Courses Architectural History/Theory :: AHST 440
AHST 440
Philosophy of Architecture
Instructor: B. Goodwin
3 Credits [E]
This seminar begins with a consideration of philosophy as a foundation for the development of an architectural theory. After a discussion of some basic concepts and terms we sketch a broad outline of the categories and organization of the discipline of philosophy. We then study the rationalist and empiricist positions in architectural theory, the emergence of Kantian critical philosophy, the shift in emphasis in 20th century philosophy from epistemology to ontology that is characteristic of Existentialism, and the late 20th century attack on traditional epistemology characteristic of poststructuralism. We then discuss the emergence of literary theory as a paradigmatic discipline in the last 30 years as well as the expansion of western philosophy to include aspects of Zen Buddhism, Taoism, and eastern mystical traditions. With this foundation, the course focuses more specifically on theories of architecture and aesthetics and their relationships to various philosophical positions.
- AHST 101 Ancient to Modern - Survey
- AHST 101, 110 History of Architecture I - Survey
- AHST 111 Introduction to Architecture
- AHST 230 Introduction to Architecture for Non-majors
- AHST 310 History of Architecture: Ancient-Medieval Architecture
- AHST 311 History of Architecture: Renaissance-Baroque Architecture
- AHST 312 History of Architecture: 19th-Century
- AHST 322 Modernity
- AHST 322 Modernism
- AHST 330 Islamic Architecture
- AHST 340 Frank Lloyd Wright & His Contemporaries
- AHST 341 American Urbanism
- AHST 410 Issues in Contemporary Architecture
- AHST 411 Theorizing the Real in Contemporary Practice
- AHST 412 Theory and Anti-theory in Contemporary Practice
- AHST 420 Precedents & Case Studies Practicum
- AHST 420 (421, 422) Precedents and Case Studies
- AHST 440 Philosophy of Architecture
- AHST 450 Northern Romanticism in Art and Architecture
- AHST 453 Survey of Russian Art
- AHST 463 Sexual Subjectivity and Space
- AHST 620 Representing Culture and Ethnicity in the Public Sphere
- AHST 631 The House as the American Dream
- AHST 632 Other Modernisms: The Avant-Garde in The Tropics
- AHST 640 Rethinking Anthropomorphism: Body Maps + Architectural Spaces
- AHST 651 Regional Modernism: The New Orleans Archives
- AHST 672 Urban Art and Public Space
- AHST 691 Latin American Cities
