Bill Thompson: Cultural Context in Architecture Seminars


Cultural Context in Architecture Seminars, Handouts & Reading List 2008/9
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Module 1: CCI		Course Book	Back to top
Week no.	Content /Handout	Click any image for the corresponding PDF	Other Books/Papers Mentioned
1	Handout 1.1: Perception		Bachelard G Goffman E
2	Money as Debt (Click on the image below for introductory video)
3	Handout 1.2: Ecological Perception		Gibson J J Norman D A Merleau Ponty M
4	Handout 3: Thinking and the Expression of Thought
5	Handout 4: Introduction to Culture as a Concept		Watkin D
6	Handout 5: Concepts of Perception		Dawkins R Prigogene I
7	Handout 6: Signifier & Signified
8	Presentation week: Architectural Theory 1, Part A (Click on the image below for a PDF copy of the presentation.)
9	Presentation week: Architectural Theory 1, Part B (Click on the image below for a PDF copy of the presentation.)
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Module 2: CCII		Course Book	Back to top
1	Handout 7: Ideology & Utopia I		Baird G Buber M Hearn F
2	Handout 7.1: The Space Between		Arendt H
3	Handout 7.2: Constructs and Programs		Thompson B Shaw G B
4	4 DAYS ON THE OUTSIDE
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Module 3: CCIII		Course Book	Back to top
1	Handout 8: Problems with the concept of Society		Stevenson L Jammer M Bakhtin M Plamenatz
2	Handout 9: Self Society and Species		Scott G Watkin D
3	Handout 10: Synchronic and diachronic		Barthes R Saussure F de Gelernter M
4	Handout 11: Phenomena and the concept of a Causal Fabric		Lynch K Neisser U
5 - 12	Guest presentations
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Module 4: CCIV		Course Book	Back to top
1	Handout 12: Artificial Intelligence
2	Handout 13: Transport Systems
3	Handout 14: The Public Realm
4	4 DAYS ON THE OUTSIDE
5	Handout 15: Manifestos And Polemics
6	Handout 16: Ideology And Utopia II
7	Handout 17: Peter Kropotkin
8	Handout 18: Robert Owen
9	Handout 19: Henry George
10	Dissertation lecture
11	Dissertation lecture
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Module 5: CCV		Course Book	Back to top
1	Dissertation individual sessions
2	Dissertation individual sessions
3	Dissertation individual sessions
6	Dissertation individual sessions
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Module 6: CCVI		Course Book	Back to top
1	Handout 20: Hermeneutics II		Cohen G Canguilhem G Frampton K Kurokawa K Foucault M Gelernter M
2	Handout 21: Indeterminate Certainties		Schutz A Machiavelli N Lakoff G Kagarlitsky B Vattimo G
3	Handout 22: Language		Barthes R Saussure F de Hawkes T Guiraud P Peirce C S Jencks C, 1977 Lavin S Lawson B Summerson J Kitchen R Freundschuh S (eds) Lynch K Tolman E C Piaget J
4	Handout 23: Behaviour		Altman I Blakemore C Broadbent G Downs R M Stea D Gibson J J Goffman E Goleman D Hall E T Hillier B Rapoport A
5	Handout 24: The Visible Hand
6	Handout 25: The Four Humours
7	Handout 26: Hysterical Structures
8	Handout 27: Culture
9	Handout 28: Epistemic Shifts
10	Review
Module 7: CCVII		Course Book	Back to top
1	Handout 29: Vienna Circle Click right for handout Click below for a 5-page introduction		Maturana H R Plato Bleicher
2	Handout 30: Frankfurt School		Kellner D Marcuse H
3	Handout 31: Husserl and Phenomenology		Dreyfus H L Moran D and Mooney T
4	Handout 32: Ricoeur and Habermas		Ricoeur P Habermas J
5	Handout 33: Machiavelli and Hobbes		Machiavelli N Peters R
6	Handout 34: Leo Strauss		Tanguay D Damasio A R
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Book List in Alphabetical Order ( * indicates that purchase is advantageous)			Back to top
*	Addis B, Building, Phaidon Press, 2007	(4-page excerpt)	CCI (Essential) Common Source
	Aitchison J, 1989, The Articulate Mammal, Routledge, 1996		CCVI (Essential)
	Altman I, the Environment and Social Behaviour, Monterey, Brooks Cole, 1975		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Anderson J A, 1996, Communication Theory, New York, The Guilford Press		CCVI (Essential)
	Arendt H, The Human Condition, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1969		CCII (Essential)
	Bachelard G, The Poetics of Space, Boston, Beacon Press, 1964	(8-page excerpt)	CCI (Essential)
	Bakhtin, Mikhail. Toward a Philosophy of the Act. Ed. Vadim Liapunov and Michael Holquist. Trans. Vadim Liapunov. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1993		CCIII (Mentioned)
*	Baird G, The Space of Appearance, Cambridge Ma; London, MIT Press, 2003		CCI (Essential) CCII (Essential) CCIII (Essential) Common Source
	Barthes R, Elements of Semiology, New York, Hill and Wang, 1968		CCIII (Mentioned) CCVI (Mentioned)
	Berthoz A, The Brain’s Sense of Movement, Harvard University Press, 2000		CCI (Mentioned)
	Blakemore C, How the Environment Helps Build the Brain, In – Cartledge B (ed), Mind Brain and Environment, Oxford University Press, 1998, pp.28-55		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Bleicher J, Contemporary Hermeneutics, London and new York, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1980	(2-page excerpt)	CCVII (Mentioned)
	Broadbent G, 1975, Design in Architecture, David Fulton, London, 1988		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Buber M, Between Man and Man, Fontana Library, Glasgow and London, 1961 (1947)	(11-page excerpt)	CCII (Mentioned)
	Canguilhem G, 1966, The Normal and the Pathological, Zone Books, New York, 1989 See also the introduction to this book by M Foucault		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Cohen G A, Karl Marx’s Theory of History, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1984	(3-page excerpt)	CCVI (Mentioned)
	Damasio A R, Looking for Spinoza, London, Vintage, 2004		CCVII (Mentioned)
	Dawkins R, The Blind Watchmaker, Penguin Books, 1991		CCI (Mentioned)
	Downs R M Stea D, 1973, Image and Environment, Edward Arnold, UK		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Dreyfus H L, Husserl Intentionality and Cognitive Science, Bradford MIT Press, Cambridge + London, 1982 Dreyfus H L, Being in the World, Cambridge Massachusetts and London England, MIT Press, 1997		CCVII (Mentioned)
	Foucault M, The Archaeology of Knowledge, Tavistock, London, 1972 translation by Sheridan Smith, 1977 Foucault's paper is the introduction to: Canguilhem G, The Normal and the Pathological	(4-page excerpt)	CCVI (Mentioned)
	Frampton K, Labour Work and Architecture, Phaidon Press Ltd, 2002		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Gelernter M, Sources of Architectural Form, Manchester and New York, Manchester University Press, 1995	(1-page excerpt)	CCI (Essential) CCIII (Essential) CCVI (Essential)
	Gibson J J, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception, Lawrence Erlbaum Assocs, London, New Jersey, 1986		CCI (Essential) CCVI (Mentioned)
	Goffman E, Behaviour in Public Places, Free Press, 1966	(10-page excerpt)	CCI (Mentioned) CCVI (Mentioned)
	Goleman D, Emotional Intelligence, Bloomsbury, 1996		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Guiraud P, Semiology, London;Henley;Boston, Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1978		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Habermas J, 1990, Justification and Application, Polity Press, Cambridge, 1993		CCVII (Mentioned)
	Hall E T, The Hidden Dimension,, Bodley Head, 1966		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Hays K ed, 1998, Architectural Theory Since 1968, MIT Press, 2000		CCVI (Essential)
	Hawkes T, Structuralism and Semiotics, London, Routledge, 1992		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Hearn. F, Ideas That Shaped Buildings. MIT. MA. 2003		CCII (Mentioned)
	Hillier B, Space is the Machine, Cambridge University Press, 1996		CCVI (Mentioned)
*	Inglis D; Hughson J, Confronting Culture, Cambridge, Polity, 2003		CCIII (Essential) Common Source
	Jammer M, Concepts of Space, Harvard Uni Press, 1969		CCIII (Mentioned)
	Jencks C, 1977, The Language of Post Modern Architecture, Academy Editions, London		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Kagarlitsky B, The Return of Radicalism, London and other places, Pluto Press, 2000		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Kellner D, Herbert Marcuse and the Vicissitudes of Critical Theory (Kellner's introduction to: Marcuse H, Towards a Critical Theory of Society, London, Routledge, 2001)	(2-page excerpt)	CCVII (Mentioned)
	Kitchen R Freundschuh S (eds), Cognitive Mapping, Routledge, 2000	(2-page excerpt)	CCVI (Mentioned)
	Kurokawa K, The Philosophy of Symbiosis, London, Academy Editions, 1994	(2-page excerpt)	CCVI (Mentioned)
	Lakoff G, Moral Politics, Chicago and London, Uni of Chicago Press, 2002		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Lavin S, Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture, MIT Press, 1992		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Lawson B, The Language of Space, Architectural Press, 2001		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Leach N, Rethinking Architecture, Routledge, 1997		Common Source
	Leader D. Groves J, Introducing Lacan, Cambridge UK, Icon Books, 1995		CCVI (Essential)
	Legates R T and Stout F, The City Reader, London and New York, Routledge, 2007 (reprinted with new editorial)		Common Source
	Lynch K, The Image of the City, Cambridge USA, MIT Press, 1960		CCIII (Mentioned) CCVI (Mentioned)
	Machiavelli N, The Prince, Penguin, 1981		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Mallgrave H F, Architectural Theory Vol.1, Oxford UK and other places, Blackwell, 2006		CCVI (Essential) Common Source
	Marcuse H, The New Left and the 1960's, Routledge, 2004	(1-page excerpt)	CCVII (Mentioned)
	Maturana H R and Varela F J, The Tree of Knowledge, Shambhula, Boston & London, 1998	(6-page excerpt)	CCVII (Mentioned)
	Merleau Ponty M, The World of Perception, London, Routledge, 2004		CCI (Essential)
	Moran D and Mooney T, The Phenomenology Reader, London and New York, Routledge, 2002	(14-page excerpt)	CCIII (Essential)
	Neisser U, Concepts and Conceptual Developments, Cambridge UP, 1984		CCIII (Mentioned)
	Norman D A, Design of Everyday Things, Doubleday, 1990		CCI (Essential)
	Peirce C S, 1931, Elements of Logic – Collected Papers Vol II, Belnap Press, Massachusetts, 1960		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Peters R, Hobbes, London, Peregrine Books, 1967		CCVII (Mentioned)
	Piaget J, (1968), Structuralism, London, Routledge and Keegan Paul, 1971		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Plamenatz, Man and Society, Longmans 1963	(2-page excerpt)	CCIII (Mentioned)
	Plato, Theaitetos (part), London, J M Dent & sons, Tr.Warrington J, 1961	(4-page excerpt)	CCVII (Mentioned)
	Prigogene I, Time and the laws of Nature, IN, The Physical Nature of Consciousness, Van Loocke P [ed], Amsterdam and Phhiladelphia, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2001	(1-page excerpt)	CCI (Mentioned)
	Rapoport A, The Meaning of the Built Environment, London; new Delhi, Sage, 1982		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Ricoeur P, The Conflict of interpretations : essays in hermeneutics, London, Continuum Publishing Group, 2004		CCVII (Mentioned)
	Saussure F de, 1911, Course in General Linguistics, Duckworth, 1983		CCIII (Mentioned) CCVI (Mentioned)
	Schutz A, On Phenomenology and Social Relations, Wagner H (ed), University of Chicago Press, 1975		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Scott G, The Architecture of Humanism, New York London, W W Norton, 1999/1974	(16-page excerpt)	CCIII (Mentioned)
	Shaw, G B, The Sanity of Art,	(8-page excerpt)	CCII (Mentioned)
	Stevenson L, Seven Theories of Human Nature, Oxford Uni Press, 1987		CCIII (Mentioned)
	Summerson J, The Classical Language of Architecture, London, Thames Hudson, 1980		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Tanguay D, Leo Strauss, New Haven Conn, London, Yale UP	(2-page excerpt)	CCVII (Mentioned)
	Thompson B, Architectural Hermeneutics XIII: The Missing Link, IN, Crossing Boundaries, Craig T (ed), Scott Sutherland School, Aberdeen, 2003, pp.27-34		CCII (Essential)
	Tolman E C, Purposeful Behaviour in Animals and Men, Appleton Century, New York, 1932		CCVI (Mentioned)
	Vattimo G, 1985/1988, The End of Modernity, Cambridge, Polity Press		CCVI (Mentioned)
* (a)	Warburton N, The Basics of Essay Writing, London and new York, Routledge, 2007		CCV (Essential) Common Source
* (b)	Warburton N, Thinking From A-Z III, London and new York, Routledge, 2007		CCV (Essential) Common Source
	Watkin D, Morality and Architecture Revisited, London, John Murray, 2001	(15-page excerpt)	CCIII (Mentioned)
	Weibenson D, Theory and Practice from Alberti to Ledoux, Arch. Publications, 1982		CCVI (Essential)
	Wines J, Green Architecture, Taschen, Koln, 2000		CCI (Essential)
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