Postgraduate Course: ASN CONTEXTUAL STUDIES TERM 2 (ARCH11150)
Course Outline
School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (n/a) |
Credits | 10 |
Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | Indicative 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.
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Mode of delivery
Lecture, Guest Speakers, Tutorials, Site Visit |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
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Co-requisites
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Prohibited combinations
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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
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Special Arrangements
None |
Additional Information
Academic description |
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Syllabus |
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Transferable skills |
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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 |
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Study Pattern |
Contact hours 15 hours
Directed study 10 hours
Self-directed study 75 hours
Total 100 hours |
Keywords | Not entered |
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