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Spacial Contruction of Meaning 1/2

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Course Description

This course explores the use of diagrams and metaphors in addressing problems of representation, translation and reconstruction across two different symbolic media: language and architecture. The texts chosen as departure points for our work -- Virgil's Aeneid and Ovid's Metamorphoses -- have provided both narrative and aesthetic foundations for western art for almost two thousand years. Throughout our work we will seek to capture aspects of their meaning by proposing architectural constructs: design concepts, diagrams, drawings or models.

Course Texts

• Ovid, The Metamorphoses translated by Allen Mandelbaum (New York: Harvest Books, 1995)
• Alexander C, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967).
• Deleuze G, Guattari F, What is Philosophy? (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
• Eisenman P, Diagram Diaries (New York: Universe Publishing, 1999)
• Gombrich E., Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Visual Representation (Princeton University Press, 2000)
• Goodman N, Languages of Art (Hackett Publishing Co, 1976
• Lakoff G, Johnson M, Philosophy in the Flesh (New York: Basic Books, 1999
• Piranesi, G. (H Levit, ed). Views of Rome, Then and Now (New York: Dover Publications)
• Stafford B M, 2000, Visual Analogy: Consciousness as the Art of Connecting (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)