Session 1 Introduction
1. scholarship as an ideal and as vocation
2. principles and values of research
3. opportunities for dissemination
4. introduction to library and online research resources; overview of citation
conventions
Reading:
Umberto Eco, How to Write a Thesis, ch.1 “The Definition and Purpose of the Thesis”
Session 2 Architectural Theory – Formalism
Readings:
Anthony Vidler, Histories of the Immediate Present, ch. 1 “Neoclassical Modernism: Emil
Kaufmann”
Rudolph Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism, part 3 “Principles of
Palladio’s Architecture”
Peter Eisenman, Form in Relation to Architecture, ch. 1 “The Formal Basis of Modern
Architecture”
Session 3 Architectural Theory – Practice
Henry-Russell Hitchcock, “The Architecture of Bureaucracy and the Architecture of
Genius”
Michael Kubo, “The Concept of the Architectural Corporation”
Reinhold Martin, The Organizational Complex: Architecture, Media, and Corporate Space
Session 4 Architectural Theory – Critical Theory
Michael Hays, Architecture’s Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde
Session 5 Computational Design
Mario Carpo, The Second Digital Turn: Design Beyond Intelligence
Greg Lynn, Archeology of the Digital
Session 6 Landscape and Territory
Stan Allen and Marc McQuade, Landform Building: Architecture’s New Terrain
James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Help the Human Condition
Have Failed
Session 7 Architecture as Art
Hal Foster, The Art Architecture Complex
Eve Blau and Nancy Troy, Architecture and Cubism
Session 8 Architectural Technology as History of Science
Antoine Picon, French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment
Guy Nordenson, Seven Structural Engineers: The Felix Candela Lectures
Herbert A. Simon, “The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial,” in The Sciences of the
Artificial, Innovative Surface Structures: Technologies and Applications
Session 9 Urbanism as History and Practice
Eric Mumford, The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, 1928–1960
Session 10 Architecture as a Social Science
Melvin Webber, The Urban Place and the Nonplace Urban Realm
James Holston, The Modernist City: An Anthropological Critique of Brasília
Anne Forsyth and K Crewe, “Research in Environmental Design: Definitions and Limits,”
Journal of Architectural and Planning Research 23: 2.
Session 11 Media and Architecture
Beatriz Colomina, Privacy and Publicity: Modern Architecture as Mass Media
Session 12 Landscape Ecology
Ian McHarg, Design with Nature
Mohsen Mostafavi and Gareth Doherty, Ecological Urbanism
Richard T.T. Forman, Urban Ecology: Science of Cities
Session 13 Archives and Exhibitions
Barry Bergdoll, Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750