Undergraduate Course: Architectural History 2a: Order & the City (ARHI08006)
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 - History |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
This first-semester 20-credit course, while intending to be self-standing, is also designed to stand in relation to the second-semester 20-credit course, $ùCulture and the City.&© Whilst the latter considers the city in the form of those structures of access and assembly whereby its population establishes itself as a society of willing participants, this course views the city in terms of those instruments whereby order is maintained. In classical terms, architecture is a legislative form of building. The nature of its rules and their adaptatation and modification in light of different circumstances and changing political and economic circumstanes is considered by way of preface to selective study of the architecture of legislation and government, in the first half of the course. The second half of the lecture programme continues the typological approach, view in turn those various buildings by which the ills of nature and society are prevented or kept at bay, and security is maintained within the city. |
Entry Requirements
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Co-requisites |
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| Prohibited Combinations |
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Other requirements |
None
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| Additional Costs |
None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, 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 |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge of how cities have developed and been understood through history
2. Detailed knowledge of the particular building and urban typologies studies in the course
3. Critical understanding of the connections between architecture and prevailing social, economic, political and cultural circumstances
4. Understanding of the city as a continuing and evolving response to utilitarian demands, on the one hand, and as an emblem of civilisation, on the other. |
Assessment Information
Examination (50%)
Essay (40%)
Tutorial presentation (10%) |
Special Arrangements
| There are no prerequisites for this course except that students for whom it is a compulsory component within their degree are subject to the normal progression rules of that degree. |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Jim Lawson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2619
Email: J.Lawson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Claire Davies
Tel: (0131 6)50 2309
Email: c.davies@ed.ac.uk |
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