AH547 THEORIES OF HISTORY II: VISUALITY. SPATIALITY AND MATERIALITY
Course Content
The modern era has come to be seen as dominated by the sense of sight. Along those lines. in the last decades from literary criticism and film studies to feminism and visual studies. a vast literature has developed that probes vision and visuality in relation to arts. culture and social life. Scholars from different fields. including art history. elucidated the vision-based nature of different practices and disciplines. In this course. we explore architecture vis-à-vis visuality. After acquainting ourselves with different positions on visuality. we probe architecture with conceptual tools coming from the field of visuality. We focus on instances of "ocular-centric" architectures from different periods. be it an attitude on the part of the architect. the nature of specific architectures. or the engagement of any visual medium including photography and film in the creation and dissemination of architecture.
