| 1 | Course introduction |
 "The Vision." In The Works of Lucian of Samosata. Translated by Henry Watson Fowler and F. G. Fowler. Charleston, SC: BiblioBazaar, 2009, pp. 1-7. ISBN: 9781103536498. |
| 2 | Modernity |
Plato. "Book VII, 514a-518d: The Cave." In The Republic. Translated by Desmond Lee. New York, NY: Penguin Classics, 2007. ISBN: 9780140455113. ———. "Book X." In The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691097183. ———. "Book VI." In The Collected Dialogues of Plato. Edited by Edith Hamilton and Huntington Cairns. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. ISBN: 9780691097183.
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| 3 | Metaphysics and anti-metaphysics |
 Tschumi, Bernard. "Architecture and Limits," "Violence of Architecture," and "Disjunctions." In Architecture and Disjunction. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996, pp. 101-140, 207-204. ISBN: 9780262700603.
Nietzsche, Friedrich. Sections 108, 109, 115-117, 124-126. In The Gay Science. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. New York, NY: Vintage, 1974. ISBN: 9780394719856. ———. "Preface," and "First Treatise: 'Good and Evil,' 'Good and Bad'." In On the Genealogy of Morality. Translated by Maudemarie Clark and Alan J. Swensen. Indianapolis, IN: Hackett Publishing, 1998, pp. 1-33. ISBN: 9780872202832.
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| 4 | Debate 1 | |
| 5 | Social contract |
Rousseau, Jean. The Social Contract, or Principles of Political Right. Latrobe, Benjamin. "Letter to Robert Mills." In The Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Volume 2, 1805-1810. Edited by John Van Horne. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1986, pp. 239-244. Locke, John. "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding." Chapter 2 in The Second Treatise of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration. New York, NY: Dover, 2002. ISBN: 9780486424644. Kant, Immanuel. "Analytic of the Sublime." In Critique of Judgement. Book II, sections 40-54. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN: 9780192806178.
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| 6 | Defining the architect |
Tafuri, Manfredo, and Luisa Passerini. "History as Project: An Interview with Manfredo Tafuri." ANY no. 25/26 (2000): extracts from pp. 28-31. Vitruvius. On Architecture. Book 1. Translated by Frank Granger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931. ISBN: 9780674992771. Gropius, Walter. Scope of Total Architecture. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1955, excerpts. (Twelve points, beginning with "I sum up my conclusions for a transitional approach in architectural education")
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| 7 | Avant-garde |
Greenberg, Clement. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." In Perceptions and Judgements, 1939-1944 (The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1). Edited by John O'Brian. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 5-22. ISBN: 9780226306179. Stirner, Max. The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority. New York, NY: Dover, 2005, excerpts. ISBN: 9780486445816.
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| 8 | Debate 2 | |
| 9 | Psychology |
Vischer, Robert. "On the Optical Sense of Form: A Contribution to Aesthetics." In Empathy, Form, and Space: Problems in German Aesthetics, 1873-1893. Santa Monica, CA: Getty Center for the History of Art, 1994, pp. 92-98. ISBN: 9780892362592. Arnheim, Rudolf. The Dynamics of Architectural Form. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2009, pp. 258-259 and 262-274. ISBN: 9780520261259. Greenberg, Clement. "Avant-Garde and Kitsch." In Perceptions and Judgements, 1939-1944 (The Collected Essays and Criticism, Volume 1). Edited by John O'Brian. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1986, pp. 5-22. ISBN: 9780226306179.
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| 10 | Husserl |
Husserl, Edmund. Ideas: General Introduction to Pure Phenomenology. Translated by W. R. Boyce Gibson. New York, NY: Collier, 1969, pp. 45-55, 171-179, and 242-243. ———. "Philosophy as Rigorous Science." In Phenomenology and the Crisis of Philosophy. Translated by Quentin Lauer. New York, NY: Harper Torchbooks, 1965, pp. 71-75, 98-109, 136-137, and 142-143. ISBN: 9780061311703.
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| 11 | Heidegger |
Heidegger, Martin. "Building Dwelling Thinking." In Poetry, Language, Thought. Translated by Albert Hofstadter. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2001. ISBN: 9780060937287. Norberg-Schultz, Christian. Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture. New York, NY: Rizzoli, 1991, selected pages. ISBN: 9780847802876.
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| 12 | Debate 3 | |
| 13 | Course wrap-up |
Fussell, Paul. Class: A Guide Through the American Status System. New York, NY: Touchstone, 1992, pp. 26-33, 38-39, 51-59, 64-65, 80-81, 90-93, 162-163, and 194-197. ISBN: 9780671792251. |
