Undergraduate Course: Architectural Theory (ARCH10002)
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 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Architecture - joint with Edinburgh College of Art |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
This module examines selected historical and contemporary developments in architectural design theory from a critical perspective. By situating their emergence within larger intellectual currents, it demonstrates architectural design theory&©s relationship with other areas of culture and provides students with an expanded interpretive framework through which to understand architectural production. The sequence of lectures around which the module is structured is thematically organised, taking up by turn theories of power, the philosophy of technology, the politics of domination, the production of space, history as disjunction, gender issues, discourses of the unconscious, cyberspace, theories of interpretation,
and deconstruction.
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Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
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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
| Not being delivered |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| On successful completion of this module, the student will be able to demonstrate: 1. Knowledge of contemporary design theories and the ways in which they have informed specific approaches to, and practices of, architectural design. 2. Ability to demonstrate and analyse through careful argument how architectural production fits within wider philosophical, historical, social, political and economic discourses. 3. Ability to research issues in architectural theory, to critically reflect upon them, and to organise and present those reflections in the format of a scholarly essay. |
Assessment Information
Learning outcomes are assessed by essay (3000 words)
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords |
Design theory, culture, place |
Contacts
| Course organiser |
Mr Dorian Wiszniewski
Tel: (0131 6)50 2311
Email: Dorian.Wiszniewski@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary |
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