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 |
Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) |
SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits |
20 |
| Home subject area |
Architecture - History |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| 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
| 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 |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2010/11 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | 12:10 - 13:00 | | | | | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | 12:10 - 13:00 | |
| First Class |
Week 1, Monday, 12:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Lecture Theatre 5, Appleton Tower, George Square |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours:Minutes |
Stationery Requirements |
Comments |
| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Architectural History 2a: Order & the City | 2:00 | 2 x 12 sides | |
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. |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Section 1 (block 1): Legislation and government
Ten lectures looking at the architectural language of order and authority in western Europe from the Renaissance to the present day exemplified by urban typologies, like the piazza, and architectural typologies, like the town hall and the parliament building.
Section 2 (block 2): Sanctuary and Sequestration
Ten lectures that consider the urban and architectural consequences of the response to the perceived peril from nature and human nature. The city responds to war, disease, immorality, criminality, riot and disorder, infection, etc, by fortification, hospitals, monasticism,workhouses, prisons, boulevards, sewerage systems, etc. |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
This 20 credit course is expected to take up 200 hours of student time, including 33 hours attendance, as well as coursework preparation and examination revision. |
| Keywords |
Not entered |
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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