ARCH 347Philosophy in Architecture
- Faculty
- Engineering
- Last listed
- Spring 2024
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2024. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
In the course catalog from Winter 2020 to Spring 2024; Open Data has no classes for it in that time.
The course introduces the study of philosophical issues as they pertain to architecture, urbanism, image-making and symbol manipulation. The course focuses on the work of a selection of living and recent philosophers whose issues are relevant to questions of everyday 21st century life, with reference to their basis in the history of philosophy. Work by philosophers such as Giorgio Agamben, Kwame Anthony Appiah and Judith Butler on ethics, Gilles Deleuze on meaning, Friedrich Kittler on media and technology, Jean-Luc Nancy on community and Slavoj Zizek on psychoanalysis and political economy, as well as Canadian scholars such as Marshall McLuhan and Harold Innis is addressed. Students participate in a seminar format with a series of presentations linking their design projects with philosophical issues, and submit a final project making use of text and diagrams. [Offered: F, W]
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: Level at least 3A Architecture
Check it elsewhere
- Undergraduate Calendar, 2023–24Its last calendar entry, on ucalendar
- Course outlinesSyllabi from past terms (UW login)
- UW FlowStudent ratings and reviews
- WClassesPast sections back to 2004, and who taught them
In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1974–75 to 1992–93, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1974–75 to 1992–93 19 calendars
The course attempts to establish a basis for the understanding of the functions of myth, ceremony and ritual, the structures of primitive and ancient built environments, man’s attitude towards nature, and his use of the resource environment, the development of classical culture, and the beginnings of science. Prereq: Arch 346 or consent of instructors
Courses for Bachelor of Architecture
(For Recommended Programme, see page 143).
The courses for the Bachelor of Architecture Programme are intended’to prepare the student to demonstrate professional skill in separating, organizing, and conceptualizing actual problems in the man-made environment in his/her role as an architect, alone and in a team; to synthesize mechanical, structural and functional systems into architectural
. expressions which adapt to social needs and aspirations of society, user, client and community, alone and with the help of others; to adapt his/her skills to (a) real world constraints, (b) to the evolution of social economic and technological changes, and (c) to influence change both in constraints and environmental problems and know the current methods and procedures in professional practice for defining and solving environmental problems; to organize patterns of behaviour which assure continuing development for professional competence and relevance at all times; and to pass the examination for registration as an architect if he/she aspires to become a practising professional.
4 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
- 1974–75 PDF p. 404
- 1975–76 PDF p. 232
- 1976–77 PDF p. 199
- 1977–78 PDF p. 226
- 1978–79 PDF p. 227
- 1979–80 PDF p. 237
- 1980–81 PDF p. 249
- 1981–82 PDF p. 259
- 1982–83 PDF p. 266
- 1983–84 PDF p. 284
- 1984–85 PDF p. 283
- 1985–86 PDF p. 292
- 1986–87* PDF p. 298
- 1987–88* PDF p. 308
- 1988–89* PDF p. 305
- 1989–90* PDF p. 321
- 1990–91* PDF p. 326
- 1991–92* PDF p. 333
- 1992–93* PDF p. 330
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.