have extended this idea of interpretation to a wider selection of texts, published in the last two decades, keeping the theme of the fundamental relationship between place and architecture or the condition of place for architecture. The essential objective of the lectures is therefore fixed, on the one hand, on the place understood as a catalyst of architectural thinking, and on the other, on the recent intellectual discourses capable of stimulating such openness.

Content:

This course involves in the spring semester the interpretation of essential texts (theoretical articles, book chapters or anthological fragments), carefully selected and grouped around the following themes: (1) Place, topophilia, the “art of care” and placemaking; (2) Public place, architecture and the city, topology and life between buildings; (3) Place, atmosphere and architectural morphology; (4) Place, local reflective practice and architectural morphology; (5) Place, community, topology and the ethics of architecture; (6) Place, site interpretation and contextual approach; (7) Place, experiential visualization and “linealogy”.
Among the authors of texts of wide international recognition are philosophers, architectural theorists and architects of reflective practice: Jeff Malpas, Edward Relph, Edward S. Casey, Bruce B. Jantz, Tim Ingold, Christian Norberg-Schulz, Kenneth Frampton, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Joseph Rykwert, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Juhani Pallasmaa, Robert McCarter, Peter Carl, Dalibor Vesely, Jacques Lucan, Steven Kent Peterson, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Vítor Oliveira, Gernot Böhme, David Leatherbarrow, Hendrik Auret, David Seamon, Herman Hertzberger, Jan Gehl, David Sim, Manuel de Solá-Morales, Vincent B. Canizaro, James A. LaGro, Mathew Carmona, Keith L. Eggener, Timothy Cassidy, Steven A. Moore, Yvonne Farrel & Shelley McNamara, Glenn Murcutt, etc.

Teaching Method:

Presentation and interrelational interpretation of selected texts. Defining an extensive “topography” of the theoretical thinking formulated in and among texts, by correlating and clarifying specific sources, references, and exemplifications. Identifying the concepts and the discourse constellation specific to the discussed text. Highlighting the “surplus” of meaning following interpretation, relevant to our profession. The course delves into the basics of phenomenological thinking in postwar architectural philosophy and theory.

Assessment:

The argumentation of a personal critical position on the topics discussed in the course, in a text of about 2000 words, based on appropriate bibliographic resources, different from those used in the lectures.

Bibliography:

Avermaete, Tom; Havik, Klaske & Teerds, Hans (coord.) 2009. Architectural Positions. Architecture, Modernity and the Public Sphere. Amsterdam: SUN Publishers.
Borch, Christian (coord.). 2014. Architectural Atmospheres. On the Experience and Politics of Architecture. Birkhäuser: Basel.
Britton, Karla Cavarra & McCarter, Robert (coord.). 2020. Modern Architecture and the Lifeworld. Essays in Honor of Kenneth Frampton. London: Thames & Hudson.
Canizaro, Vincent B. (coord.). 2007. Architectural Regionalism. Collected Writings on Place, identity, Modernity, and Tradition. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Carmona, Mathew. 2021. Public Places, Urban Spaces. The Dimensions of Urban Design (ed. a 3-a). New York & London: Routledge.
Carrera, Judit (coord.). 2010. In Favour of Public Space. Ten Years of the European Prize for Urban Public Space. Barcelona: CCCB & ACTAR.
Carrera, Judit (coord.). 2015. Lessons from European Prize for Urban Public Space, Barcelona & Zürich: CCCB & Lars Müller Publishers.
Frampton, Kenneth. 2010. Megaform as Urban Landscape, Chicago: University of Illinois School of Architecture.
Frampton, Kenneth. 2019. The Unfinished Modern Project at the End of Modernity. Tectonic Form and the Space of Public Appearance. London School of Economics, Sir John Soane's Museum London.
Gehl, Jan & Svarre, Brigitte. 2013. How to Study Public Life. Washington: Island Press.
Hes, Dominique & Hernandez-Santin, Cristina (coord.). 2020. Placemaking Fundamentals for the Built Environment. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan.
Ingold, Tim. 2007. Lines: a brief history. New York & London: Routledge.
Ingold, Tim. 2013. Making: anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. New York & London: Routledge.
Jacoby, Sam. 2016. Drawing Architecture and the Urban (2016) Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley.
Janz, Bruce B. (coord.). 2017. Place, Space and Hermeneutics. Cham: Springer.
LaGro, James A. 2013. Site Analysis. Informing Context-Sensitive and Sustainable Site Planning and Design (ed. a 3-a). Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley.
MacKay-Lyons, Brian & McCarter, Robert (coord.). 2015. Local Architecture. Building Place, Craft, And Community, New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
Mallgrave, Harry Francis. 2018. From Object to Experience. The New Culture of Architectural Design. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts.
Malpas, Jeff (coord.). 2015. The Intelligence of Place. Topographies and Poetics. London: Bloomsbury.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. 2000a. Architecture: Presence, Language, Place, Milano: Skira.
Norberg-Schulz, Christian. 2000b. Principles of Modern Architecture, London: Andreas Papadakis.
Oliveira, Vítor (coord). 2018. Teaching Urban Morphology, Cham, Switzerland: Springer.
Pallasmaa, Juhani & McCarter, Robert. 2012. Understanding Architecture. A Primer on Architecture as Experience.
Relph, Edward, Placeness, Place, Placelessness (www.placeness.com).
Rykwert, Joseph. 2002. The Seduction of Place, New York: Vintage Books.
Sim, David. 2019. Soft City, Building Density for Everyday Life, Washington: Island Press.
Steiner, Henriette & Sternberg, Maximilian (coord). 2015. Phenomenologies of the City. Studies in the History and Philosophy of Architecture. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate.
Sykes, Krista (coord.). 2010. Constructing a New Agenda. Architectural Theory 1993-2009. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.