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Postgraduate Course: ASN Critical Forum TERM 2 (ARCH11148)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (n/a) Credits10
Home subject areaArchitecture and Landscape Architecture Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionIndicative course content
A series of lectures of invited artist and architects devoted to contemporary practice. This programme will create awareness of contemporary art and architectural practice and stimulus to develop one&©s own work as reflection of specific sites and context.

Aims of course
1 To further enhance awareness of relevant theory and its application to define project and research opportunities.
2 To enable students to locate their practice with reference to contemporary fields of speculation.
3

Mode of delivery
Guest Speakers, Seminar
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites


Co-requisites


Prohibited combinations
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Develop critical awareness of contemporary practice
2. communicate and evaluate project and research proposals
3. critically evaluate and reflect upon individual development in the context of Art , Space and Nature post graduate studies
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Not entered
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Indicative Bibliography
BRINK-BUDGEN, ROY VAN DEN. Critical thinking for students: learn the skills of critical assessment and effective argument. Oxford: How To Books, 2000 NAPIER, H ALBERT. Mastering and using Microsoft Powerpoint XP. Introductory course,Cambridge, Mass, London: Course Technology,2001 STOTT, REBECA . Speaking your mind: oral presentation and seminar skills. Harlow , England; New York:Longman,2001 Carl Andre : Sculpture 1958-1974&©. Bern Kunsthalle, 1975. Carl Andre&© Hollis Frampton. $ù12 Dialogues 1962-1963&©. Ed. Benjamin Buchloh. The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Halifax. 1981. $ùAndre, Buren, Irwin, Nordman. Space and Support&©. Mark Rosenthal. University of California. San Francisco. 1979. Hannah Arendt. $ùThe LIfe of The Mind&©. HBJ. New York. 1971. $ùAristotle&©. The Philosophy of Aristotle. New American Library. New York. 1963. Rudolf Arnheim. $ùVisual Thinking&©. University of California Press. Berkeley. 1971. Gaston Bachelard. $ùThe Poetics of Space&©. Beacon Press. 1994. Reyner Banham. $ùTheory and Design in the First Machine Age&©. Architectural Press. London. 1980 Reyner Banham. $ùLos Angeles. The Architecture of Four Ecologies&©. University of California Press. 2001. Roland Barthes. $ùNew Critical Essays&©. Hill and Wang. New York. 1980. Walter Benjamin. $ùReflections&©. Schocken Books. New York. 1986. John Berger. $ùways of Seeing&©. Pelican. London. 1973. David Bohm. $ùScience Order and Creativity&©. Routledge. London. 1988. Alexander Broadie. $ùThe Tradition of Scottish Philosophy&©. Polygon. Edinburgh. 1990. Norman Carver. $ùForm and Space of Japanese Architecture&©. Shokokusha. Tokyo. 1955. George Elder Davie. $ùThe Democratic Intellect&©. The University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh. 1961. Jacques Derrida. $ùTruth in Painting&©. UCP. 1987. Frantz Fanon. $ùThe Wretched of The Earth. Grove Press. New York. 1963. James Frazer. $ùThe Golden Bough, A Study in Magic and Religion&©. MacMillan. London. 1963. Sigmund Freud. 'The Interpretation of Dreams&©. Wordsworth Editions. 1997. Buckminster Fuller. $ùIntuition&©. Anchor Books. New York. 1973.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Contact hours 15 hours
Directed study 10 hours
Self-directed study 75 hours
Total 100 hours
KeywordsNot entered
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