Course Code：MS001123
Course Name：Introduction to the Architecture and Anthropology of Habitation, Ancient and Modern
Course Name in Chinese：栖居的建筑与人类学导论
Credit：1
Course Introduction：
Modern architects—faced with both the perils and possibilities of industrial urbanization—they looked both far and back, toward the distant and the “primitive,” in a deliberate search for the essentials of habitation. While experimenting with modern techniques and engaging in contemporary social debates, many sought to rediscover the fundamental needs and principles of dwelling through travel and anthropological study. Conceiving the modern person as a “primordial human” whose dwelling harmonizes the rhythms and impulses of biology and psychology with the flows of the world, they proposed designs that sought thematic continuity and coherence, resisting exclusively historicist, artistic, functionalist, or consumerist attitudes. Aligning with the insights of modern architects, recent archaeological research has challenged the conventional narrative of the “primitive hut” as a linear progression from utilitarian necessity to expressive complexity, revealing that the practical aspects of the earliest habitations of hunter-gatherers and early farmers were interwoven with cosmological significance.
This graduate seminar explores both real and imagined ancient habitations and their reflections in modern architecture, examining the works of architects alongside select pre-modern settlements, with a particular focus on the Mediterranean region. As the stable climate patterns that once enabled the shift from hunting to farming begin to collapse and technological and digital transformations challenge established practices, it is timely to delve into the anthropological dimensions of architecture and investigate precedents that reveal the multifaceted yet intrinsically connected dimensions of habitation.
Course Introduction in Chinese：
人们的居住习惯随时间与地点的不同而不同，然而一所住宅总是容纳了工作与休息、成长与衰老、音乐与色彩、动物与植物、朋友与敌人。面对工业化、城市化的危险和可能性，当住宅成为现代建筑师的主要关注点时，他们将目光同时投向远方和过去，遥远的和 "原始的"，有意识地寻找居住的基本要素。在尝试现代技术和争论社会问题的同时，许多人开始通过人类学研究和旅行重新发现人类居住的典型需求和目的。他们将 "现代人 "视为 "原始人"，认为人类的居住集中了其生物学和心理学的节奏和冲动，并使之与世界的节奏和流动相一致，因此他们提出了新的设计方案，寻求连续性和一致性以反对单一的历史主义、艺术主义、功能主义或消费主义。最近的考古研究与现代建筑师的看法不谋而合，挑战了“原始茅屋”从实际需求到表现复杂性的线性进步的传统叙事，揭示了狩猎采集者和早期农民的最初居住就是实用性与宇宙论意义的交织。
本课程探讨真实或想象的古代居住形式及其在现代建筑中的反映，考察现代建筑师的作品和前现代的，特别是地中海地区的居住建筑。随着促使狩猎转向农耕的稳定气候模式开始崩溃，以及新技术和数字转向对既有实践的挑战，现在正是深入探讨建筑的人类学维度、研究揭示具有内在联系的居住的多面性的好时机。
Course Director：
艾丝拉·萨赫欣·布拉特
Esra Sahin Burat
巴卡漫画 建筑国际化示范学院，副教授
Architecture Internalization Demonstration School, Associate Professor
Coordinating Teacher：诸葛净 ZHUGE Jing
Course Level：Master program
Semester Offered：Spring Semester
