Early 18th Century shifts in philosophy and design; Kant and the importance on aesthetics, Hegel and rise of historicism
Week of Jan 18 –24
Module 2: Context: Early 18th Century shifts in philosophy and design; Kant and the importance on aesthetics, Hegel and rise of historicism; introduction of historical styles as a basis of architectural design representation; modernity; approaches to meaning through industrialization, mechanization, dimensionality, the body, the mind and human animal; origins of postmodernism – constructed meaning, the crisis of utopia, the end of societal telos; 21st century concerns for theory – image, globalization, commercialism
Readings: Mitrović, Philosophy for Architects, 51-55, 57- 62, 77-84, 93-103, 166-168
Le Bon, “from The Crowd: A Study of trhe Popular Mind” in Modernism, An Anthology of Sources and Documents, 36-38