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Theory
ARCH 170 - Introduction to the Built Environment
THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE
| Overview | Descriptive (explanatory) and prescriptive (normative) theories. Architecture as a proxy for all design disciplines. |
| Vitruvius | The canonical definition and its contemporary extension. |
| Laugier | The "Primitive Hut" and the Neoplatonic search for the origins of architecture. |
| Normative Theories | Protofunctionalism. Functionalism (Modernism). Postmodernism. |
| The Sign | The Ogden and Richards Triangle: Signifier and Signified. |
| Denotation & Connotation | Roland Barthes and the relationship between denotative and connotative meaning. |
| Semiotic Interpretations | Roland Barthes and the concept of "sign-function". Norberg-Schulz. Umberto Eco: Similarities between architecture and mass communication. |
| The idea of Type | Quatremere de Quincy: Three fundamental aspects of type. Ernesto Rogers. Rafael Moneo. |
| Intention & Interpretation | Production and fruition of form. Ordering space and making sense of it. The role of the user. Is a coffee pot a work of architecture? |
