Housing & Typology course (master)
Summary
Using a typology-focused approach, the three lecturers (Pr. Sophie Delhay, Pr. Luca Pattaroni, Pr. Eric Lapierre) will successively explore the major types to understand their historical origins, as well as their social and political aspirations and implications.
Contents
Taught by a sociologist and two practicing architects, one of whom is involved in historical research, this course is characterized by a multidisciplinary approach that enables it to address many of the dimensions that define the complexity of housing. The originality of the approach also lies in its typological focus, emphasizing the importance of form in all architectural issues, and in housing in particular. In this way, the relationship between use and formal organization, spatial appropriation, proportions and measurements, and the potential of a series of major rational housing types will be deconstructed and clarified. The courtyard building, the bar, the block and the flat will be successively investigated. They will be investigated in their own right, to understand their inner workings, raison d’être and performance, but also to clarify, from a historical perspective, the relationships between these types and how their modes of operation have evolved. Each teacher will give four sessions, but we insist that the whole constitutes a coherent whole and not a simple juxtaposition: the formal coherence is also, we hope, that of the course itself.