Research Methods in the History and Theory of Architecture
Seminar für Doktorierende (064-0013-20)
Veranstalter: Doctoral Program
Dozierende: Dr. Irina Davidovici
Zeit: HS20, Donnerstag, 13.45–15.30
Ort: ONLINE (Meeting ID: 957 8635 1778)
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Programme
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Course description
The seminar course prepares the doctoral students for their Research Plan submission at the end of their first year. The weekly seminar will frame group discussions on a variety of topics, group presentations, and preparatory exercises. Students are encouraged to consider the course readings not only in terms of their content, but also as illustrations of formatting, structuring and argumentation methods, that can serve as research models.
There are four types of seminar classes. Toolkit classes focus on the individual components of the Research Plan: abstract, hypothesis, literature survey, research structure etc. Method classes cover research strategies and disciplinary traditions relevant for doctoral studies in the history and theory of architecture. Theory seminars focus on specific intellectual traditions and their comparison. The in-seminar Review sessions, leading up to the formal end-of-semester Doctoral Reviews with external guests, comprise work-in-progress presentations and peer-review appraisals.
Aims and Objectives
The two-semester course in the first year of the doctoral program in the history and theory of architecture has a twofold objective: First, method sessions on central approaches in the history and theory of architecture provide a methodological basis for the doctorate at the Institute gta. Secondly, in toolkit and review sessions, the doctoral students get support for their individual research projects and guidance for the production of the Research Plan they have to present at the end of the first year.
Readings
WEEK 1 (October 1 2020) Introductory Overview
WEEK 2 (October 8 2020) Theory: The Production of Culture
WEEK 3 (October 14 2020) Library BAU-BIB introductory tour (online and in person, 16.00-17.00) more info in Programme
WEEK 3 (October 15 2020) Corpus: The Library and the Archive
WEEK 4 (October 29 2020) Corpus: Artefacts in Time
WEEK 5 (November 05 2020) Toolkit 1: Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review
Guest lecture and discussion with Nitin Bathla: ‘Designing Research: Finding a method in the madness’
WEEK 6 (November 12 2020) Corpus: Artefacts in Society
WEEK 7 (November 19 2020) Toolkit 2: Referencing: Text and Footnotes
Veranstalter: Doctoral Program
Dozierende: Dr. Irina Davidovici
Zeit: HS20, Donnerstag, 13.45–15.30
Ort: ONLINE (Meeting ID: 957 8635 1778)
[pic-20200922-002418-z603.jpg]
Programme
enter online class
Course description
The seminar course prepares the doctoral students for their Research Plan submission at the end of their first year. The weekly seminar will frame group discussions on a variety of topics, group presentations, and preparatory exercises. Students are encouraged to consider the course readings not only in terms of their content, but also as illustrations of formatting, structuring and argumentation methods, that can serve as research models.
There are four types of seminar classes. Toolkit classes focus on the individual components of the Research Plan: abstract, hypothesis, literature survey, research structure etc. Method classes cover research strategies and disciplinary traditions relevant for doctoral studies in the history and theory of architecture. Theory seminars focus on specific intellectual traditions and their comparison. The in-seminar Review sessions, leading up to the formal end-of-semester Doctoral Reviews with external guests, comprise work-in-progress presentations and peer-review appraisals.
Aims and Objectives
The two-semester course in the first year of the doctoral program in the history and theory of architecture has a twofold objective: First, method sessions on central approaches in the history and theory of architecture provide a methodological basis for the doctorate at the Institute gta. Secondly, in toolkit and review sessions, the doctoral students get support for their individual research projects and guidance for the production of the Research Plan they have to present at the end of the first year.
Readings
WEEK 1 (October 1 2020) Introductory Overview
WEEK 2 (October 8 2020) Theory: The Production of Culture
- Horkheimer and Adorno, ‘The Culture Industry’ (1944)
- Raymond Williams, ‘Keywords’
- Pierre Bourdieu, ‘The Forms of Capital’ (1986)
WEEK 3 (October 14 2020) Library BAU-BIB introductory tour (online and in person, 16.00-17.00) more info in Programme
WEEK 3 (October 15 2020) Corpus: The Library and the Archive
- Michelle T. King, ‘Working With/In the Archives’ (2011)
- Walter Benjamin, ‘Unpacking My Library: A Talk about Book Collecting’, in Illuminations (1969)
- Michel Foucault, 'The Historical a priori and the Archive’, in The Archaeology of Knowledge (1972)
- Jacques Derrida, ‘Note’, in Archive Fever (1994)
WEEK 4 (October 29 2020) Corpus: Artefacts in Time
- Stanford Anderson, ‘Types and Conventions in Time: Toward a History for the Duration and Change of Artifacts’ (1982)
- Stephan Trüby, ‘Corridor’, in Elements of Architecture (2014).
WEEK 5 (November 05 2020) Toolkit 1: Annotated Bibliography and Literature Review
Guest lecture and discussion with Nitin Bathla: ‘Designing Research: Finding a method in the madness’
- M. K. Simon, ‘Writing an Annotated Bibliography’ (2011)
- Groat and Wang, ‘Literature Review’ Chapter 5 (2013)
WEEK 6 (November 12 2020) Corpus: Artefacts in Society
- Svetlana Alpers, ‘Is Art History?’ (1977)
- Raymond Williams, ‘Developments in The Sociology of Culture’ (1976)
- Arnold Hauser, ‘The Sociological Approach: The Concept of Ideology in the History of Art’ (1959)
- + excerpts ‘The Social History of Art’ (1951) 1 and 2
WEEK 7 (November 19 2020) Toolkit 2: Referencing: Text and Footnotes
- Anthony Grafton, ‘The footnote. A Curious History’ (excerpts) Intro and Epilogue
- Exercise : Reconstituting text from subtext
