AR3004: Contemporary Processes in Architectural Design syllabus for B.Arch 2021 regulation (Professional Elective-I)

Contemporary Processes in Architectural Design detailed syllabus for Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the B.Arch students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.

For Bachelor of Architecture 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit B.Arch 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to B.Arch Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of contemporary processes in architectural design is as follows.

Course Objectives:

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Unit I

INTRODUCTION 7 Investigation of contemporary theories of media and their influence on the perception of space and architecture. Technology and art. Technology and architecture. Digital technology and architecture.

Unit II

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Unit III

CONTEMPORARY PROCESS 10 Emerging phenomena such as increasing formal and functional abstractions. Diagrams, diagrammatic reasoning, diagrams and design process. Animation and design. Digital hybrid.

Unit IV

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Unit V

CONTEMPORARY PROCESS AND ARCHITECTURAL WORKS 11 Ideas and works of architects related to contemporary processes. The architects to include Greg Lynn, Reiser + Umemotto, Lars Spuybroek / NOX Architects, UN studio, Diller Scofidio, Dominique Perrault, Decoi, Marcos Novak, Foreign Office Architects, Asymptote, Herzog and de Meuron, Neil Denari, Serie Architects, BIG Architects. Study to be undertaken in the form of assignments/discussions/seminars/presentations.

Course Outcomes:

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Text Books:

1. Walter Benjamin, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction’, in Illuminations, Schocken Books, New York, 1969
2. Ignaci de Sola Morales, Differences: Topographies of Contemporary Architecture’, MIT Press,1997.
3. William J Mitchell, ‘The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation and Cognition’, MIT Press, 1995.
4. Ali Rahim, ‘Contemporary Process in Architecture’, John Wiley and Sons, 2000.
5. Ali Rahim (Ed), ‘Contemporary Techniques in Architecture’, Halsted Press, 2002.
6. Peter Eisenmann; Diagram Diaries, Universe,1999.
7. Grey Lynn, ‘The Folded, The Pliant and The Supple, Animate form’, Princeton Arch. Press,1999.

Reference Books:

1. Gillian Hunt, ‘Architecture in the Cyberspace II’, John Wiley and Sons, 2001.
2. L. Convey et al, ‘Virtual Architecture’, Bats ford, 1995.
3. Rob Shields (ed.), ‘Cultures of the internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living bodies’,Sage, London, 1996.
4. John Beckman, ‘The Virtual Dimension, Architecture, Representation and Crash Culture’, Princeton Architecture Press, 1998.
5. William J Mitchell, City of Bits: Space, Place and the Infobahn’, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995.
6. Marcos Novak, ‘Invisible Architecture: An Installation for the Greek Pavilion’, Venice Biennale, 2000.

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