Description

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Program

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Architectural Engineering And Environmental Design

Objectives

• Throughout the history of philosophy, architecture has been widely referred to as a metaphor for conscious action and logical construction. Yet architecture means much more to philosophy and critical thought than what the explanatory use of architectural imagery evokes. It was Kant who went beyond metaphor by claiming “architectonics is the art of systems”. As such, architecture is not only a cultural practice based on knowledge but moreover a cultural practice that serves the production of philosophical knowledge. This course will discuss the importance of architecture in the formation of thought. It will draw attention to architecture as a cultural practice between intellectual reason and sensual reason. The course will raise the consciousness for the fact that it is through architecture that the sensual and the cognitive are bound together. As much as it is a material and spatial practice, architecture is an intellectual practice enabling man to experience aspects of our world that are usually disconnected: intellectual reason and sensory reason.