The Architectural Imagination: An Introduction

I've enrolled in my first online course: The Architectural Imagination, offered by the Harvard Graduate School of Design. I completed the first module, The Architectural Imagination: An Introduction. Like any college course, there are lectures, readings, and assignments. The opening lecture establishes the difference between a mere building and a work of architecture. The first instructor, K. Michael Hays, starts with Kant, which is good, then moves on to Gilles Deleuze. I had forgotten how opaque Deleuze could be. The first assignment was to analyze two structures and identify what makes them architectural. I will post my response to the assignment next.

Next up in the course is module two, Reading Architecture: Column and Wall. I'll post my responses to that module in the near future.

Comments

[Helen Searing]

Villa Savoye originally was NOT in an urban setting. And you were supposed to arrive by CAR - the proportions relate to the turning radius of an automobile.

[Richard Prouty]

Thanks, Helen, for pointing out that the Villa Savoye was supposed to be approached by car.

But doesn't that increase its isolation, its sense of separation?