Themes in 20th-Century Architectural Culture (U00857)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : ACE-3-AHC20th

The course investigates aspects of architectural thought in the twentieth century, through focusing on a number of significant underlying themes. These include the nature of technology and instrumental reason as they relate to Modern architecture and its iconography, the evolving ideas about the city, the search for a renewed culture of dwelling, the regenerative role of art, and the problems of originality, tradition and meaning in contemporary architecture. The course endeavours to understand architecture as situated in culture, and in the historical and physical context of the city.

Entry Requirements

? This course is not available to visting students.

? Pre-requisites : AH2A & 2B; or Honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees; or Honours entry to BMus (Music) or by agreement of the Head of Subject Area

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Not being delivered

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) 40 minutes per week for 11 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The students will gain a deeper understanding of some of the cultural and philosophical themes behind twentieth-century architecture. Through the study of selected texts, works of art and of architecture, they will develop their powers of interpretation.

The honours course requires that students read and research in a more self-directed way than in previous years. They are called upon to organise more diffuse and challenging material, constructing more sophisticated architectural-historical argument, informed by analysis of primary sources and corrected by critical awareness with regard to secondary texts.