1—18/20 AGO___PRESENTACION DEL CURSO/___
PRIMERA PARTE : CONTEXTOS DE LO MODERNO 1900-1930
2—25/27 AGO___ARCHITECTURE A SYNOPTIC VISION/PLURALISM VS CLOUD___
WHAT IS THE CONTEMPORARY?, FROM THE BOOK "WHAT IS AN APPARATUS?" AND OTHER ESSAYS
…….Coding was once a means to formal complexity; not so long ago. It was a way out of the impasse of reductionist formal intent and a creative way to introduce uncertainty, by superimposing and juxtaposing multiple levels of representational perception. It was a question revolving around possibilities enabled and empowered through digital tools. This premise is already obsolete, though what is it replaced with?…….The world is splitting between us as users and players of blissful games and us as enablers of new directions and new natures as lumps of big data. Coding is thus no longer an issue of form making or even of optimization……….
…………As Hubert Damisch writes, the cloud is a body without surface, but not without substance. Although it has no surface, the cloud is visible. In this sense, the emerging ecology of the cloud- the lump of data- is our contemporary obligation to translate. At the center of the lump discourse lies the question: How does the cloud affect our relationship to knowledge? The permeation of organizational tools in our discipline is not innocent. It is not merely about facilitating and managing knowledge; it also transforms the nature of design, with no return. Is it not critical that we give equal attention to reconsidering our classification systems and how they are affecting architectural discourses?………………
Giorgio Agamben, filósofo, es profesor de Estética en la Facultad de Arte y Diseño de la Universidad IUAV de Venecia.
……………………….what is the contemporary?…………………..what is the scale, duration, and position in history of the contemporary? Is the contemporary best understood as a historical moment, an ever-receding temporal horizon, or a cultural worldview, condition, a style?……………………how do space and place (private and public, regional and national, global and planetary) determine what counts, or doesn't count, as contemporary?……………………………Giorgio Agamben [“What Is the Contemporary?” from What is an Apparatus? and Other Essays, trans. David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella (Stanford University Press, 2009)] interprets the contemporary as an experience of profound dissonance: ‘Contemporariness is, then, a singular relationship with one’s own time, which adheres to it and, at the same time, keeps a distance from it’………….In his discussion, Agamben attempts to articulate the idea that the contemporary is an ahistorical concept; not a label of periodization, but an existential marker…………….
3—1/3 SEPT___GARNIER—LABROUSTE—SCHINKEL/___
[STRUCTURE BROUGHT TO LIGHT / ARCHITECTURES: PALAIS GARNIER]
4—8/10 SEPT___CRYSTAL PALACE—CENTRAL PARK/___
[CONSTRUIR EN ACERO: FORMA Y ESTRUCTURA EN EL ESPACIO CONTINUO / WHEN PARKS WERE RADICAL]
5—15/17 SEPT___PARIS 1889—CHICAGO 1893—VIENNA SECESSION—PARIS 1900/___
[LOUIS SULLIVAN: STRUGGLE FOR AN AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE / ARCHITECTURES: VIENNA POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK]
6—22/24 SEPT___HALLADIE/BOYLE: CURTAIN GLASS SYSTEMS___
[THE USES OF DAYLIGHT / HOW THE GLASS CURTAIN WALL WAS BORN]
SEGUNDA PARTE : MANIFESTACIONES DE LO MODERNO 1930-1960
7—29 SEPT/1 OCT___CASA-TEXTO ASIG___
[REFERENCIAS: FLLW/MIES/GAUDI/LE CORBUSIER]
8—6/8 OCT___MIES—GAUDI/___
[REGULAR OR SUPER / ARCHITECTURES: LA PEDRERA]
9—13/15 OCT___WRIGHT-SCHINDLER/LE CORBUSIER-SERT/___
[ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT ARCHITECTS] / [SCHINDLER HOUSE, LOS ANGELES / SERT, CASA EN CAMBRIDGE]
9—20/22 OCT___ EXPO PARIS 1932 / NY 1939
[LATIN AMERICA IN CONSTRUCTION / MODERN ARCHITECTURE IN LATIN AMERICA]
10—27/29 OCT___JAOUL/___
[THE CASE FOR ABSTRACTION] / [CARPENTER CENTER, CAMBRIDGE / MILLOWNER’S ASSOCIATION BLDG, AHMENABAD]
TERCERA PARTE : VARIACIONES DE LO MODERNO 1960+
11—5/1O NOV___CASA-TEXTO ASIG___
12—12/17 NOV___ FELIPE CORREA, SOMATIC COLLABORATIVE: BUILDING A CULTURE OF REPRESENTATION
13—1/3 DIC___ CONTEXTO GEHRY/MONEO
14—8/10 DIC___ GUGGENHEIM VS KURSAAL: SURFACING/ORDERING/AUTHORSHIP/___
15—15/17 DIC___ THE MATHEMATICS OF THE IDEAL VILLA / A PATTERN LANGUAGE / LOS ANGELES: THE ARCHITECTURE OF 4 ECOLOGIES / AN ENGINEER IMAGINES___
