Contemporary Archtecture 1960 -200x

Lecture series 2008/09 Prof. Njiric

• interchange

• industrial archipelago

• terminals

• interface

• strategies of the void

• generic city

• mobility (vs. proximity)

• „labyrinthine clarity“ and the apotheosis of structuralism

• housing and the legacy of europan

• agents of transformation and the death of urbanism

• bigness and the problem of quantity

• preeminence of decorated shed

• dead space

• death of the facade / surfaces

• complex program - a hybrid condition

• louis kahn and the monumentalization of ego (+ movie)

• the new fringe

• density

• indeterminacy

• event (situationist' legacy)

• diagrammatic thinking

• beauty and sublime (theories of ugly, AA, meuwissen)

• everydayness

• on the art of substraction

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