Description
In the latter half of the twentieth century, a dialogue began between architects and continental philosophers that continues to this day. In this course we will focus on three key philosophers and how they were taken up into architecture. We begin with Martin Heidegger, a controversial but essential thinker, and the reaction to his thought in Christian Norberg-Schulz's book Genius Loci. Next up is Jacques Derrida, whose work is distilled for architects in Mark Wigley's The Architecture of Deconstruction. Finally we will turn to Gilles Deleuze, with a focus on the Deleuzean architectural criticism of Sanford Kwinter collected in Far From Equilibrium.