Interested students will participate in exploring a related set of concerns involving the development of historical urban utopii conditioned by desires both to express socil resistance and to produce new social identities. A lecture course on the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze will deal with the metaphysical foundations of contemporary space and time. Readings will include Deleuze's analyses of Spinoza, Leibniz, Nietzsche, and Bergson. Strong emphasis will be placed on reading, writing, as well as on design applications of principles from the work. An investigation of how materials influence and inspire the making of works of architecture.
Enrollment is limited.
Through a series of case studies, this course will examine the socio-cultural consequences of exemplary buildings from the Englightenment through Postmodernity. 3.00 Spring 99 Stress, strain and torsion in materials will be analyzed in several works of modern architecture and sculpture. How materials resist bending or rupture and the imminence of either possibility will be studied in the context of more traditional ideas of space and time in modern architecture. Extensive reading and class participation is required. Advanced course in structural design.