Advanced Topics in Modern Architecture: After the Ruins of Modernism: New Languages for a New Architecture

This seminar examines the varied calls after World War II for a new language of architecture. Drawing on the work of philosophers, psychoanalysts and social scientists, theorists from Banham to Portoghesi sought to replace the shattered unities proposed by the Modern Movement by exploring new "isms," new concepts of "meaning," "emery," "symbolism" and above all, "history." Whether re-reading Freud, re-writing phenomenology, or construing anthropology on the basis of structural linguistics, these theorists paved the way for a second generation of philosophers to create the ground for an architecture of poetics and power.