Undergraduate Course: Themes in 20th-Century Architectural Culture (ARHI10015)
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 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Architecture - History |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course investigates aspects of architectural thought in the twentieth century, through focusing on a number of significant underlying themes. These include the nature of technology and instrumental reason as they relate to Modern architecture and its iconography, the evolving ideas about the city, the search for a renewed culture of dwelling, the regenerative role of art, and the problems of originality, tradition and meaning in contemporary architecture. The course endeavours to understand architecture as situated in culture, and in the historical and physical context of the city. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Students must have honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees or honours entry to Music or by agreement of Head of Subject Area. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
The students will gain a deeper understanding of some of the cultural and philosophical themes behind twentieth-century architecture. Through the study of selected texts, works of art and of architecture, they will develop their powers of interpretation.
The honours course requires that students read and research in a more self-directed way than in previous years. They are called upon to organise more diffuse and challenging material, constructing more sophisticated architectural-historical argument, informed by analysis of primary sources and corrected by critical awareness with regard to secondary texts.
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Assessment Information
1x2500 word essay (50%)
1x2 hour examination (50%) |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dagmar Weston
Tel: (0131 6)50 2327
Email: Dagmar.Weston@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Claire Davies
Tel: (0131 6)51 5925
Email: c.davies@ed.ac.uk |
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