Abstract
This paper documents student experiences in the contemporary architecture course and their critical reinterpretation of architecture from the modern era to the present day. Different built and unbuilt houses by influential architects from early, established, and late modern eras to critical modernism and contemporary situations for diverse geographical diffusion are examined. The selections were re-interpreted by students in groups of three using a genealogical approach. Their efforts produced a matrix highlighting the common features developed throughout these periods, while also highlighting qualities and features of housing design that were either excluded, neglected, or marginalized during those eras. Then by analyzing the reasons for that neglect, students developed conceptual designs for residential alternatives. Each includes interpretations of erased pasts, alternative contemporary situations, and possible futures via the negation of existence as such and the feasibility of implementing these alternatives on a neighborhood scale. The deep structure of this course was an objective exercise in transitioning from education to architectural pedagogy, utilizing research-based design as its theoretical framework. It further developed students’ analytical discourse by emphasizing genealogy over typology and promoting concrete understanding and critical reinterpretation of design history, thereby moving away from reinterpreting history only as an abstract phenomenon. Given this scope and schedule, clearly varied content, and the significant involvement of students, this study is clearly oriented toward diagrams, drawings, and illustrations, not text. Visual elements offer full, direct, and explicit expression, clear concept processing, and effective compilation of the students’ research findings.
Presenters
Arash BasiratFaculty Member, Department of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Fars, Iran
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Genealogical Approach, Pedagogy, Research-based Design, Critical Reinterpretation of House
