Content of Learning Activity

Théory of architecture III : architectures, urbanismes, societies, démocracies and sustainbility.
1. Representation of architecture in its many dimensions: functional, technical, artistic, etc. from Alberti to Alexander
Types of architectural analysis and critic analysis of architecture. Creation of analysis grids(Von Meiss, Zevi, Ascott...). The impact of reprensentation on build environment trought modernity and sustainable development.
2. Theory of architecture in the twentieth century (Gropius, Huet...). Dominant concepts (autonomy - hétéronomy; mass housing, urbanistic ; vitruvian articulation) and main critical debates (May, Hilbersheim, Jencks, Magnaghi...) from modernity to sustainability.
3. Evolution of the architect's role (Michel Ragon et Yves Dauge (senat)...) and its adaptation to sustainable issues.
These three parts are continuously bind to a theory of the sustainble goals (see UE).

Required Learning Resources/Tools

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Recommended Learning Resources/Tools

GROPIUS Walter, Architecture et société. Textes choisis, présentés et annotés. Traduit de l'allemand.‎ ‎Paris, Editions du Linteau, 1995, 199 pages. DE CARLO Giancarlo, Entretiens avec Franco Buncuga, Architecture et liberté, Les éditions du Linteau, 2004, 310 pages.
HUET Bernard, Sur un état de la théorie de l'architecture au XXe siècle, éditions Quinquette, 2009, Montrouge
RAGON Michel , L'Architecte, le prince et la démocratie : Vers une démocratisation de l'Architecture (Albin Michel (1977)) 252 pp
Frédéric Compain, Le Bauhaus de Dessau de Walter Gropius, Film sur DVD, collection Architectures (n°1), 2001, Arte video
ZEVI Bruno, Apprendre à voir l'architecture, éditions de Minuit, Paris 1959 (2005), 135pp. (en partie)

Other Recommended Reading

Jacques Aron, Architecture et société, CIAUD/ICASD, 1976, Bruxelles, 127 pp. Bibliographie et documentation renseignée.

Mode of delivery

• Hybrid

Type of Teaching Activity/Activities

• Cours magistraux
• Exercices dirigés

Evaluations

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