Description

This seminar-like course introduces graduate students to the realm of architectural criticism. Students` curiosity to the subject is based on their experience with architectural design classes and instructors` evaluations. The course deals with the topic as a methodology and expression of ideologyrn

Program

M.Sc. in Architectural Engineering and Environemental Design

Objectives

• Criticism is judgment flavored by one’s sphere of interaction. Students should learn how to look and interpret behind-the-scene phenomena, and not to be biased by tempting forms or presentations. The objectives that students should gain: knowledge about criticism and its importance for theory and practice of architecture, curiosity, Suspicion, Link knowledge in different fields (art, science, …etc.), the ability to view things as “wholes”, the way of Developing a “theoretical” model for understanding architectural form as synthesis for a multiplicity of forces or factors (socio-cultural, political, environmental, technological…etc.), learning about development of architectural theory and practice of the twentieth century, learning that architecture goes hand in hand with urban design as concrete formulations to prevailing discourses.