Topic: Modern Dialectics – Ornamentation vs. Functionality
Order Description
The essay is 1200-1500 words with images.
* Pick a title that describes your particular investigation, not just the general theme/opposition. *
**Brief**
– Development of modern dialectics in the twentieth century. a dialectical tension found in twentieth
century architectural production, as demonstrated within the lectures and discussions: Ornamentation vs. Functionality.
– Each thematic position suggested has been shaped on apparent differences around important themes that have directed architectural debates in the 20th century. They are not specific to certain time periods; the opposing ideas cut across the whole of the twentieth century, and may be found at any point – and they sometimes share as well as differ. Rather than exploring the whole theme, your essay will choose and discuss particular buildings, the methods and ideas of
particular architects, the writings of particular critics and theorists, and your own skills of framing the varied positions, to make a SPECIFIC comment on one of these tensions, using SPECIFIC case studies ( around 2 case studies ) and critical points of view. The idea is to make your argument through the ideas shared by specific buildings, practices, architects or positions – rather than
describing a chapter of history.
You will be required to use, to a sufficient degree of sophistication for academic students:
− theoretical sources to discuss the ideological positions
− historical sources in order to construct narrative contexts
− visual sources to direct and evidence your arguments.
– Please look at Adolf Loos’s essay: Ornament and Crime and also john ruskin as references.
***More details and structures of the essay brief is uploaded in the additional file, please check.***
