Theory of architecture II

Theory of architecture after the 20th

century and theoreticians
• Towards a new architecture Corbusier
• Complexity and contradiction in architecture Robert Venturi
• Phenomenology Christian Nordberg Schultz
• Organic architecture, how to see space as a leading part in
architecture Bruno Zevi
• Deconstruction Jaques Derida and Eisenman
• Critical Regionalism Kenneth Frampton
• Bernard Tschumi
• Manfredo Tafuri
 The beginning of twentieth century
• Le Corbusier, towards a new architecture
• A house is a machine to live in
• A change from a stylistic experiment of architecture to an
architecture that would fundamentally change how humans
interacted with buildings
• Demanding a rebirth of architecture based on
function and a new aesthetic based on pure
form.
 Postmodernism
• "probably the most important writing on the making
of architecture since Le Corbusier’s 'Vers Une
Architecture”
• How to understanding architectural composition and
complexity, and the resulting richness and interest.
“Less Is More”

“Less is Bore”
• “Modernism has produced buildings but, as
yet, no architecture.”
 Phenomenology
• How to experience built space and building
materials in their sensory aspects.
• “the place” Vs “taking the place”
• The unique conversation between the thing and its
place should be the relevant topic rather than the
thing itself.
 Bruno Zevi
• “…… even if the other arts contribute to
architecture, it is interior space, the space
which surrounds and includes us, which is the
basis for our judgment of a building, which
determines the “yea” or “nay” of aesthetic
pronouncement on architecture. All the rest is
important in a subordinate relation to the
spatial idea.
 Deconstruction
• Architecture where Desire can Live
• Jacques Derida
– philosopher
– literary critic
• Architecture will always remain labyrinthine. The
issue is not to give up one point of view for the sake
of another, which would be the only one and
absolute, but to see a diversity of possible points of
view.
 Critical Regionalism
• Keneth Frampton as a leading figure
 Exercise
• Deconstruct the Villa Savoye