Undergraduate Course: Architectural History 2a: Order & the City (ARHI08006)
Course Outline
School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
Home subject area | Architecture - History |
Other subject area | None |
Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
Course description | This first-semester 20-credit course, while intending to be self-standing, is also designed to stand in relation to the second-semester 20-credit course, 'Culture and the City'. Whilst the latter considers the city in the form of those structures of access and assembly whereby its population establishes itself as a society of willing participants, this course views the city in terms of those instruments whereby order is maintained. In classical terms, architecture is a legislative form of building. The nature of its rules and their adaptatation and modification in light of different circumstances and changing political and economic circumstanes is considered by way of preface to selective study of the architecture of legislation and government, in the first half of the course. The second half of the lecture programme continues the typological approach, view in turn those various buildings by which the ills of nature and society are prevented or kept at bay, and security is maintained within the city. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students must have achieved 20 credits of Architectural History at First Level.
Those students for whom it is a compulsory component within their degree must have achieved 40 credits of Architectural History at First Level. |
Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | None |
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Delivery period: 2014/15 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
161 )
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Additional Notes |
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Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
40 %,
Practical Exam
10 %
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Exam Information |
Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Architectural History 2a: Order & the City | 2:00 | | Resit Exam Diet (August) | Architectural History 2a: Order & the City | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of connections between architecture and the social, economic and political circumstances within which it is located - tested by the Essay.
2. Demonstrate ability to evaluate urban phenomena in social contexts - tested by the Exam and the end of semester.
3. Research, analyse and present, in written and report form, themes appropriate to the course content - tested by the Tutorial Presentation. |
Assessment Information
Examination (50%)
Essay (40%)
Tutorial presentation (10%) |
Special Arrangements
None |
Additional Information
Academic description |
Not entered |
Syllabus |
Section 1 (block 1): Legislation and government
Ten lectures looking at the architectural language of order and authority in western Europe from the Renaissance to the present day exemplified by urban typologies, like the piazza, and architectural typologies, like the town hall and the parliament building.
Section 2 (block 2): Sanctuary and Sequestration
Ten lectures that consider the urban and architectural consequences of the response to the peril from nature and human nature. The city responds to war, disease, immorality, criminality, riot and disorder, infection, etc, by fortification, hospitals, monasticism,workhouses, prisons, boulevards, sewerage systems, etc. |
Transferable skills |
Not entered |
Reading list |
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Study Abroad |
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Study Pattern |
This 20 credit course is expected to take up 200 hours of student time, including 33 hours attendance, as well as coursework preparation and examination revision. |
Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Jim Lawson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2619
Email: J.Lawson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Rosie Hall
Tel: 0131 651 5802
Email: r.hall@ed.ac.uk |
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