Architecture in question : contemporary art and architecture (Part A)

8 credits

90.0 h

This biannual learning unit is being organized in 2018-2019

Teacher(s)

Marchant Pascal; Nottebaert Anne coordinator; Pouillon Henry;

Language

French

Main themes

This unit, taught by joint lecturers, explores the interactions between the arts and architecture. Architecture as art.
A series of theoretical lectures will look at the mutual relationships between the arts and architecture: how do paradigms (convergences of thought, accepted and internalised rules) pass through communities of artists and architects in a given period?
In parallel, students will test a contemporary artistic approach by asking questions and formulating a suggested response using the techniques and methods of action involved. This will make them reflect on architecture.
The objective is to create a space of relative freedom to open up possibilities at the conceptual level. And to enable students to understand artistic practice to find the drivers for a meaningful design.
The opportunities to link this issue to academic research particularly relate to the ability to deploy sensitivity (as a means of analysis and communication) to transmit meaning to the public arena. And, in this way, to look at architecture as an aesthetic act.
Using a contemporary issue, to take part in conceptual experimentation and to reintegrate it within the discipline.
Issues in Architecture: Contemporary Art and Architectureis made up of two parts, A and B.
A : XPRMTL. Experimental Architecture
How artists and architects work together through emerging ways of designing form which prefigure the ways of living in the future. How this enables their disciplines to revive?
(B : "Grasping reality", "another way of looking". Analysis and observation of reality. Ways of working in art and architecture.)

Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

The specific learning outcomes contribute to the learning outcomes reference network:

Test an artistic approach

To test and extend the limit of the imagination
To imagine drivers which can transform the perception of what is real

More specifically, students intuitively perceive the world through their imagination, through what they have learned before arriving at Master¿s level. They will set out their mental images and question them.

Make use of other subjects

Seek out other approaches, exchanges of views and ways of enhancing thinking about architecture
Interpret and synthesise the knowledge of other subjects
Make strategic use of other subjects to put into question the design and implementation of an architectural project
Bring all this back to the original discipline

More specifically, students will be able to

place and bring together artistic knowledge and practice.
identify periods in the history of classical, modern and contemporary art when the transfer between artistic disciplines has been particularly rich, How, at certain times, certain arts are ahead of others and how that develops (or is reversed).
understand current artistic issues and practices and strategically transform them into architectural design.
take or advance their knowledge of certain media such as drawing, graphic arts, video, digital imagery, dance, literature, music and certain artistic approaches (conceptual, documentary, expressionist etc.). From this experience, they will learn to make use of them in a conceptual process.
return to the discipline of architecture through introduction to research : the approach must be able to be communicated to an informed audience.

Express an architectural procedure

Identify the founding elements of a hypothesis or a proposal to express and communicate them
Test and use relevant means of communication in relation to the intended audience and the target objectives

More specifically, students will be able to

deploy sensitivity (as a means of analysis and communication) to transmit meaning to the public arena.

Making committed choices

Develop awareness of the political meaning of the work of an architect and his/her responsibility towards society
Make links between different methodological and epistemological perspectives
Imagine ambitious proposals which could call into question the choices made by society

In particular, students will be able to

implement an approach, a process. They will find leads which could regenerate perception of reality without necessarily leading to creation, but rather to a storyboard or a model of the creation.

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.

Bibliography

Bibliographie Générale Art Architecture
SZEEMANN Harald, dans coll. Les grands entretiens d’Artpress, n°1, Imec, Paris, 2012
HEINICH Nathalie, Le paradigme de l’art contemporain. Structures d’une révolution artistique, dans coll. Bibliothèque des sciences humaines, NRF, Gallimard, s.l.2014
BOUCHIER Martine, L’art n’est pas l’architecture. Hiérarchie, fusion, destruction, Archibooks + sautereau éditeur, Paris, 2006
ARDENNE Paul, « Artistes et architecture, dimensions variable », Artpress 429, p34, 2015
RANCIERE Jacques, « Le partage du sensible, esthétique et politique», La fabrique éditions, Paris, 2000
RANCIERE Jacques, « Les temps modernes, Art, temps, politique ; le moment de la danse » La fabrique éditions, Paris, 2018, p 83-114
ROLLIN Pierre-Olivier, « L'art public, geste politique ou expression citoyenne ? », La Libre Belgique, 26 octobre 2003
BRYS-SCHATAN Gita (sous la dir. de), Le Répertoire Illustré de l’Art Environnemental, Iselp, Bruxelles, 1996
Bibliographie spécifique à la thématique de l’année « le jardin d’Eden »
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Faculty or entity

LOCI

Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme

Sigle

Credits

Prerequisites

Aims

Master [120] in Architecture (Bruxelles)

ARCB2M

Master [120] in Architecture (Tournai)

ARCT2M