MH4102 Contemporary Architectural Practices Syllabus:
MH4102 Contemporary Architectural Practices Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021
OBJECTIVES
To impart knowledge about contemporary architectural practices/ practitioners along with stated ideas/ theoretical writings.
To give an understanding about how architectural practices engage with issues/ conditions.
To give an understanding of architecture as a product of the context that produces it as well as a way towards the future.
To enable engagement in architectural interpretation and criticism
UNIT I ARCHITECTURE AND IDEAS/ INTENT
Understanding and interpreting works of architects who explicitly state their ideas/ theories for example Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman. Understanding and interpreting contemporary Iconic architecture/ Starchitecture through stated intent of architect and final form- for example Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Libeskind, BIG architects
UNIT II ARCHITECTURE AND CONTEXT
Understanding and interpreting works of architects whose response to universals and particulars of context – social/ cultural/ environmental are considered exemplary- for example Zumthor, Murcutt, Siza, Barragan, Souto de Moura, Correa, Doshi, Aravena. Ken Yeang, William McDonough.
UNIT III ARCHITECTURAL FORM IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Understanding and interpreting works of architects who are considered exemplary in their engagement with the digital age and technology through contemporary processes- for example Greg Lynn, ZHA, UNstudio, NOX, Novak, FOA, Gehry
UNIT IV ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY
Understanding and interpreting works of architects who include the city and its forces within the discourse of architecture – for example Rem Koolhaas, MVRDV.
UNIT V EMERGING ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICES IN INDIA
Study and analysis of emerging practices in India along with their stated ideals/ approaches/ writings in the context of the diverse interests and concerns of the contemporary world.
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
COURSE OUTCOMES
CO1 A critical understanding of contemporary architectural practice that is influenced by or informed by specific conditions/ ideas/ situations and that is explicitly evident in the final work.
CO2 An ability to understand the role of architecture as built propositions towards future by interpreting the present
REFERENCES
1. B.V.Doshi, Paths Uncharted
2. Bjarke Ingels, Yes is More
3. Daniele Pauly, Barragan, Space and Shadow, Walls and Colour, Birkhauser 2002
4. Harry Francis Mallgrave and David Goodman, An Introduction to Architectural Theory- 1968 to the present, Wiley Blackwell 2011
5. Kate Nesbitt, Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, 1996
6. Koolhaas, Rem, and Bruce Mau, S, M, L, XL. New York: Monacelli Press, 1995
7. Lynn, Greg. Animate Form. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1999
8. Michael Hays (ed) Architectural Theory since 1960,MIT Press, 2000
9. MVRDV, FARMAX
10. Rahul Mehrotra, Architecture in India since 1990
11. Steven Holl, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alberto Pérez Gómez, Questions of perception: phenomenology of architecture, William Stout, 2006
12. Tschumi, Bernard. Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1994