Undergraduate Course: Architectural History 2b: Culture & the City (ARHI08007)
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 - joint with Edinburgh College of Art |
Other subject area |
None |
| Course website |
None
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Taught in Gaelic? |
No |
| Course description |
The course looks at the notion of the City as the exemplary setting of our social condition. Whilst the city is understood to embody organising principles and to be constituted according to the commands of political thought, the course concentrates upon the city conceived also otherwise. It is the scene of self-conscious community and is our monument to shared memory. If the essential act of the city, politically conceived, is one of walling or penning, the city conceived socially is a scene of processing and gathering- together. The architecture and city planning of accord is the subject of the course. The lecture programme falls into two parts, the first dealing with our acts of pilgrimage and congregation $úfor the purposes of religion, entertainment and improvement. The second part deals with our celebration in architecture of what we share metaphysically $ú social memory and the memorial.
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Entry Requirements
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
Architectural History 1 (ARHI08005)
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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 2, 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. TBC |
| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
1. Knowledge of how cities have developed and been understood through history.
2. Understanding the city in terms of spontaneous social organisation and the architectural forms that signify that.
3. Critical understanding of the connections between architecture and prevailing social, economic, political and cultural circumstances.
4. Understanding of architecture in terms of its memorial significance
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Assessment Information
Examination (50%)
Essay (40%)
Tutorial Presentation (10%) |
Special Arrangements
| This course is taught jointly with Edinburgh College of Art |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Section 1 (block 3): Pilgrimage & Congregation
Ten lectures on the architectural and urbanistic acknowledgement of Religion, Politics, Spectacle, Consumption and Procession
Section 2 (block 4): Memory & Memorial
Ten lectures where the city is explored in the spirit of arrival at the city by, for example, the inheritor, the foundling, the scholar, the celebrant and the cynic |
| 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 course work 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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