Duration
40h Th
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 5 crédits |
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Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
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Learning unit contents
We approach this master's seminar as a real "theoretical workshop". In order to study the many facets of the architecture of what we will call the turn of the 21st century - let's say from 1980 to 2020 - it seems to us more necessary than ever to go beyond the cleavages too often maintained, since Vitruvius, between practice and theory, between the hand and the head, in order to accept to manipulate words and concepts with this passion for tinkering that Lévi-Strauss defended so well in La Pensée sauvage.
For the part of the seminar-workshop dedicated to philosophical questions, we will be inspired by the method that Céline Bodart was able to try out in our faculty and at the GERPHAU laboratory (Paris) and which consists of working with prefixes that allow us to adjust the language to realities or simply to new things and thus to better grasp the dynamics of architecture and of the world over the past 50 years: We will therefore examine these words, in a way "rehabilitated" from a radical that now seems to be questioned: postmodernity, supermodernity, hypermodernity, ultramodernity, transhumanism, posthumanism, deconstruction, co-construction, eco-construction, anarchitecture, atopic or heterotopic spaces, utopian or dystopian world, anthropocene. ... an inventory that we want to be as open as possible in order to be as close as possible to the research questions that the students will want to address.
We will thus have the opportunity to review (or at least to invite to read) the philosophers that architects regularly call upon to think about their action in the world: Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lefebvre, Habermas, Lyotard, Debord, Baudrillard, Virilio, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault, Ricoeur, and more recently, Latour, Sloterdijk, Zizek, Nancy, Badiou... As for the architects, we will respond to the request, but some figures serve as beacons in this landscape of architectural thought - Kroll, Parent, Venturi, Jencks, Frampton, Huet, Tschumi, Koolhass, Hadid, Zumthor, Lacaton and Vassal... - to name but a few of those who have written the history of architecture between the 1980 Venice Biennale entitled "The Presence of the Past" and the 2020 Biennale entitled "How to Live Together".
For the part of the seminar devoted to the "language of post-modern architecture", we will call upon the most appropriate tools - for the architect in any case - of the theory of signs and literary theories. After having inventoried a whole set of operative key concepts, we will do exercises together in order to interpret and valorize architecture, two of the three objectives inscribed in the very name of our laboratory DIVA (http://www.diva.ulg.ac.be/people/). Parts of the seminar will be devoted to "intertextual strategies" at work in postmodern architecture. Here, authors such as Barthes, Eco, Jencks, Goodman, Genette or the Mu Group will serve as references.
This seminar will provide an introduction to research (TFE, doctorate) by meeting the transversal axes of reflection identified during the reform of teaching in the master's cycle. Indeed, we will address with the most contemporary thinkers the question of (1) sustainable development (anthropocene, ecoconstruction, collapsology, tension between local and global), (2) technology and transhumanism, (3) habitat and (4) of course architecture as art by interpreting and enhancing it (the challenge of the DIVA laboratory) in an interdisciplinary logic of applied poetics (the challenge of the CIPA laboratory).
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
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Prerequisite knowledge and skills
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Mode of delivery (face to face, distance learning, hybrid learning)
Face-to-face course
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Exam(s) in session
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oral exam
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Contacts
Dawans Stéphane : sdawans@uliege.be