Sigrid de Jong: Catalogue data in Spring Semester 2021

Name	Dr. Sigrid de Jong
Address	Geschichte und Theorie der Arch. ETH Zürich, HIL D 65 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND
E-mail	sigrid.dejong@gta.arch.ethz.ch
Department	Architecture
Relationship	Lecturer

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
063-0316-00L	History of Art and Architecture VI This core course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.	1 credit	1V	M. Delbeke, S. de Jong
Abstract	Experiencing Architecture: Architectural experience became a key concept in architectural theory and design in the second half of the 18th century. The course examines this concept in texts, designs and buildings in Paris and London. We will question the emergence of architectural experience in observations of buildings, in theories, in teachings at the academies, and in designs of buildings.
Learning objective	Deepen the basic knowledge
Content	Experiencing Architecture: Words, Designs, and Buildings: The notion that buildings are foremost objects to be experienced, and that the intended experience of buildings should guide their design, became a key concept in the second half of the eighteenth century. The course examines architectural experience in texts, designs and buildings in Paris and London, the main eighteenth-century centres of cultural debates that went through major urban and architectural developments. It studies the role of architectural experience in discussions about the situation, spatial composition, form and meaning of buildings. It questions how the relationship between experience and design evolved in this period: in writings of architects on experiencing buildings, in theoretical concepts, in design theories presented in lectures at the academies of architecture, and in architectural design.