BENVGA02 : Advanced Architectural Studies: Course coordinator Peg Rawes
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BENVGA02 : Advanced Architectural Studies: Course coordinator Peg Rawes
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HT0 : Architecture, modernity, and the city : Tilo Amhoff (59 items)Description The development of the industrial economy and society in the late 19th and early 20th century established specific social relations and relations of production. The way people lived, worked, and settled, the growth of the industrial city and its population presented a range of practical problems. The seminar looks at the historic challenges, dilemmas, and solutions of architects, engineers, planners, economists, and civil servants. After all it was not only the factory that was emblematic for the industrial society but also the city. Modernity as a global phenomenon of radical transformation will be the main theme of the investigation. We will be discussing questions regarding the process of modernisation, the experience of modernity, and ideas of modernism, focusing on their impact on architecture and the city. More specifically the seminar will address the relation between the metropolis and the interior; between theories of management and the practice of the avant-garde; between the planning of the metropolis and the colonising of the periphery. The seminar is set within the context of the history of modern architecture, the ambiguities and contradictions of modernity, and their economic and social analysis. It is based on the Marxist critique of architecture as the ideology of the plan, formulated by Manfredo Tafuri in his seminal Architecture and Utopia (1976) and the critique of modernism and modernity as developed by the various proponents of critical theory and related to architecture by Hilde Heynen in her seminal Architecture and Modernity (1999).
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Week 1 : The metropolis (10 items)
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Additional readings (3 items)
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Article2011-07-27T12:53:55+01:00
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Background Reading (6 items)
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Book | Also have copies of the 1983 edition2011-07-27T12:57:28+01:00
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Five faces of modernity: modernism, avant-garde, decadence, kitsch, postmodernism - , , 1987 082230726x,0822307677Book2011-07-27T12:58:11+01:00
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The challenge of modernity: German social and cultural studies, 1890-1960 - , 2002 0472109863,9780472109869Book2011-07-27T12:58:56+01:00
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The Werkbund: design theory and mass culture before the First World War - , 1996 0300068492,0300068980Book2011-07-27T12:59:06+01:00
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Week 2 : The interior (10 items)
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Primary reading (1 item)
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Additional readings (3 items)
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Article2011-07-27T12:59:58+01:00
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Chapter | Digitised reading2011-06-07T11:40:54+01:00
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Background Reading (6 items)
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Book | Introduction2011-07-27T13:00:57+01:00
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Book2011-07-27T13:02:25+01:00
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Week 3 : The factory system (10 items)
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Primary Reading (1 item)
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Article2011-07-27T13:04:26+01:00
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Additional readings (3 items)
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Article2011-07-27T13:04:44+01:00
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Background Reading (6 items)
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Book2011-07-27T13:08:19+01:00
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From autos to architecture: Fordism and architectural aesthetics in the twentieth century - , c2009 1568988133,9781568988139Book2011-07-27T13:08:27+01:00
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The Taylorized beauty of the mechanical: scientific management and the rise of modernist architecture - , c2006 0691115206,9780691115207Book2011-07-27T13:08:40+01:00
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Chapter2011-07-27T13:09:19+01:00
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Article2011-07-27T13:09:31+01:00
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Management and ideology: the legacy of the international scientific management movement - , 1980 0520037375Book2011-07-27T13:09:44+01:00
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Week 4 : The avant-garde (12 items)
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Additional Readings (3 items)
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Article2011-07-27T13:10:40+01:00
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Article2011-07-27T13:10:52+01:00
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Article2011-07-27T13:11:03+01:00
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Background Reading (8 items)
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The project of autonomy: politics and architecture within and against capitalism - , , c2008 1568987943,9781568987941Book2011-07-27T13:11:51+01:00
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Article | Not held in UCL Library : Available at Oxford2011-07-27T13:13:13+01:00
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A translation of the Italian is available from UCL - see below
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Week 5 : Planning the metropolis (9 items)
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Article | Recommended | Digitised reading2011-05-31T15:50:27+01:00
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Additional readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Digitised reading2011-06-07T11:26:03+01:00
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Bakground Reading (6 items)
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Chapter | Recommended | Available via British Library or Senate House2011-09-01T15:33:52+01:00
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A translation of the Italian is available from UCL - see below
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The sphere and the labyrinth: avant-gardes and architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s - , c1987 0262200619Book | Recommended2011-09-01T15:40:11+01:00
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Week 6 : Colonising the periphery (8 items)
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Primary reading (3 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-06-07T14:53:10+01:00
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Additional readings (2 items)
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Bakground Reading (5 items)
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Book | Recommended2011-09-01T15:48:20+01:00
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Book | Recommended2011-09-01T15:51:29+01:00
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Colonial modernities: building, dwelling and architecture in British India and Ceylon - , , 2007 0415399084,0415399092,9780415399098,9780415399081Book | Recommended2011-09-01T15:53:01+01:00
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Book | Recommended2011-09-01T15:54:32+01:00
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HT2 : U-topographics: Utopic Journeys into Postmodern Culture : Robin Wilson (17 items)Description The central project of this seminar group is to trace and understand the role of utopian expression in contemporary culture. Our investigation into the utopian will have less to do with the traditional sphere of utopian thinking and notions of perfect cities of the future, than it will with the formation of an investigative method for the critique of our current postmodern condition and its diverse forms of cultural production. Our studies will encompass photography, film, cartography, landscape and urban space. Our theoretical methods will include the postmodern Marxist criticism and literary theory of Fredric Jameson, the post structural philosophy of Louis Marin and the contemporary ethnography of Marc Augé. From photography of the Norfolk broads in the 19th century to French landscape design for motorway service stations in the 1980s this seminar programme will trace how the study of utopia, the narratives of elsewhere and spaces of difference, can also provide a critical tool for understanding the representations of our home world. We will seek to decipher the u-topographics of our contemporary culture: the spaces of our historical reality re written as the no-places of collective fantasy.
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Week 1 : Post-Modern Utopian Theory (3 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-06-02T15:51:50+01:00
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Additional readings (1 item)
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Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading2011-05-31T10:53:25+01:00
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Week 3 : Strategies of Utopic Narrative (1 item)
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Chapter | Digitised reading2011-06-02T16:09:31+01:00
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Week 4 : Utopic Landscapes: Arcadian and Scientific (1 item)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-06-07T10:53:14+01:00
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Week 5 : Utopics of the City Map (4 items)
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Primary Readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised Reading2011-06-07T10:59:51+01:00
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Additional Readings (2 items)
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Exploring 'an area of outstanding unnatural beauty': a treasure hunt around King's Cross, London - , , , , , 2005-10-01Article | Essential2011-09-07T15:14:09+01:00
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Week 6 : Utopics of Urban Space (8 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Additional readings (6 items)
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Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading2011-05-27T18:04:18+01:00
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Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading2011-05-31T15:22:46+01:00
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HT3 : Dimensions of Sustainable Design: Ecology, Economy, and Culture : Ann Thorpe (21 items)
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Week 4 : Well Being—exploring what we want to sustain in terms of being, doing and interacting (12 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Seminar 5: week of Nov 8 (Week 11) (1 item)What is the Economy? How does it work for and against sustainability?
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Case Studies (5 items)
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Few assurances made on UAE worker rights - , 23 April 2008Webpage | Essential2011-09-07T16:17:38+01:00
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Seminar 6: week of Nov 15 (Week 12) (2 items)Alternative economic organization and practice
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Chapter | Essential2011-09-07T15:42:49+01:00
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Case Studies (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential2011-09-08T10:41:29+01:00
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HT4 : The Fabric of Architecture : Ana Araujo (10 items)Hanging carpets remained the true walls; they were the visible boundaries of space. The solid walls behind them were necessary for reasons that had nothing to do with the creation of space; they were needed for security, for supporting a load, for permanence and so on … Whenever the need for these secondary functions did not arise, carpets remained the original means of separating space. Even where building solid walls became necessary, the later were only the inner, invisible structure hidden behind the true and legitimate representatives of the wall, the colourful woven carpets.” n the above statement, articulated in 1851, the German architect Gottfried Semper proposes that a deep-rooted bond unites the practice of architecture with the making of textiles. To connect the making of space to the making of cloth was, in Semper’s time, a contentious endeavour. First, it implied that architecture belonged to the domain of the applied arts, rather than, as established by tradition, to the realm of the visual arts. Second, it linked architecture to a type of labour predominantly performed by women, countering its customary understanding as a male-dominated industry. Third, it connected architecture to practices considered at the time to be frivolous and superficial, such as fashion and interior decoration. Even though we are many decades away from Semper’s time, some of the contentious connotations of his theory still reverberate today. The aim of this seminar is to investigate resonances Semper’s thinking might have in today’s design theory and practice. The connection he proposed between architecture and textiles sets out a cross-disciplinary platform that embraces disciplines such as archaeology, anthropology, fashion, psychoanalysis and the scenic arts. In the course of six seminars we will venture into these different interdisciplinary territories in search of critical and productive tools that may reshape the way we think and make architecture.
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Week 3 : Drapery (3 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Additional reading (1 item)
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Week 4 : Ritual (1 item)
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Primary readings (1 item)
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Week 5 : Craft (6 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-06-01T12:17:09+01:00
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Additional reading (1 item)
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Week 6 : Language (2 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-06-07T12:10:15+01:00
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Additional reading (1 item)
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HT5 : How Change Happens or The Secret Life of Regeneration : Daisy Froud (12 items)Human beings have always changed their environment. Only recently however has the term ‘regeneration’ come to describe a major part of that activity, covering everything from the construction of ‘luxury loft apartments’ to the masterplanning of regions. The term is inherently positive, loaded with connotations of rebirth and growth. But what does it mean in practice? Especially when the money is running out. This course will take apart ‘regeneration’, as idea and activity. We will look at how different modes of representation, methodologies, scales of activity, value-systems and, last but not least, ‘stakeholders’ (to use the language of the sector) contribute, both wittingly and unwittingly, to the evolution of urban areas, through channels both official and unofficial. Many stories can be told around the same site. So an important element of the seminars will be the analysis of primary sources relating to case-studies, current and historical, interrogating the ways in which particular forces and factors, some more overt than others, interplay to influence the nature of change. The six seminars are grouped in pairs. Over the first fortnight, we will address the ways in which visions of places and futures form, and how the need for change is articulated or challenged through both verbal and graphic language. We will then investigate how decisions are taken about the nature of change required, contrasting the statutory control of the planning system with more experimental community engagement practices, and considering the intents behind these. Finally, we will look at how physical change actually manifests itself in the buildings and spaces around us, in ways both subtle and overt, and at times with unintended consequences. Seminars
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Week 1 : Representing Change: Maps, Models and Minds (2 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitsed reading2011-05-31T19:00:43+01:00
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Week 2 : Telling stories about Change (2 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-05-31T17:22:41+01:00
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Week 3 : Planning for Change (2 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-05-31T18:28:11+01:00
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Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-05-31T17:57:39+01:00
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Week 4 : Changing Together (2 items)
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Primary readings (2 items)
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Some of the below will be primary reading and some secondary, tbc
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Week 5 : Big change (2 items)
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From a society of fear to a society of respect : the transformation of Hackney's Holly Street estate - ,Chapter | Essential | Digitised reading2011-05-31T19:05:38+01:00
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Article | Essential2011-09-08T10:09:30+01:00
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Week 6 : Small Change (2 items)
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Article | Essential2011-09-08T10:12:12+01:00
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Additional reading (not on previous online list, but required for 2011 - 2012) (5 items)
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Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading2011-05-31T12:28:43+01:00
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Chapter | Recommended | Digitised reading2011-05-31T15:12:52+01:00
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