Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Contemporary Architecture (17.ASO34)

Native organizations units: Department of Architecture and Urban Planning

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Scene Architecture, Technique and Design (Year: 4, Semester: Winter)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS	4

The objective of the subject is to familiarize students with the flow of ideas, theories and practices, as well as with projects and executed works of architects, town planners and artists at the end of the 20th and the beginning of 21st century, at home and abroad, through a cultural, historical, philosophical, socio-economic and political perspective.

Students will be able to locate and synthesize different concepts, subjects, projects and works of architecture within wider social, historical, philosophical, cultural and artistic contexts in contemporary times. Students are trained in searching and creative usage of literature on the history and theory of contemporary architecture, reading specialized magazines and publications on contemporary architecture, analyzing video materials and records and following architectural exhibitions, journalism and publishing. They are trained to view the man-made environment in its entirety and adequately formulate their own critical and analytical observations, positions and knowledge about contemporary architecture.

The subject researches architecture and town planning from the end of the 20th century to the present. The program addresses the city as the context of architecture, as well as the city and architecture in the 21st century, with all the phenomena characterizing architecture today, in our country and in the world - spectacularization, new materials, digital technologies, ecological architecture, new ways of living etc.

Lecturers, discussions, presentations.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Vidler, Anthony	Architecture: Between Spectacle and Use	2008	Yale University Press & Clark Art Institute	English
Hartoonian, Gevork	Modernity and Its Other - A Post-Script to Contemporary Architecture	1997	Texas A&M University Press	English
Hendrix, Shannon John	Architecture and Psychoanalysis - Peter Eisenman and Jacques Lacan	2008	Peter Lang Publishing, New York	English
Leach; Neil	Digital Cities	2009	Academy Press	English