Architectural History 1A: From Antiquity to Enlightenment (U00756)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 8 ? Acronym : ACE-1-AH1A

This course surveys the history of British and European architecture, concentrating on the period from Greek antiquity to the neoclassical period of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The early lectures focus on Greek and Roman architecture, the architecture of eastern and western christendom in the Middle Ages as well as the secular architecture of that period. This section finishes with the first great re-evaluation of Antiquity in the the Italian Renaissance. The later lectures survey the Renaissance in Britain and northern Europe and the subsequent influence of the Italian Baroque in these areas. Later, the dialogue between developments and ideas in these countries and their respective responses to Antiquity forms the culmination of the course, which considers the theoretical, cultural and stylistic aspects of the architecture of the Enlightenment. The technologies of building and the emergence of the architectural profession are themes which recur during the lecture course. Excursions into the related fields of landscape architecture and urban design necessarily appear from time to time.

Entry Requirements

none

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Architecture - History, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

Other subject areas

Environmental Courses, (School of GeoSciences, Schedule N)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 1st year

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 3 hour(s) 20 minutes per week for 11 weeks

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
18/09/2007	16:10	17:00	Lecture Theatre C, David Hume Tower	Central

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Monday	16:10	17:00	Central
Lecture	Tuesday	16:10	17:00	Central
Lecture	Thursday	16:10	17:00	Central

? Additional Class Information : Plus a weekly tutorial

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

A knowledge of the history of western architecture from antiquity to the beginning of the industrial era.

An awareness of the relationship between architecture and other aspects of western culture, in particular visual culture.

An awareness of the wider social, political and economic context in which architecture is created

A knowledge of the specialist language of architecture

Some ability in the critical and comparative analysis of buildings

Familiarity with the methodology and vocabulary of scholarship and criticism in the field of architecture