Undergraduate Course: Architectural Design: Any Place (ARCH08006)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Arts, Culture and Environment |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 08 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Architecture - joint with Edinburgh College of Art |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This module is thematically focused on circumstances and conditions beyond the local. It moves away from ideas of locality to consider issues of foreignness and distance. This thematic focus is supplemented by a broader interest in the city as a condition for architecture. Students investigate a range of everyday practices that constitute the experiences of the contemporary city. Working through a series of studio exercises, students explore these themes in architectural terms. These exercises also support the development of skills in the manipulation of form, volume and built fabric. They do so in the context of ideas of creative agency and design inquiry within broader frameworks of accountability and consequence.
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Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| Additional information |
Tuesday 9am - 1pm, Thursday 9am - 11am, Friday - all day.
There is one main studio day which will be structured according to the design projects being undertaken. A mixture of methods will be used, supervised learning, directed learning, and independent learning. |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, the student will be able to demonstrate:
1. Ability to develop architectural designs that
appropriately respond to specified non-local conditions and that integrate an explicit investigation through research;
2. Capacity to synthesize a range of programmatic
components, formal and spatial strategies of modest complexity within an architectural design that responds to specified urban conditions;
3. Ability to critically explore and effectively
communicate design ideas and propositions individually and as part of a team, in a range of digital and analogue formats, including portfolio. |
Assessment Information
Continuous assessment through design coursework, and portfolio presentation for examination at the end of the semester. Drawn, modeled and documented design studio work & project panels.
This course will be assessed in accordance with The Assessment Regulations of Edinburgh College of Art |
Special Arrangements
| This course is taught jointly with Edinburgh College of Art. Students will have access to both campuses and may be located in studios at either institution. |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Mr Malcolm Jones
Tel: 0131 650 2307
Email: m.jones@eca.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Mrs Leigh-Anne Pieterse
Tel: (0131 6)50 2306
Email: l.a.pieterse@ed.ac.uk |
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