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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Edinburgh College of Art : Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Postgraduate Course: ASN CONTEXTUAL STUDIES TERM 2 (ARCH11150)

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 and field studies to introduce relevant theory and methodologies to research site & 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
Lecture, Guest Speakers, Tutorials, Site Visit
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Pre-requisites
N.A.

Co-requisites
N.A.

Prohibited combinations
N.A.
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Examine techniques to analyse site and context
2. Produce site specific work
3. Take part in and adapt to different team experiences,sharing, negotiating and presenting information
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
FERNIIE, JES. Two Minds Artists and Architects in Collaboration, Black Dog Publishing, 2006 OKUTSU, KIYOSHI JOHNSTON, ALAN MAC DONALD, MURDO and SADAKATA, NOBURU Patrick Geddes: By Leaves We Live Edinburgh-Yamaguchi 2004, Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2005 URSPRUNG, PHILIP Ed. Herzog & De Meuron Natural History, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Lars Muller Publishers, 2002 BEARDSLEY, JOHN. Earthworks and Beyond, Contemporary Art in the Landscape, Abbeville Press, New York, 1989 HOLT, NANCEY Ed. The Writings of Robert Smithson. New York: New York University Press, 1979 MOSTAFAVI, MOSHEN and NAJLE, CIRO Ed. Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Mechanic. Landscape Architectural Association, 2003 FOUCAULT, MICHEL. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias published in ArchitectureCulture 1943 -1968 Joan Ockman (ed), Colombia University BAUDRILLARD, JEAN. Excerpts from the &«Evil Demon of Images&ª Published by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, Australia, 1988 GREGOTTI, VITTORIA. On Atopia, Published in Inside Architecture By Vittorio Gregotti / Kenneth Frampton. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1996 KAHN, LOUIS The Room, The Street and Human Agreement Printed in A+U, Vol 3. no1, 1973 WELTER, VOLKER Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life MIT PRESS, 2002
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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