Research in Architecture: Architectural Design - Space - Culture: Courses

Courses:


Specialization A1: Theory of Knowledge in Architecture

 

Compulsory courses

1. Architecture as a Field of Research I: On the Conceptual Framework and Body of Research

2. Architecture as a Field of Research II: On the Conceptual Framework and Body of Research by Design

Elective courses

(students must choose 6 electives from groups a,b & c)
a. Investigating Architectural Knowledge

- Analysis of the Written and Designed Architectural Discourse

- Philosophy and Science in the 20th Century

- The Methodology of Philosophical Research: Constructions and Control

- The Relationship of Architecture and Technology in a Historical Perspective

- History of Contemporary Architecture

- Phenomenological Perspectives on Place. An Attempt Toward a Conceptual Clarification of a Complex Phenomenon

- Spatial transformations, European identities and the modern-Greek priblic

b. In-Depth probe into Architectural Knowledge

- On Architectural Knowledge: Philosophical Investigations into Architecture considered as Cognitive, Aesthetic and Ethical Constitution of Architectural Works

- Experience, Representation and Social Meaning of Space

- The Concept of Space as Expressed in the Plastic Arts:  Opening the Imaginary Field (Origin-Sojourn-Mnemosyne-Melancholy): The Imaginary Museum

- Hypothetical Installations

- Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics

 -History and Theory of Landscape: Schematization as a Means for the Interpretation of Landscape

c. The Presentation of Architectural Knowledge

- Sustainable Design

- Conceptual Approaches to Design Problems: Theoretical and Practical Study of Spatial Questions

- Issues of Urban Design and Housing: "Housing"

- Liquid Modernity: Interior Space between the Boundary and the Object

- Contemporary Theories and Applications in Design Ι:  Ecology, sustainability, participation

- Contemporary Theories and Applications in Design IΙ:  Ecology, sustainability, participation

- The Western Paradigm as Ideology for Organizing Museum Spaces. Designing Museum and Exhibitions

- New technologies in the design of complex infrastructure systems with focus on airports

 


Specialization A2: Advanced issues of Architectural Design

 

Compulsory courses

1. Architecture as a Field of Research I: On the Conceptual Framework and Body of Research

2. Architecture as a Field of Research II: On the Conceptual Framework and Body of Research by Design

 

Elective courses

(students must choose 4 electives from groups a,b & c and 2 electives from d)
a. Investigating Architectural Knowledge

- Analysis of the Written and Designed Architectural Discourse

- Philosophy and Science in the 20th Century

- The Methodology of Philosophical Research: Constructions and Control

- The Relationship of Architecture and Technology in a Historical Perspective

- History of Contemporary Architecture

- Phenomenological Perspectives on Place. An Attempt Toward a Conceptual Clarification of a Complex Phenomenon

- Spatial transformations, European identities and the modern-Greek priblic

b. In-Depth probe into Architectural Knowledge

- On Architectural Knowledge: Philosophical Investigations into Architecture considered as Cognitive, Aesthetic and Ethical Constitution of Architectural Works

- Experience, Representation and Social Meaning of Space

- The Concept of Space as Expressed in the Plastic Arts:  Opening the Imaginary Field (Origin-Sojourn-Mnemosyne-Melancholy): The Imaginary Museum

- Hypothetical Installations

- Theoretical and Applied Aesthetics

 -History and Theory of Landscape: Schematization as a Means for the Interpretation of Landscape

c. The Presentation of Architectural Knowledge

- Sustainable Design

- Conceptual Approaches to Design Problems: Theoretical and Practical Study of Spatial Questions

- Issues of Urban Design and Housing: "Housing"

- Liquid Modernity: Interior Space between the Boundary and the Object

- Contemporary Theories and Applications in Design Ι:  Ecology, sustainability, participation

- Contemporary Theories and Applications in Design IΙ:  Ecology, sustainability, participation

- The Western Paradigm as Ideology for Organizing Museum Spaces. Designing Museum and Exhibitions

- New technologies in the design of complex infrastructure systems with focus on airports

d. Architectural Knowledge by Design

- Urban Design of Museums and Exhibitions

- Conceptual Design of the City: Voids - Landscapes - Archives

- Design by Research, Mutational Approaches of the Athenian Postwar Urban Blocks

- The Architectural Synthesis in an Extended Field: ‘Limits’ and ‘Fragments’ in the Urban Space

- Teaching methods linking theory to practice in architectural composition, as manifested by eminent Schools of Architecture

- Real, Imaginary and Hidden Urban Landscapes

- Architectural Composition of Landscape: Natural and Cultural Qualities in Landscape Design