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WINTER 2013 COURSE OUTLINE HONOURS BACHELOR OF ARTS IN ARCHITECTURAL STUDIES PROGRAM

COURSE CODE: COURSE NAME: CLASS HOURS: PROFESSOR NAME: PROFESSOR EMAIL: OFFICE HOURS:

ARC132H1S Contemporary Architecture Thursdays, 9-11am, Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles St. W Zeynep elik zeynep.celik@utoronto.ca Thursdays, 11am-noon, Isabel Bader Theatre Lobby Wednesdays, noon-2pm, 230 College Street, Room 218 TAs will announce their office hours individually (Please sign up IN PERSON or WITH THE HEAD TA; do not send e-mail requests for appointments) Teaching Assistants: (You will be assigned a TA; please contact that particular TA regarding any questions) Francesca Joyce (Head TA) francesca.joyce@mail.utoronto.ca Clarence Lacy (Marking TA) clarence.lacy@mail.utoronto.ca Nora Barbu nora.barbu@mail.utoronto.ca Matthew Blunderfield m.blunderfield@utoronto.ca Venessa Heddle venessa.heddle@mail.utoronto.ca Roya Mottahedeh roya.mottahedeh@mail.utoronto.ca Kevin Murray kje.murray@mail.utoronto.ca Elliott Sturtevant elliott.sturtevant@mail.utoronto.ca Rebecca Taylor rebecca.taylor@mail.utoronto.ca Caitlin Tobiasz c.tobiasz@utoronto.ca COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is an introduction to the contemporary discipline of architecture. The course is organized into three modules. The first module, Histories of the Present, traces the history of architectural discourses from the Enlightenment to the present. The second module, Architecture as Space, focuses on particular themes and investigates the history of these themes through examples of contemporary architecture. The final module, Architecture as Utopia, examines the contemporary relevance of modern architectures historical aspiration to change society. The goal is as much to raise questions about architectural debates as to answer them. COURSE OBJECTIVES: 1. to introduce the profession, discipline, and culture of architecture 2. to familiarize students with some critical issues in contemporary architectural discourses 3. to present the history of architectural modernism as continuous from the Enlightenment to the present 4. to develop critical thinking and writing skills

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SCHEDULE: Week Dates 1 Jan. 7-11

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16

Jan. 14-18 Jan 21-25 Jan. 28-Feb. 1 Feb. 4-8 Feb. 11-15 Feb. 18-22 Feb 25-29 Mar 4-8 Mar. 11-15 Mar. 18-22 Mar 25-29 Apr. 1-5 Apr. 8-12 Apr. 15-19 Apr 22-26 Apr. 29-May 3

Details Monday, January 7th, 2013 Classes begin in S and resume in Y section code courses Friday, January 11, 2013 Final date to file a petition regarding a final exam in 2012 fall session, F courses Sunday, January 13th, 2013 Waiting lists for S section code courses turned off Sunday, January 20th, 2013 Last day to add or make changes to S section code courses; S course load count date for program/per-course fee determination

Monday, February 18th, 2013 Family Day; University Closed; Last day to cancel Y section code courses February 19th 22nd Reading Week Sunday, March 10th, 2013 Last day to cancel S section code courses

Friday, March 29, 2013 Good Friday; University Closed Friday, April 5th, 2013 Classes end; term work in S and Y section code courses must be submitted unless an earlier date has been stipulated Monday, April 8th and Tuesday, April 9th, 2013 Study Break Wednesday, April 10th, 2013 Examination period begins Examination period Examination period Tuesday April 30th, 2013 Examination period ends Tuesday, May 7th last day to file a petition regarding final exams for 2012-2013 Y/S section code courses

WEEKLY SCHEDULE: Module Jan. 10: Histories of the Present I: Jan. 17: Histories of the Present II: Jan. 24: Histories of the Present III: Jan. 31: Guest Lecturer: Feb. 7: Architecture as Space I: Feb. 14: Architecture as Space II: Feb. 21: No ClassReading Week Feb. 28: Architecture as Space III: Mar. 7: Architecture as Space IV: Mar. 14: Guest Lecturer: Mar. 21: Architecture as Utopia I: Mar. 28: Architecture as Utopia II: Apr. 4: Architecture as Utopia III:

Topic Architectural Education Metropolis and Architecture Media and Architecture Architecture and Technology I Transparency Ornament Architecture and Technology II

Requirement

Exam 1

Exam 2 Housing Public Conclusion Course journals due

EVALUATION: Exam 1 20% Jan. 31 Exam 2 30% Mar. 14 Course journal 15% Due Mar. 28 (See below for details) Final exam 35% Date TBA All exams will be cumulative. Evaluation will be carried out in accordance with the University Assessment and Grading Practices Policy. The Daniels Faculty follows the University of Toronto Undergraduate grading scale. Please refer to the policy found at: http://www.governingcouncil.utoronto.ca/Governing_Council/policies/policies/uniassgpp.htm

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COURSE JOURNAL: Assigned: Thursday, January 10, 2013 Due: Thursday, March 28, 2012 (Due at the end of class, including sketches/notes for that day) You are required to keep a course journal in this class. Purchase a notebook not larger than 8 by 5 inches. The notebook should be plain (not squared or ruled) so that you have the freedom to make sketches. The notebook should have no more than 200-250 pages. Do not choose a notebook that is very large, thick, or heavy. There is no need for a notebook with an elaborate design. Keep in mind that each TA will have to collect and mark over 50 of these notebooks at the end of the semester. You will use this journal to make sketches and take notes before, during, and after class. This is a project that you will be working on throughout the term; do not count on creating a journal just before the due date. When we collect your course journals, we expect to see the following in them and will mark them accordingly: 1. Your lecture notes. It should be evident that you attended the lectures and that your notes were taken primarily during class. We want to see notes from at least 9 lectures at the end of the semester. 2. Evidence of your engagement with the visual material presented in the lectures: sketches, diagrams, and, if you prefer, print-outs of images from the lectures collaged into your journal. Please note that you will not be marked on the basis of your draftsmanship. Whether or not you draw well does not matter at all. What counts more is your commitment to the course, your attentiveness to the visual material presented in the lectures and your ability to synthesize it. 3. Your outline of the material presented in class each week. Before you submit your journal, please mark these outlines with tabs. You should have at least 9 outlines in your course journal. 4. The notes that you take while you complete the readings for the course. 5. Attending talks, lectures, and other events related to architecture is an important part of your education. Please use the journal to record your impressions from such events. We want to see notes from at least one event by the end of the end of the semester. Below is a list of art supplies stores where you can purchase a journal: Gwartzmans Art Supplies 448 Spadina Ave (Spadina just south of College St.) One of Torontos oldest art supply stores; popular among architecture students for generations. Toose Art Supplies 229 College St (College at Huron St.) Another art supply store popular among University of Toronto architecture students. Aboveground Art Supplies 74 McCaul St. (McCaul between Dundas St. and Queen St.) The art supply store at OCAD; known for its extensive selection. Currys Art Store 283 Dundas St. W; 573 Queen St. W; 490 Yonge St.; 755 Queensway East (in Mississauga) A well-stocked, well-known store; known for its selection. LATE WORK: All assignments are due in class at the specified time and date. Late submission will result in a 5% deduction (of each assignments total grade) per business day (excluding weekends). In the case of illness or other special circumstance, notification should be given to the Instructors and the Registrar as soon as possible and before the deadline in question; where required, official University of Toronto medical documentation must be submitted. FINAL DUE DATE: Due dates are set by the Course Instructor in the schedule section of this outline. All term work must be submitted on or before the last day of classes in the course concerned, unless an earlier date is specified by the Instructor. Students who for reasons beyond their control are unable to submit an assignment by its deadline must obtain approval from their Instructor for an extension to the deadline. Any work submitted without extension after Tuesday, April 30th, 2013 will not be accepted. Students will be required to petition for an extension if they will be unable to submit their work by Tuesday, April 30th, 2013.

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PREPAREDNESS AT UOFT: Students are advised to consult the universitys preparedness site (http://www.preparedness.utoronto.ca) for information and regular updates regarding procedures regarding emergency planning. ACCESSIBILITY NEEDS: Accessibility Services provides academic accommodations in collaboration with students, staff and faculty to support students with documented disabilities in equal opportunities to achieve academic and co-curricular success. If you are a student who identifies with one or more of the broad categories below, we encourage you to register with Accessibility Services (http://www.accessibility.utoronto.ca/). For any questions or assistance, please see your Registrar, Andrea McGee in Student Services. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Autism Spectrum Disorder Brain Injury and Concussion Chronic Health d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing Learning Disability Mental Health Mobility and Functional Low Vision / Legally Blind Temporary Injuries

PLAGIARISM: The Daniels Faculty HBA AS program follows the Faculty of Arts and Science best practice for Academic Integrity. Please see the Student Academic Integrity website at: http://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/osai/students/academic-integrity-basics. ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND WRITING SUPPORT: The University of Toronto expects its students to write well, and it provides a number of resources to help. Please consult: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/home for advice and answers to your questions about writing. Please pay special attention to: Advice on Writing: Academic Writing Reading and Using Sources: How Not to Plagiarize The University of Torontos Code of Behavior on Academic Matters states that: It shall be an offence for a student knowingly: (d) to represent as ones own any idea or expression of an idea or work of another in any academic examination or term test or in connection with any other form of academic work, i.e, to commit plagiarism. Wherever in the Code an offence is described as depending on knowing, the offence shall likewise be deemed to have been committed if the person ought reasonably to have known. For Advice on Academic Writing, see the website: http://www.writing.utoronto.ca/advice. Interested in the Daniels Writing Program? To book an appointment to discuss writing for reports and essays please contact: Josh Thorpe Tel: 416 978 2586 josh.thorpe@utoronto.ca

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WEEKLY SCHEDULE AND READINGS: Week 1Jan. 10 Introduction Histories of the Present I:

Architectural Education

Madlen Simon, Design Pedagogy and Kathryn H. Anthony, Studio Culture and Student Life in Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America, ed. Joan Ockman (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2012), pp. 276-285 and 396-401. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Week 2Jan. 17 Histories of the Present II:

Metropolis and Architecture

Jean-Louis Cohen, Urban Architecture and the Crisis of the Modern Metropolis in At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture, ed. Russell Ferguson (New York: Harry Abrams and Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Arts, 1998), pp. 228-274. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Week 3Jan. 24 Histories of the Present III:

Media and Architecture

Beatriz Colomina, Media as Modern Architecture in Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, ed. Anthony Vidler (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008) pp. 58-73. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Week 4Jan. 31 Guest Lecturer Week 5Feb. 7 Architecture as Space I: Architecture and Technology: Tectonics Kenneth Frampton, Introduction: Reflections on the Scope of the Tectonic in Studies in Tectonic Culture: The Poetics of Construction in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Architecture (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995), pp. 1-27. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) (Recommended) Adrian Forty, Structure in Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000), pp. 276-285. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Week 6Feb. 14 Architecture as Space II: Exam 1

Transparency

Sigfried Giedion, The Bauhaus Buildings at Dessau, 1926 in Space, Time, and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1941), pp. 491-497. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky, Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal, Part I, Perspecta 8 (1963): 45-54. (Available online through JSTOR) (Recommended) Adrian Forty, Transparency in Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture (New York: Thames & Hudson, 2000), pp. 286-288. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Feb. 21: No ClassReading Week

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Week 7Feb. 28 Architecture as Space III:

Ornament

Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime [1908] reprinted in Programs and Manifestoes on Twentieth-Century Architecture, ed. Ulrich Conrads (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971), pp. 19-24. (On reserve at Robarts) Jeffrey Kipnis, The Cunning of Cosmetics (A Personal Reflection on the Architecture of Herzog & De Meuron) in Herzog and De Meuron 1981-2000 (Madrid: El Croquis, 2000), pp. 404-411. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Week 8: Mar. 7 Architecture as Space IV:

Architecture and Technology: Environment

Reyner Banham, Architecture of the Well-Tempered Environment (London: Architectural Press 1969), pp. 11-28 and 71-92. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Week 9: Mar. 14 Guest Lecturer Week 10Mar. 21 Architecture as Utopia I: Housing Robin Evans, Figures, Doors and Passages in Translations from Drawing to Building (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997), pp. 54-91. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Week 11Mar. 28 Architecture as Utopia II: Exam 2

Public

Course journals due in class

Rem Koolhaas, Life in the Metropolis or The Culture of Congestion, Architectural Design 47.5 (August 1977), pp. 319-25. (On reserve at Shore+Moffat Library) Rem Koolhaas, The Story of the Pool in Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan [1978] (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1994), pp. 152-159 and 307-310. (On reserve at Robarts) Week 12Apr. 4 Architecture as Utopia III:

Conclusion

R. E. Somol and Sarah Whiting, Okay, Heres the Plan, Log 5 (Spring / Summer 2005), pp. 4-7. (Available online at http://www.anycorp.com/log_article.php?id=23) Reinhold Martin, Reply to Somol and Whiting, Moment of Truth Log 7 (Winter / Spring 2006), pp. 15-20. (Available online at http://www.anycorp.com/log_article.php?id=24) Reinhold Martin, Occupy: What Architecture Can Do, published on Nov. 7, 2011 on Design Observer, http://places.designobserver.com/feature/occupy-what-architecture-can-do/31128. (Available online) Final ExamApril 10-30: (Exact date and time TBA)

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