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Undergraduate Course: Architectural History 2b: Culture & the City (ARHI08007)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaArchitecture and Landscape Architecture Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThe 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.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Architectural History 1 (ARHI08005)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs none
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesnone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?Yes
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1) WebCT enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Location Activity Description Weeks Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
CentralLecture1-11 12:10 - 13:00
CentralLecture1-11 12:10 - 13:00
First Class Week 1, Monday, 12:10 - 13:00, Zone: Central. Lecture Theatre 270, Old College
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours:Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)Architectural History 2b: Culture & the City2:00
Resit Exam Diet (August)Architectural History 2b: Culture & the City2:00
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
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.
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Jim Lawson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2619
Email: J.Lawson@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Claire Davies
Tel: (0131 6)50 2309
Email: c.davies@ed.ac.uk
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