Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Discourses in Architecture (17.A903)

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Architecture (Year: 1, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS	8

The aim of the course is to direct students to the basics of creating their own scientific research discourse in accordance with the current development of architecture as a discipline, through consideration, understanding, analysis and application of segments of intuitive and transdisciplinary influences of correlating disciplines. Through independent work within the course, students will develop the ability to comprehend a wide spectrum of the influence of existing dominant discourses on their own research. By developing an interdisciplinary dialogue students will be able to contextualize their research work.

Interpretation of spatial phenomena through the discourse; Ability to recognize qualitative information about the architecture through employing the methodologies of correlating disciplines and discourses, and reinterpreting them in the framework of the students' independent research. Developing critical attitude and discourse in the domain of interdisciplinary interpretations.

Discourses in architecture and urbanism as theoretical and philosophical categories; Contextualization in relation to the broader spatial, social, economic, technological and political aspects; Interdisciplinary interpretations of spatial phenomena; Identifying and positioning a certain spatial phenomenon in other disciplines; Selection and formation of a relevant interdisciplinary framework for the consideration of a specific phenomenon; Reinterpretation of spatial phenomena; The cross-section of architectural and artistic discourse, and the interpretation of spatial interventions through the use of newer technologies.

Lectures; Workshops; Consultations

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Callinicos, A	The Resources of Critique	2006	Polity Press, Cambridge	English
Gregotti V.	Inside Architecture	1996	MIT Press Series in Contemporary Architectural Discourse	English
Leach, N	Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory	1997	Routledge, New York	English
Choi, S & K Richards	Interdisciplinary Discourse – Communicating Across Disciplines	2017	Palgrave Macmillan	English
De Landa, M	A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History	2000	Swerve, New York	English