Theory of Arch and Urban Form II

This course provides an overview of the principal theories that have informed, animated, or destabilized recent architectural discourse (Regionalism and space spacifity, Tectonic expression, Environmentalism ethics and biomimicry, etc), focusing on key figures, movements, and texts from the late 1960s to the present. Recent technical approaches useful for contemporary architecture. Exploring the space as the extension of the human body; the sequence of space views experienced by people not the one from a high angle view. ICT contribution; video games which is specialized at the spatial storytelling, by collecting the scene played by people, and extend the human body. Students should be able to critically assess the ways which architectural movements achieve architectonic form; understand socio-cultural and technological factors undermining the emergence of various architectural discourses of contemporary architecture.