Undergraduate Course: What is Modernism? (ARHI10012)
Course Outline
| School |
School of Arts, Culture and Environment |
College |
College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type |
Standard |
Availability |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Architecture - History |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None |
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| Course description |
The reported demise of the modernist project and the dawn of the postmodernist age invites us to reconsider the nature of the modern movement that has dominated architectural design in the twentieth century. The course will investigate those elements of architectural theory and design that were considered by their creators to be essentially and specifically modern in the period 1800-1970. It will be constructed around nine "imperatives": Functionalism, Urbanism, Mobility, Control/the Expert/the Profession, Monumentality, Organicism, Spirituality and Socialism. These imperatives do not represent exclusive categories: some are mutually supportive while others are antagonistic. Viewed together, they embrace the principal intellectual, technical, and social forces that combined to produce the new impulse in architectural design known as the Modern Movement. |
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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Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
In addition to exploring the Modern Movement, the course will also consider the impact of modernist thought, as defined in the realm on architecture, on the wider contexts of urban design, social theory, and philosophical discourse. Throughout history architectural analogies have been invoked to explain structures of thought, and this relationship has been particularly strong in the contexts of modernist and postmodernist theory.
The course will investigate those elements of architectural theory and design that were considered by their creators to be essentially modern in the period 1800-1970. It will also consider the impact of modernist thought, as defined in the realm of architecture, in the wider contexts of urban design, social theory and philosophical discourse.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
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Assessment Information
1X2500 word essay (50%)
1x2 hour examination (50%) |
| Please see Visiting Student Prospectus website for Visiting Student Assessment information |
Special Arrangements
| Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Dr Dagmar Weston
Tel: (0131 6)50 2327
Email: Dagmar.Weston@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
Miss Claire Davies
Tel: (0131 6)50 2309
Email: c.davies@ed.ac.uk |
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