Course Code：MS001239
Course Name：Western Classical Architecture and Modern Design Thinking
Course Name in Chinese：西方古典建筑与现代设计思维
Credit：1
Course Introduction：
Design in architecture always works with light and geometry. Metaphor is no less important, although it is less often discussed. The importance of all three can be seen in architecture throughout the world and throughout history, in the early period of western architecture in ancient Greece and the modern and post-modern periods. Of course other design topics also play important roles in design thinking and will be examined in this course: structural and ornamental analysis, proportions, relationships to the landscape and topography, and the origin and meanings of elements, such as the orders, understood metaphorically as anthropic and vegetal bodies. As such, they have served as catalysts in design that opened new venues for the discipline’s future. Pioneers of modern and postmodern architecture were not an exception.
The goal of the course is twofold:
1) to cultivate design thinking by providing insights on how selected seminal architects of the late-19th and 20th centuries, from varied standpoints, challenged the architectural status quo of their time by engaging the ancient Greek temple and its Orders through themes, such as: structure and ornament, structural and spatial articulation, tectonics/topography, color/light/shadow, monumentality, meaning/metaphor/symbol, and,
2) by exploring the Greek temple’s and its Orders’ meaning during the Archaic and Classical periods (8th- 4th centuries B.C.) of ancient Greece to set up an explanation of how this understanding can enrich design thinking today. Along with texts from architects and architectural historians, as well as ancient Greek material culture and literature, readings from the fields of archaeology and the Classical studies will be examined.
Course Introduction in Chinese：
建筑的设计始终与光线和几何相伴。隐喻，尽管较少被提及，其重要性同样不容忽视。这三者在世界范围内、贯穿历史的建筑中皆可窥见——从西方建筑早期源头的古希腊，到现代与后现代时期。当然，其他设计议题在设计思维中也扮演关键角色并将在本课程中被探讨：对结构与装饰的分析、比例、景观及地形中的关系，以及构件（如柱式）的起源与含义——它们被理解为人形与植物形体的隐喻。这些议题是设计的催化剂，为学科的未来开辟新路径。现代与后现代建筑的先驱亦不例外。
本课程的目标有二：
1）通过洞察十九世纪末至二十世纪若干开创性建筑师如何从不同立场借助古希腊神庙及其柱式，挑战彼时建筑现状，从而培养设计思维；涉及的主题包括：结构与装饰、结构与空间表达、构造/地形、色彩/光线/阴影、纪念性、意义/隐喻/象征；
2）通过探究古希腊神庙及其柱式在古风与古典时期（公元前八至四世纪）的含义，建立一种理解，阐明这种理解如何丰富今日的设计思维。除建筑师与建筑史学者的文本、古希腊物质文化与文学外，课程亦将研读考古学与古典研究领域的材料。
Course Director：
安东尼奥·托迪斯
Antonios Thodis
巴卡漫画 建筑国际化示范学院，助理教授
Assistant Professor of the Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School of Southeast University
Coordinating Teacher：王逸凡 WANG Yifan
Course Level：Master program
Semester Offered：Autumn Semester
