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COURSE DESCRIPTION
THEMES 200910
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Dr Teresa Stoppani
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MA Architecture (P11087); MSc Architectural Studies (P12139)
Architecture & Construction
KEY TEXTS
REFERENCE TEXTS
PETER EISENMAN
FRANK GEHRY
HERZOG & DE MEURON
REM KOOLHAAS
ALDO ROSSI
ALVARO SIZA
JAMES STIRLING
VENTURI & SCOTT BROWN
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course offers a platform for discussion on topical architectural issues, placing them in a wider historical, cultural and theoretical context.
The seminar format involves the direct participation of the students, through guided readings, group discussions, and textual and critical analysis of architectural theory and projects.
The scope of the seminars is to develop an argumentative criticality that will enable the students to develop a wellgrounded and yet independent critical position in architecture.
At the end of the course the students present a written paper (3000 words) based on the topics discussed in the seminars.
Each year the course focuses on a specific theme.
THEMES 200910
The 200910 course - ARCHITECTS ON ARCHITECTS - performs a critical reading of Rafael Moneo’s book, Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects (Cambridge, Mass.;
London: MIT Press, 2004).
The book collects a series of essays on contemporary architects, developed by Moneo throughout the 1990s as lectures to students: James Stirling, Venturi & Scott Brown, Aldo Rossi, Peter Eisenman, Alvaro Siza,
Frank O. Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Herzog & de Meuron.

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The reading of this text will provide the starting point for group discussions and for students’ papers on the eight protagonists of contemporary architecture studied by Moneo.
The course seminars will expand their scope with further research on the topics.
Students will research and discuss the eight architects analysed by Moneo, and will be asked to further explore both their design projects and their writings.
The course will explore the relationship between these architects and their theoretical concerns, as well as the architectural debate that surrounds their work, and the influence of their designed and built projects and of their ideas and texts on today’s architecture.
At the end of the course students will produce a critical analytical paper on one of the eight architects examined in the seminars.
Alternatively, students may choose to investigate the work and ideas of architects of a younger generation, who were influenced or reacted by the work of the architects examined in the seminars.
Ultimately, the body of work produced by the course will aspire to produce an alternative to Moneo’s book in the form a series of revised positions, or a complement and addition to this book, by introducing further and more recent case a studies.
The main focus of these investigation will remain the tension between theory and design in the work of the architects, or, as Moneo puts it, between their ‘theoretical anxiety’ and their ‘design strategies.’
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Wed 23 Sep 2009 14.00-16.00 INTRODUCTION TO MA
Architecture & MSc Architectural Studies
6 Oct 2009
24–29 Oct
INTRODUCTION
14.00-15.00 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
JAMES STIRLING
13 Oct 2009 14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
VENTURI & SCOTT BROWN
20 Oct 2009 14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
Art & Context ENVT0039 Field Trip
NO session
3 Nov 2009
ALDO ROSSI
14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
PETER EISENMAN
10 Nov 2009 14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
ALVARO SIZA
17 Nov 2009 14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
FRANK GEHRY
24 Nov 2009 14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
REM KOOLHAAS
1 Dec 2009
8 Dec 2009
14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
HERZOG & DE MEURON
14.00-15.30 Reading Seminars ARCT1029

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R107 ts mj Tue 15 Dec 2009 14.00-16.00 MAA&MScAS External Examiner visit
Mon 21 Dec 2009 Christmas - Study week
Mon 28 Dec 2009 Christmas - Study week
Mon 4 Jan 2010 Christmas - Study week
Mon 11 Jan 2010 Study week
FINAL PRESENTATION & HAND-IN
T405 ts Tue 19 Jan 2010 14.00-17.00 Reading Seminars ARCT1029
READING LISTS
KEY TEXTS
Italo Calvino, Six Memos for the Next Millennium , New York: Vintage Books, 1993.
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* Rafael Moneo, Theoretical Anxiety and Design Strategies in the Work of Eight Contemporary Architects ,
Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 2004.
720.922/MON] [Avery Hill
REFERENCE TEXTS
K. Michael Hays (ed.), Oppositions Reader: Selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism in architecture,
1973-1984 , New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 1998.
[Avery Hill 724.6/OPP]
K. Michael Hays (ed.), Architecture Theory Since 1968 , Cambridge, Mass. ; London: MIT Press, 1998.
724.6/ARC] [Avery Hill
Kate Nesbitt (ed.), Theorizing a New Agenda for Architecture: An anthology of architectural theory, 1965-1995,
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.
720.1/THE] [Avery Hill
Manfredo Tafuri, ‘”L’architecture dans le boudoir”’, in The Sphere and the Labyrinth: Avant-gardes and architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s’ , Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press, 1987.
724/TAF Study Loan] [Avery Hill
PETER EISENMAN
* Peter Eisenman, Ten canonical buildings 1950 – 2000 , New York: Rizzoli, 2008.
ISBN: 9780847830480
* Peter Eisenman, Written into the Void: Selected writings, 1990-2004 , New Haven: Yale University
Press, 2007.
[Avery Hill 720.1/EIS]

* Silvio Cassarà (ed.), Peter Eisenman: Feints , Milan: Skira; London: Thames & Hudson, 2006.
[Avery Hill 720.92/EIS:PET]
* Cynthia Davidson (ed.), Tracing Eisenman: Peter Eisenman complete works , London : Thames &
Hudson, 2006.
720.92/EIS:TRA] [Avery Hill
*
2006.
Peter Eisenman,
[Avery Hill
The Formal Basis of Modern Architecture: Dissertation 1963
720.1/EIS]
, Lars Muller Publishers,
Cynthia Davidson (ed.), Eisenman, Krier: Two ideologies: a conference at the Yale School of Architecture , New York,
The Monacelli Press, 2004.
ISBN: 1580931391
* Cynthia Davidson (ed.), Code X: the City of Culture of Galicia / Eisenman Architects , New York:
Monacelli Press, 2004.
727.094611/COD] [Avery Hill
* Peter Eisenman, Eisenman Inside Out: selected writings, 1963-1988 , New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale
University Press, 2004.
720/EIS] [Avery Hill
* Peter Eisenman, Blurred Zones: Investigations of the Interstitial: Eisenman Architects, 1988-1998 , New
York: Monacelli Press, 2003.
720.92/EIS:BLU] [Avery Hill
* Peter Eisenman, Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, decompositions, critiques , New York : Monacelli
Press, 2003.
720.92/EIS] [Avery Hill
Andrew Benjamin, ‘Resisting ambivalence: form and function in Eisenman’s architecture’, in Architectural
Philosophy , London; New Brunswick: Athlone Press, 2000.
720.1/BEN] [Avery Hill
* Peter Eisenman, Diagram Diaries (introduction by R. E. Somol), New York; London: Thames &
Hudson, 1999.
ISBN: 0500281289
* Jacques Derrida and Peter Eisenman, Chora L Works (edited by Jeffrey Kipnis & Thomas Leeser),
New York: Monacelli, 1996.
712.6094436/DER] [Avery Hill
* Jean-François Bédard (ed.), Cities of Artificial Excavation: the work of Peter Eisenman, 1978-1988 ,
Montréal: Canadian Centre for Architecture; New York: Rizzoli International, 1994.
[Avery Hill 720.92/EIS:CIT Reference]
Peter Eisenman, Re-working Eisenman (Maggie Toy, ed.), London: Academy Editions/Ernst and Sohn, 1993.
[Avery Hill 720.92/EIS:REW]

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, the Ohio State University: a building designed by Eisenman/Trott Architects (with critical essays by Rafael Moneo and Anthony Vidler), New York: Rizzoli, 1989.
[Avery Hill 725.80420977157/WEX]
* Peter Eisenmann, House of Cards (with critical essays by Peter Eisenman, Rosalind Krauss and
Manfredo Tafuri), New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
720.222/EIS] [Avery Hill
* Five Architects: Eisenman, Graves, Gwathmey, Hejduk, Meier , New York: Oxford University Press,
1975. ("This book is to some extent the outcome of a meeting of the CASE group (Conference of Architects for the Study of the Environment) held at the Museum of Modern Art in 1969." Originally published, New
York, Wittenborn & Company, 1972.)
720.922/FIV] [Avery Hill
FRANK GEHRY
* Esther da Costa Meyer, Frank Gehry: on line , New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press,
2008.
[Avery Hill 720.92/GEH:MEY]
* Frank Gehry : 1987-2003 , El Croquis Editorial, 2006.
ISBN: 8488386362
Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, ‘The Walt Disney Concert Hall and Its Mobile Subject’, in Metamorph : 9th
International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale of Venice / directed by Kurt W. Forster - Focus , New York :
Rizzoli, 2004, pp. 128-139.
724.6/MET Reference] [Avery Hill
* Frank Gehry, Gehry Draws (with essays by Horst Bredekamp, Rene Daalder, and Mark Rappolt; commentary by Frank Gehry, Edwin Chan, and Craig Webb ; edited by Mark Rappolt and Robert Violette),
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004.
[Avery Hill 720.92/GEH]
Nancy E. Joyce, Building Stata: the design and construction of Frank O. Gehry's Stata Center at MIT (commentary by Frank O. Gehry; photographs by Richard M. Sobol), Cambridge, Mass.; London : MIT Press, 2004.
[Avery Hill 727.5097444/JOY]
* Francesco Dal Co and Kurt W. Forster, Frank O. Gehry: The complete works , Milan: Electa
Architecture, 2003.
720.92/GEH:DAL] [Avery Hill
* Gehry Talks: Architecture & Process (Mildred Friedman, editor; with an essay by Michael Sorkin and commentaries by Frank O. Gehry), London : Thames & Hudson, 2003.
[Avery Hill 720.92/GEH:GEH]
Gilbert-Rolfe with Frank Gehry, Frank Gehry: The city and music , London : Routledge, 2002.
[Avery Hill 720.92/GEH:GIL]
Contemporary California houses [introduction by Beth Dunlop], London: Phaidon, 1999.
[Avery Hill Folio 728.09794/STE]

** Frank O. Gehry, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao [videorecording], INSITE Architectural Videos. no. 4,
London: INSITE Video Communications, 1999.
[Avery Hill 727.7094663/GUG] - VIDEO
James Steele, California Aerospace Museum: Frank Gehry , London : Phaidon, 1994.
[Avery Hill 727.66291/STE]
HERZOG & DE MEURON
Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron, 1992-1996 , Vol. 3, The complete works, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2004.
[Avery Hill 720.922/HER:MAC]
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2002.
Herzog & de Meuron 1998-2002: The nature of artifice=la naturaleza del artificio , El Croquis Editorial,
* Herzog & de Meuron: Natural history (edited by Philip Ursprung), Montreal: Canadian Centre for
Architecture, 2002.
ISBN: 3907078853
Rowan Moore and Raymund Ryan, Building Tate Modern: Herzog & De Meuron transforming Giles Gilbert Scott ,
London: Tate Gallery, 2000.
727.70942164/MOO] [Avery Hill
Gerhard Mack, Herzog & de Meuron 1978-1988: complete works . vol.1., Basel; Boston: Birkhauser Verlag,
1997.
[Avery Hill 720.922/HER:MAC]
Wilfried Wang, Herzog & de Meuron , Zürich: Artemis, 1992.
[Avery Hill 720.922/WAN]
REM KOOLHAAS
*
* Supercritical - Peter Eisenman meets Rem Koolhaas , London: AA Publications, 2009
ISBN: 9781902902517
Rem Koolhaas (et al.), Transient city (edited by Hou Hanru), Barcelona : Actar, 2008.
[Avery Hill 709.4935090511/TRA]
Office for Metropolitan Architecture: AMOMA, Rem Koolhaas [II] 1996 - 2007 : teoria y practica = theory and practice , Madrid: El Croquis Editorial, 2007.
ISBN: 9788488386441
Office for Metropolitan Architecture : AMOMA, Rem Koolhaas [I] 1996 - 2006 : delirio y mas = delirious and more ,
Madrid: El Croquis Editorial, 2007.
ISBN: 9788488386397
Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas 1987 – 1998 , Madrid : El Croquis, 2005.
ISBN 8488386338

[Avery Hill Study Loan 720.92/KOO:OFF]
* OMA-AMO, Rem Koolhas, Content , Köln; London: Taschen, 2004.
[Avery Hill 720.922/KOO]
Rem Koolhaas, The Dutch embassy in Berlin by OMA (with text by François Chaslin), Rotterdam: NAi
Publishers, 2004.
[Avery Hill 725.170943155/KOO:DUT]
* Lieven de Cauter, Capsular Civilization: On the city in the age of fear , Rotterdam: NAi Publishers,
2004.
ISBN: 9056624075
* What is OMA: considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (edited by Véronique
Patteeuw), Rotterdam : NAi, 2003.
ISBN 9056623494 (pbk.) :
[Avery Hill 720.92/KOO:WHA]
Rem Koolhaas (et al.), Mutations , Barcelona: Actar, 2002.
[Avery Hill 304.61/MUT]
Colours: Rem Koolhaas/OMA (Norman Foster, Alessandro Mendini, with a foreword by Gerhard Mack),
Boston : Birkhäuser, 2001.
729/COL] [Avery Hill
Chuihua Judy Chung (ed.), Great Leap Forward , Taschen, 2001.
ISBN: 382860484
Harvard Design Project on the City, Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping , Taschen, 2001.
ISBN: 3822860476
* Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau, Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture ,
Köln : Benedikt Taschen Verlag, 1997.
[Avery Hill 720.92/KOO]
Rem Koolhaas, Conversations with students (edited by Sanford Kwinter), Houston, Tex.; New York: Rice
University School of Architecture; Princeton Architectural Press, 1996.
720.92/KOO:CON] [Avery Hill
*
1994.
Rem Koolhaas,
[Avery Hill
Delirious New York: A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan
720.97471/KOO]
, New York : Monacelli Press,
OMA / Rem Koolhaas, 1987-1993 (guest editor, Alejandro Zaera Polo), El Croquis 53, Madrid: El Croquis,
1994.
[Avery Hill 720.92/KOO:OMA]
* Jacques Lucan, OMA - Rem Koolhaas: Architecture 1970-1990 , New York : Princeton Architectural
Press, 1991.
[Avery Hill 720.92/KOO:LUC]

Rem Koolhaas: projectes urbans (1985-1990) = Rem Koolhaas : urban projects (1985-1990), Series
Monografies "Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme" ="Quaderns d'arqitectura i urbanisme" monographs, Barcelona: Collegi d'Arquitectes de Catalunya; Gustavo Gili, 1990.
Item is between locations] [Avery Hill
ALDO ROSSI
* Pier Vittorio Aureli, ‘The Difficult Whole. Typology and the singularity of the urban event in Aldo
Rossi’s early theoretical work, 1953-1964’, Log , 9 Winter/Spring 2007, 39-61.
Aldo Rossi, Aldo Rossi: The sketchbooks: 1990-97 , London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.
[Avery Hill 720.92/ROS:ALD]
Benedetto Gravagnuolo, Adolf Loos: Theory and works (preface by Aldo Rossi), London : Art Data, 1995.
[Avery Hill 720.924/LOO:GRA]
Aldo Rossi: Drawings and paintings (edited by Morris Adjmi and Giovanni Bertolotto; essay by Carter Ratcliff; with texts by Morris Adjmi, Giovanni Bertolotto, and Stefanie Lew), New York : Princeton Architectural,
1993.
720.222/ROS:ALD[ [Avery Hill
Aldo Rossi : The complete buildings and projects 1981-1991 (edited by Morris Adjmi; introduction by Diane
Ghirardo; text and afterword by Karen Stein; essay by Aldo Rossi), London: Thames and Hudson, 1992.
[Avery Hill 720.92/ROS:ALD]
Aldo Rossi, Selected writings and projects , London: Architectural Design; Dublin: Gandon Editions, *
1983.
[Avery Hill Study Loan 720.924/ROS]
* Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City (introduction by Peter Eisenman), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT
Press, 1982.
[Avery Hill 711.4/ROS]
* Aldo Rossi, A Scientific Autobiography , Cambridge, Mass.; London: MIT Press, 1981.
[Avery Hill Study Loan 720.924/ROS]
Carlo Aymonino, Aldo Rossi: Housing complex at the Gallaratese Quarter , Milan, Italy. 1969-1974 (edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa ; text by Pierluigi Nicolin), Global Architecture, 45, Tokyo: A.D.A.
Edita, 1977.
Folio 720.924/AYM:CAR] [Avery Hill
ALVARO SIZA
* Otavio Leonidio, ‘Alvaro Siza's enigma’, in Log , 16, Spring 2009. http://www.anycorp.com/log/about.php
* Jorge Figueira, Alvaro Siza: Modern Redux , Hatje Cantz, 2008.
ISBN: 9783775722988

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* Alvaro Siza 2001-2008: el sentido de las cosas = the meaning of things , El Croquis Editorial, 2008.
ISBN: 9788488386496
Kenneth Frampton, Álvaro Siza: complete works , London: Phaidon Press, 2006.
[Avery Hill 720.92/SIZ:FRA[
* Alvaro Siza 1958-2000: getting through turbulence = Salvando las turbulencias ; Notes on invention =
Notas sobre la invencion, El Croquis Editorial, 2000.
* Alvaro Siza, Writings on Architecture , Skira Editore, 1997.
Álvaro Siza : city sketches = Stadtskizzen = desenhos urbanos (edited by Brigitte Fleck, foreword by Norman
Foster, texts by Álvaro Siza and Wilfried Wang), Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 1994.
[Avery Hill 711.40222/ALV]
Alvaro Siza: Works and projects 1954-1992 (edited by José Paulo dos Santos, introductions by Peter Testa and
Kenneth Frampton), Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1993.
[Avery Hill 720.92/SIZ]
JAMES STIRLING
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* Mark Girouard, Big Jim: The life and work of James Stirling , London: Chatto & Windus, 1998.
[Avery Hill 720.92/STI:GIR]
Robert Maxwell, James Stirling/Michael Wilford , Boston, Mass.: Birkhauser Verlag, 1998.
[Avery Hill 720.92/STI:MAX]
* Colin Rowe, ‘Who, but Stirling?’, in As I Was Saying: Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume
Two: Cornelliana (ed. By Alexander Caragonne), Cambridge and London: MIT Press, 1996, pp. 265-276.
* Wilford Stirling Wilford , London: E. & F. N. Spon, 1996. (Published to coincide with the exhibition
'Wilford Stirling Wilford' at the RIBA Architecture Centre, 10 June 1996 to 5 August 1996). [Avery Hill
720.922/WIL]
John McKean, Leicester University Engineering Building: James Stirling and James Gowan , London: Phaidon, 1994.
[Avery Hill 727.462/MAC]
David Jenkins , Clore Gallery, Tate Gallery, Liverpool: James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates , London:
Phaidon, 1992.
[Avery Hill 727.7/JEN]
* Deyan Sudjic, Norman Foster, Richard Rogers, James Stirling: New directions in British architecture ,
London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.
[Avery Hill 720.941085/SUD]
* James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates, James Stirling: Buildings and projects (introduction by
Colin Rowe ; compiled and edited by Peter Arnell and Ted Bickford), London: Architectural Press, 1984.
[Avery Hill 720.924/STI]
James Stirling, James Stirling , London: Academy Editions, 1982.

[Avery Hill 720.924/STI:STI]
James Stirling (catalogue of exhibition held at the Royal Institute of British Architects, 24 April - 21 June
1974), London: RIBA Publications, 1976.
720.924/STI] [Avery Hill
James Stirling et al., James Stirling, buildings & projects 1950-1974 , London: Thames and Hudson, 1975.
[Avery Hill 720.924/STI]
James Stirling: Leicester University Engineering Department, Leicester, Great Britain. 1959-63. Cambridge University
History Faculty, Cambridge, Great Britain. 1964-68 (edited and photographed by Yukio Futagawa; text by
Kiyonori Kikutake), Global Architecture, 9, Tokyo: A.D.A. Edita, 1971.
Folio 720.924/STI:JAM] [Avery Hill
VENTURI & SCOTT BROWN
* Denise Scott Brown, Having Words , London: AA Publications, 2009.
ISBN: 9781902902708
* Relearning from Las Vegas (edited by Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec), Minneapolis, Minn.:
University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
720.973/REL] [Avery Hill
Robert Venturi, Iconography and electronics upon a generic architecture : a view from the drafting room , Cambridge,
Mass.; London: MIT Press, 1998.
724.6/VEN] [Avery Hill
Colin Rowe, ‘Robert Venturi and the Yale Mathematics Building Competition’, in As I Was Saying:
Recollections and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume Two: Cornelliana (ed. By Alexander Caragonne), Cambridge and
London: MIT Press, 1996, pp. 79-102
** Virtually Las Vegas [videorecording], Late show special, London : BBC, 1995.
1 videocassette VHS (40 min.). Unedited off-air broadcast, recorded from BBC-2 on 16/1/95.
720.9793135/VIR] - VIDEO [Avery Hill
Colin Amery, A celebration of art & architecture: the National Gallery Sainsbury , London : National Gallery
Publications, 1991.
[Avery Hill 727.70942132/AME]
Venturi and Rauch: the public buildings , Architectural monographs, 1, London : Academy Editions, 1978.
[Avery Hill 720.924/VEN:ARC]
* Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture , New York: Museum of Modern Art in association with the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, 1977.
720.1/VEN] [Avery Hill
* Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas: the forgotten symbolism of architectural form , Cambridge, Mass; London: MIT Press, 1977.
Also available in new ed. edited by Kester Rattenbury and Samantha Hardingham, Abingdon: Routledge,
2007.

[Avery Hill 720.979313/VEN]
Also available in original edition Cambridge (Mass.); London: MIT Press, 1972.
[Avery Hill Folio 720.979313/VEN Reference]