GK4 Small public building (18ECTS) and GK4 Structures and construction 2 (6 ECTS)

The course outlines main tendencies in the history of western architectural theory, from the present to antiquity. The course is organized as a lecture series with parallel reading seminars.

The course aims to give an overview over key theoretical currents in the history of architecture as well as to encourage students to engage theoretically through academic writing and discussions.

Lectures and reading seminars.

Students are assessed on basis of seminar presentations and essay.

The course is assessed subject to an A-F grade scale. E is the poorest pass mark, as stated in the Regulations for Master's degree programmes at Oslo School of Architecture and Design, § 6-14.

Mandatory reading

Course compendium available at the start of the course.

Recommended reading

Alberti, L. B., & Rykwert, J. (1955). De re aedificatoria. London: Tiranti.

Allen, S. (1999). Points + lines: diagrams and projects for the city. New York: Princeton Architectural Press.

Colonna, F., & Godwin, J. (1999). Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: the strife of love in a dream. London: Thames & Hudson.

Conrads, U. (1970). Programmes and manifestoes on 20th-century architecture. London: Lund Humphries.

Experimental architecture (2008).

Forty, A. (2000). Words and buildings: a vocabulary of modern architecture. London: Thames & Hudson.

Giedion, S. (1995). Building in France, building in iron, building in ferroconcrete. Santa Monica, Calif.: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities .

Hvattum, M. (1993). Eget hus og hage -: idealer i norske boligkonkurranser 1965-1981. Trondheim: Fakultet for arkitektur, NTH.

Koolhaas, R. (1994). Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan. Rotterdam: 010 Publishers.

Loos, A., Opel, D., & Opel, A. (2002). Ãœber Architektur. Riverside, Calif.: Ariadne Press.

Mallgrave, H. F. (2005). Modern architectural theory: a historical survey, 1673-1968. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Monrad, M. J. (1859). Tolv Forelæsninger om det Skjønne. Christiania: Det Norske Studentersamfunds Forl.

Mostafavi, M., & Najle, C. (2003). Landscape urbanism: a manual for the machinic landscape. London: AA Publications.

Papadakis, A. C. (1988). Deconstruction in architecture. London: Academy Editions.

Ruby, I., Ruby, A., & Steiner, D. (2002). Lacaton & Vassal. Barcelona: G. Gili.

Sammlung Goetz (2003). Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz Verlag.

Simson, O. v. (1988). The Gothic cathedral: origins of Gothic architecture and the medieval concept of order. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sudjic, D., & Burdett, R. (2007). The Endless city: the urban age project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society. London: Phaidon Press.

Team 10 primer (1968). London: Studio Vista.

Tschumi, B. (1994). The Manhattan transcripts. London: Academy Editions.

Venturi, R. (1966). Complexity and contradiction in architecture. New York.

Venturi, R., Scott Brown, D., & Izenour, S. (1977). Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.

Vitruvius Pollio, M., & Dalgren, B. (1989). De architectura. Stockholm: Byggförlaget.

Werlemann, H., Koolhaas, R., Mau, B., & Sigler, J. (1997). Small, medium, large, extra-large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. Köln: Benedikt Taschen Verlag.

Zumthor, P. (2006). Atmospheres: architectural environments : surrounding objects. Basel: Birkhäuser.