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In-semester consultation of the interpretation of architectural work using the method of close reading in the form of text (essay, article, study) or textual-visual work (lecture, installation, exhibition) which is presented at the end of the semester.

Evaluation is based on active participation in the lectures and seminars, interim consultations, and final presentation of the interpretation text (essay, article, study), or textual-visual work (lecture, installation, exhibition).

Semester block schedule:
I. Introduction: Scientific interpretation of architectural work: method of critical close reading of architecture of the 20th century, as it was formulated by Peter Eisenman in the books „Giuseppe Terragni – Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques“ and „Ten Canonical Buildings“
Examples 1–2: Giuseppe Terragni: Casa del Fascio / Profiles of text: Luigi Moretti, Casa „Il Girasole“, 1947–1950. Assignment
II. Examples 3–4: The Umbrella Diagram: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Farnsworth House, 1946–1951 / Textual heresies: Le Corbusier, Palais des Congrès-Strasbourg, 1962–1964. Questions, discussion, and consultations of assignments
III. Examples 5–6: From plaid grid to diachronic space: Louis I. Kahn, Adler House and DeVore House, 1954–1955 / The nine-square diagram and its contradictions: Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House, 1959–1964. Questions, discussion, and consultations of assignments
IV. Examples 7–8: Material inversions: James Stirling, Leicester Engineering Building, 1959–1963 / Texts of analogy: Aldo Rossi, Cemetery of San Cataldo, 1971–1978. Questions, discussion, and consultations of assignments
V. Examples 9–10: Strategies of the void: Rem Koolhaas, Jussieu Libraries, 1992–1993 / The deconstruction of the axis: Daniel Libeskind, Jewish Museum, 1989–1999. Questions, discussion, and consultations of assignments
VI. Examples 11–13: The soft umbrella diagram: Frank O. Gehry, Peter B. Lewis Building, 1997–2002. Presentation of student interpretations. Discussion and evaluation

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To gain knowledge of scientific interpretation of architecture using the close reading method. Theoretical and practical experience with interpreting architectural work using this method on the basis of lectures, seminars, consultations and individual study of architectural works and literature.

Active participation, in-semester consultations, presentation of the interpretation and evaluation. Absences will be compensated on a different date as agreed with the students.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.

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EISENMAN, Peter: Giuseppe Terragni. Trasformations, Decompositions, Critiques. New York: The Monacelli Press, 2003 a EISENMAN, Peter (auth.) – LOURIE, Ariane (ed.): Ten Canonical Buildings: 1950-2000. New York: Rizzoli, 2008. (CS)
MITÁŠOVÁ, Monika (ed.): Oxymorón a Pleonasmus. Texty kritické a projektivní architektury. Praha: Zlatý řez, 2011. (CS)
MITÁŠOVÁ, Monika: Interpretačné situácie: Interpretácia a metainterpretácia súčasnej architektúry. Praha: FA ČVUT, 2018. (CS)
ZERVAN, Marian – MITÁŠOVÁ, Monika: Za a proti interpretácii. In: Interpretačné metódy v architektúre (učební texty). Dostupné na: http://filozofia.truni.sk/userdata/publications/zervan_mitasova_interpretation_ukazka.pdf (CS)

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