The colloquium, brings together all students at the same level within the Ph.D. program and enriches the work of defining the dissertation topic and subsequent research and writing.
Subjects a well defined body of theory to scrutiny and assessment. Examples: The Warburg School of Aesthetic Theory (E. Cassirer, E. Panofsky, E. Gombrich, R. Wittkower, etc.); Phenomenological Theory in relation to architecture dealing with the theoretical work (E. Mach, M. Merleau-Ponty, G. Bachelard, C. Norberg-Schulz, A. Perez-Gomez); tracing the impact of the evolution of Post-Structuralist/Deconstructionist Theory on architecture (P. de Mann, J. Derrida, M. Wigley, P. Eisenman).