Postgraduate Course: Intermediality in Early Modern Architecture (ARHI11013)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course explores the multiplying links between architecture and other media from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment and the ramifications of those relationships for architectural intermediality in the present day. Through first-hand encounters with buildings, painting, sculpture, historic books, and graphic art, you will study how architecture's interactions with other media shaped the rise of the modern architectural profession. |
| Course description |
Architecture's current status as an art that combines expertise in multiple media--technologies such as drawing, modelling, and publishing--began in the early modern period. While medieval builders conceived architectural design through the lens of building, Renaissance and Baroque architects from Michelangelo to Dürer, Bernini, and Rubens also employed design practices from drawing, engineering, sculpture, and painting. Metalsmiths devised architecture manuals, theatre designers shaped urban planning, and printmakers canonized the Classical Orders. But how did such experts use knowledge from other media in architecture, and what did building teach architects about the other arts?
This postgraduate course investigates the links between architecture and other media from the rise of architectural prints in the Renaissance to the proliferation of architecture academies during the Enlightenment. Through discussions around first-hand investigations of buildings, prints, drawings, treatises, and sculptures, as well as primary and secondary texts, you will study how architecture's changing relationships with other media gave rise to the modern architectural profession. The goal of this course is to empower you to explore how architectural culture thrives across multiple media platforms.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 44,
External Visit Hours 16,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
136 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
External visit hours may change and are subject to availability.
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
The summative assessment is based on an Oral Presentation, and a Research Essay, as detailed below.
Component 1 (25% of course mark): Oral Presentation
A presentation that engages one of the topics covered in the weekly schedule and draws on original research from primary and/or secondary sources. The presentation consists of a slide show, a brief overview of the chosen topic, and moderation of class discussion on the topic for approximately 30 minutes. Presentations occur during the middle of the semester. Presentation materials, including notes and the slideshow, which can be edited to reflect the class discussion, are due during the exam period. 25% of the marks for the presentation will be awarded for quality of delivery. 75% of the marks will be awarded for the quality of presentation notes and slideshow.
Component 2 (75% of course mark): Research Essay
A circa 4,000-word Research Essay that focuses one of the themes presented during the course and incorporates original research on primary and secondary sources. This submission is due at the end of the semester. |
| Feedback |
Students will receive written feedback on all components of assessment.
Formative Feedback
The formative assessment is based on a circa 500-word Essay Plan, to be submitted prior to the submission of the Essay, usually between weeks 4 and 6.
Summative Feedback
Substantive summative feedback on the essay and the presentation will be provided within 15 working days of submission. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Compare different modes of intermediality in early modern architecture and how they operated in relation to each other.
- Evaluate how early modern architecture's interactions with other media created conditions for the emergence of the modern architectural profession, as well as architecture's present entanglements with other arts.
- Critically engage with diverse textual, visual, and built primary sources and revise the terms of debate as established in key secondary literature.
- Appraise the histories and theories of early modern architecture as a medium, explaining how writing on this subject has shifted over time.
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Reading List
Kristeller, Oskar Paul, "The Modern System of the Arts." In Renaissance Thought and the Arts, ed. Paul Oskar Kristeller (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980), 163-227.
MacLuhan, Marshall. Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: Mentor, 1964).
Lavin, Irving. Bernini and the Unity of the Visual Arts. 2 vols. New York: Published for the Pierpont Morgan Library by Oxford University Press, 1980.
Payne, Alina A. "Materiality, Crafting, and Scale in Renaissance Architecture." Oxford Art Journal 32, no. 3 (2009): 365-86.
Preimesberger, Rudolf. Paragons and Paragone: Van Eyck, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, and Bernini. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2011.
Vasari, Giorgio. Vasari on Technique. Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design, Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, Prefixed to the Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. 2nd ed. Translated by Louisa S. Maclehose, and edited with introduction and notes by G. Baldwin Brown. New York: Dover, 1960.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
SCQF - Level 11
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
1. Use insights from engagement with original artworks and historical texts as well as secondary literature to critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in early modern architectural history.
2. Apply experience from research and classroom discussion to communicate with peers, senior colleagues and specialists about the early modern architectural history in written and oral form.
3. Demonstrate leadership and/or initiative and make an identifiable contribution to change and development and/or new thinking in early modern architectural history by recognising how scholars discussed in class have changed the field. |
| Special Arrangements |
Students enrolled on the MSc in Architectural History will have priority enrollment on this course. |
| Keywords | Architecture,Media,Intermediality,Early Modern,Print Culture,Cultural History,Visual Culture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Elizabeth Petcu
Tel: (0131 6)50 2619
Email: Elizabeth.Petcu@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Amanda Fleet
Tel: (0131 6)50 2328
Email: afleet@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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