Courses Architectural History/Theory :: AHST 640
AHST 640
Rethinking Anthropomorphism: Body Maps + Architectural Spaces
Instructor: I. Berman
3 Credits [E]
This seminar focuses on the constitutive and mutually defining relations between the human body and architecture and the shifting theoretical frame that has governed the development of their relations. From the Vitruvian body to Le Corbusier’s Modulor Man and technologically machined ergonomic bodies of modern architecture, there has always existed a coordination between variant cultural and theoretical constructions of the body and changing spatial and architectural models. Although the emphasisof this seminar will be on more recent conceptions of the body architecture relation—how we understand, represent and inhabit the body and hence, how we conceptualize, construct and inhabit space—it will also provide a historical/theoretical context, against which these newer models might be investigated and developed.
- 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
