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Structure and Architecture: Technology, Design and Construction (U01194)

? Credit Points : 20 ? SCQF Level : 10 ? Acronym : ACE-3-ASSA2

This course surveys the relationship between structural engineering and architecture from the late nineteenth century until the present day. The course deals with the manner in which engineers utilised the new materials, construction processes and design tools that emerged during this period; Specific themes that are covered are the emergence of new structural forms, the conflict between analysis and intuition in the design of structure, the increasing industrialisation of the construction industry and the engineer as architect and builder.

? Keywords : engineering, structure, architecture, technology, architectural structure, construction, design, manufacture, concrete, steel, industrialisation, prefabrication, dymaxion

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : Architectural History 1 or 1A and 1B or 1C 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.

? Costs : Computing fee

Subject Areas

Home subject area

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

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : 3rd year

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

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

First Class Information

Date	Start	End	Room	Area	Additional Information
08/01/2008	14:00	15:50

All of the following classes

Type	Day	Start	End	Area
Lecture	Tuesday	14:00	15:50	Central

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

- a knowledge of the contribution (symbolic and literal) which structural and materials technology has made to the development of Modern architectures.

- a knowledge of the prominent structural engineers of the twentieth century and of their principal works.

- a knowledge of the different attitudes adopted by engineers and designers towards their use of materials, structural form and the architectural expression of structural form

- a knowledge of the methodology and vocabulary of scholarship and criticism as it may be applied to the field of architectural technology