ASSESSMENT - Online Debate
In weeks 2-4 of semester, we will be covering three "foundational" themes: Interiority, Dwelling, and Sacred Space. For this piece of assessment, you are to take ONE of these themes and form an original argument around one of the tutorial questions:
- Interiority: What is interiority?
- Dwelling: What is the relationship between humans and space?
- Sacred Space: What is a sacred space?
To frame your argument, use either two precedents that we have discussed in class or two precedents that you have sourced from Ching, Jarzombek and Prakash's A Global History of Architecture (see bibliography for details). As in a debate, your discussion of these two examples should provide two different (though not necessarily opposing) perspectives on this question. Focus your analysis of these examples on their interiors and remember to incorporate references to both the relevant weekly readings as well as additional research.
Include diagrams tor images to illustrate your ideas. See books by Simon Unwin in the bibliography for examples of how to do this. Start reading and researching early to avoid last minute panic!
Readings -
1. Author: Heidegger, Martin
Chapter Title Building dwelling thinking
Book title: Basic writings from Being and time (1927) to The task of thinking (1964)
2. Chapter Authors: Hartzell, Freyja
Chapter Title The velvet touch : fashion, furniture, and the fabric of the interior
Book title: Interior design and architecture : critical and primary sources : vol. 2
3. Chapter Authors: Benjamin, Walter
Chapter Title Louis-Philippe or the interior
Book title: Interior design and architecture : critical and primary sources ; vol. 1
4. Curtain Wars
Architects, Decorators, and the 20th-Century Domestic Interior,(1) by Joel Sanders
Assignment Files -
https://www.dropbox.com/s/szbkh90yj0f8kk6/Assignment%20Files.zip?dl=0