The Architectural and design histories studies 1. course aims to provide a theoretical and historical base for the exploration of the complex intellectual field of architecture, what Manfredo Tafuri calles "the cosmos of architecture". The seminars and lectures aim to significantly widen the somewhat limited horizon offered by the chronological, cumulative histories of architectual syles and technological developement. Trough intensive reading, collecitve interpretation and personal writing practice the students discover the main paradigms, junctures, theoretical, aesthetic, economical and political conflicts of architectural and urban thinking. The lectures are focusing on the problematic notion of modernity in architecture, disassociating it from a normative and stylistic discourse, and reveal the dialectical role of ideologies invented, perfected and promoted either consciously or unconsciously by architectual thinking in modern societies.
