1. ARC 622 Assist.Prof.Dr. Mila Nikolic mnikolic@ibu.edu.ba
INTERNATIONAL BURCH UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT of
ARCHITECTURE
ARC 622
20TH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
OF THE WORLD
Spring Term
Assist.Prof.Dr. Mila Nikolic

2. Class Schedule: Tuesday : 17:00-19:45h

3. Brief Contents
This course is an advanced graduate seminar, whose purpose is to provide a forum for methodological discussion and presentation of individual research. The course will allow students to develop familiarity with a key body of architectural production and theoretical texts, in order to apply this understanding to new or ongoing research projects. The 20th century architecture and the most recent development within the discipline – and towards a knowledge-based society - will be analyzed through the lens of cultural infrastructure as an architectural and urban manifesto.

4. Course Objectives The aims of the course are
to present a historical understanding of the period, and
to develop a meaningful framework to assess contemporary issues in architecture.
Special attention will be paid to historiographic questions of how architects construe the terms of their "present".

5. Textbooks General readings: seminal texts, histories and readers
Frampton Kenneth: Modern Architecture - a Critical History, 4th. ed., Thames and Hudson, 2007.
Giedion, Sigfried: Space, Time and Architecture - The Growth of a New Tradition, 5th. rev. & enl. ed., Harvard University Press, 2009.
Hertzberger, Herman: Space and Learning, 010 Uitgeverij, 2008.
Kostof, Spiro, Greg Castillo: A History of Architecture, Settings and Rituals, Oxford University Press, 1995
Copplestone, Trewin (ed): World architecture - An illustrated history. Hamlyn, London, 1963
Norberg-Schulz, Christian - Principles of Modern Architecture
Jencks, Charles and Karl Kropf (eds.):Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture
Miles, Malcolm and Tim Hall with Iain Borden, (Eds.): The City Cultures Reader (Routledge Urban Reader Series), 2nd edition. Routledge, 2003
Studio Greg Lynn: Foundations. Selected Theory Texts. University of Applied Arts Vienna / Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien, 2012
Hays, K. Michael (ed.): Architecture Theory since The MIT Press, 1998

6. Textbooks Specific readings:
Will be assigned during the semester in relation to specific topics, eg.
Smithson, Alison, ed. "CIAM/Team 10." Architectural Design. May 1960, pp
Mumford, Eric. "From the 'Heart of the City' to the End of CIAM." In The CIAM Discourse on Urbanism, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000.
Sadler, Simon. "Formulary for a New Urbanism: Rethinking the City." Chapter 2 in The Situationist City. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, ISBN:
Wigley, Mark. "The Hyper-Architecture of Desire." In Constant's New Babylon: The Hyper-Architecture of Desire. Rotterdam: Center for Contemporary Art, Suggested Readings
Violeau, Jean-Louis. "A Critique of Architecture: The Bitter Victory of the Situationist International." In Anxious Modernisms: Experimentation in Postwar Architectural Culture. Edited by Sarah Williams Goldhagen. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.
Hoeger, Kerstin and Kees Christiaanse (eds.): Campus and the City – Urban Design for the Knowledge Society. gta Verlag, 2007.
Baum, Martina, Kees Christiaanse (eds.): City as Loft. Adaptive Reuse as a Resource for Sustainable Urban Development. gta Verlag, 2012

7. Grading Teaching methods:
1. Interactive lectures and communication with students
2. Discussions and individual/group work
3. Presentations
4. Projections
Assesment:
Active participation 20%
Project presentation 20%
Discussion leading 20%
Final project/paper 40%

8. Presentations Weekly Lecture Plan (Course Content): 1. Introduction
Syllabus review; course content, requirements, policies; teaching methods. Required and recommended readings.
Modern and contemporary 20th century world architecture: Architecture, City, Culture
2. Late CIAM and the Architecture of the Welfare State
Buildings to Study: James Stirling - Engineering Building, Leicester University, History Faculty Building, Cambridge University; Alison and Peter Smithson - Sheffield University Extension.
3. Traces on the City
Buildings to Study: Situationist projects; Projects by Constant.
4. Technofantasy/Megastructure. Superstudio - Italy between First and Third Worlds
Buildings to Study: Cedric Price - The Fun Palace; Archigram projects. Compare Archigram and Superstudio Projects
5. Culture Forums
Projects analysis. Discussion.
6. New York: Ambience - from metropolis to megacity
New York museums and galleries. Museum Mile.
7. Mid-term

9. Presentations Weekly Lecture Plan (Course Content):
8. National Mall, Washington, D.C.
Projects to study: SOM Analysis of the case.
9. Parisian Grand Projets
Projects to study: Bulevard Peripherique, La Defense, Le Grand Louvre.
10.Architecture and Deconstruction
Buildings to Study: Bernard Tschumi - Parc de la Villette
11.Blobs, Curves and the Formless
Buildings to Study: Frank Gehry - Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles; Greg Lynn - Artists' Space Installation,
New York
12. University Campus and City: Architecture and urban design for knowledge based society
Analysis of cases
13. DELIVERY OF TERM PAPERS.
Presentations and discussion.
14. Regional Culture: Bahrain, Abu Dhabi Masdar City, Vorarlberg
New centralities, new cultural projects.
15. Course evaluation + review.
PAPERS FEEDBACK and preparation for final presentation.