11247 Architectural History and Theory - Current Events and Debates - School of Architecture DAB-UTS

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Architecture Assignment :

Task :

The first should be an example from prior to 1968. These can be found either in Ulrich Conrad's Programmes and Manifestoes on 20th Century Architecture, London, Lund Humphries, 1964 or Tim Benton et al, Form and Function, a Source Book for the History of  Architecture and Design 1890-1939, London, Granada, 1975. The other two manifestoes can be selected from those included in Kate Nesbitt, Theorising a New Agenda for Architecture: An Anthology for Architectural Theory 1965-1995, Princeton, 1996, A. K. Sykes, Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993-2009,  Princeton, 2010, or K. M. Hayes, Architectural Theory Since 1968, MIT, 1998,

1. Analyse the manifesto for the structure and form of the language, ie. Does it use images? How are the sentences constructed? Are there other 'language-games’ set out in this document. Have the architects used other media used to present these ideas (find on Youtube etc)? What are the ‘mechanics’ of the text? How does this text form shape the message and content of the manifesto? What is the context of the manifesto- for who? Against what?
2.  Analyse the three manifestos in the form of visual ‘markups’ on the original manifesto documents. You should consider the implications and effects of various conventions of notation and annotation.