| Course Unit Title | THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE I |
| Course Unit Code | APX324 |
| Course Unit Details | BA Architecture (Required Courses) - |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 3 |
| | Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:- Identify contemporary issues and research topics in Architecture.
- Recognize contemporary architectural projects and their architects.
- Develop the ability to discuss abstract ideas and relate them to specific case studies.
- Develop critical thinking and questioning.
- Construct personal arguments and positions regarding contemporary questions in architectural theory and practice.
- Express personal positions and ideas via a series of relative means.
- Demonstrate argumentative and discursive skills in speaking and writing.
- Locate critical questions within their relative historical and theoretical contexts.
- Identify the difference between different sorts of theorisations according to their relative epistemological status.
- Apprehend the specific epistemic status of architectural thinking.
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
| Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE |
| Recommended optional program components | - Architecture / Theory since 1968, ed. Michael Hays, (2000), The MIT Press
- Contemporary Theory and Criticism of Architecture, 1960 - Present, Mary McLeod
- Theories and Manifestoes of Contemporary Architecture, ed. C.Jencks and K.Kropf , (2006), Wiley Academy
- Warped Space/ Στρεβλός Χώρος, Anthony Vidler, N. Patsavos/ Ν. Πατσαβός (transl.), (2014), ΙΩΝ
- Epistimi kai Schediasmos/ Eπιστήμη και Σχεδιασμός, Panos Tzonos/ Πάνος Τζώνος, (2001), Παπασωτηρίου
- Lexeis stin Architektoniki kai Epistimoniki Skepsi/ Λέξεις στην Αρχιτεκτονική και Επιστημονική Σκέψη, Petros Martinides/ Πέτρος Μαρτινίδης, (1993), Σμίλη.
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| Course Contents | With this course Architecture Theory is introduced to the students as the necessary hermeneutical and critical link between History and Design.The aim of the course during this semester is to focus on the question of architectural thinking through a double perspective. At the first place, the intention is to understand the specificities of architectural knowledge and thinking. At second, a series of hermeneutical possibilities are being proposed. Thus, the course emphasises on both the activity of design itself and the design methods that have been developed throughout the twentieth and twenty first century in specific, while, in parallel, a series of critical and contextual issues are being raised. This overall approach aims at supporting a more self-aware and speculative as well as methodic design approach, which could allow students to act and think more creatively during design classes. The course presents examples of different design methods and processes and analyzes them according to the different possibilities they entail as well as according to their relative ideological and philosophical kinships.
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| Recommended and/or required reading: |
| Textbooks | - I Michani kai to Diktyo/ H Μηχανή και το Δίκτυο ως Δομικά Πρότυπα στην Αρχιτεκτονική, Yiannis Zavoleas/ Γιάννης Ζαβολέας, (2013), futura
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| References | - Abalos, I. (2001). The good life: A guided visit to the houses of modernity. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili.
- Allen, S. (2003). Practice: architecture, technique and representation. London: Routledge.
- Cache, B. (1999). Digital Semper. Retrieved September 14,2010, from fielddesignlab.files.wordpress.com: http://fielddesignlab.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/digital-semper2.pdf
- Corbusier, L. (1923). Για μια αρχιτεκτονική. (Τ. Παναγιώτης, μτφ.) Αθήνα: Εκκρεμές, [2004].
- De Landa, M. (2002). Intensive Scince and Virtual Philoshophy. London, New York: Continuum.
- Deleuze, G. (1993). "The Diagram". In G. Deleuze, & C. V. Boundas, The Deleuze reader (pp. 193-200). New York: Columbia University Press.
- Foucault, M. (1995). Discipline and Punish:The Birth of the Prison. (A. Sheridan, Trans.) New York: Vintage Books.
- Kolarevic, B. (2003). Architecture in the digital age, Design and manufacturing. New York: Spon Press: Taylor & Fransis Group.
- Kubo, M., & Ferre, A. (2003). Phylogenesis: foa's ark. Barcelona, London: Actar.
- Kwinter, S. (2002). Architectures of Time: Toward a theory of the event in modernist culture. Massachusetts: The MIT press.
- Lynn, G. (1999). Animate Form. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.
- Morales, I. d. (1997). Differences: Topografies of Contemporary Architecture. Cambridge: MIT Press.
- Pai, H. (2002). The Portfolio and the Diagram. Architecture, Discourse and Modernity in America. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
- Rahim, A. (2006). Catalytic Formations, Architecture and Digital Design. London, New York: Taylor & Francis.
- Renaut, A. (2009). Η φιλοσοφία. Αθήνα : Πόλις.
- Thompson, D. A. (1999). Ανάπτυξη και Μορφή στο Φυσικό Κόσμο. Αθήνα: Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις Ε.Μ.Π.
- Trummer, P. (2005, Summer). Spatial Regimes, Material and its Architectural Effects. Hunch Disciplines, the Berlage Institute report No. 9, pp. 104-111.
- Van Berkel, B., & Bos, C. (1999). Move, UN Studio. Imagination, Techniques, Effects. Amsterdam: UN Studio & Goose Press.
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| Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of the course is delivered to students by means of lectures, conducted by electronic presentations. Lecture notes and pictures are given to students in electronic form.
Lectures are supplemented by visits to architectural exhibitions and lectures by other architects; their discussion and analysis are part of the course requirements. Analysis of videos and articles or other readings and references is also part of the course's planned activities and pedagogies.
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| Assessment methods and criteria | | Ppt Presentations in class | 20% | | Mid term assignment | 30% | | Final assignment | 50% |
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| Language of instruction | Greek |
| Work placement(s) | NO |
