Postgraduate Course: Architecture and Modernity circa 1900 (ARHI11014)
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 probes the history and historiography of architecture between 1880 and 1914, emphasizing the development of modernism and the ability of architects to respond to questions of geographic, cultural, and socioeconomic importance through a consideration of the major structures and movements along with prevailing literature. |
| Course description |
This PG course considers the primary developments in European and North American architecture and urbanism at the dawn of the twentieth century along with the significant historiographical texts associated with them. Its comparative approach during a relatively short time period invites you to relate and distinguish the various building paradigms invented and extended during a seminal period in the history of modern architecture. In our exploration of phenomena such as the Arts & Crafts Movement, the emergence of the Prairie School, Art Nouveau, the German Werkbund, Catalan Modernisme, Italian Futurism, and the golden age of international expositions, we will seek to define what it meant to create a modern architecture in a great variety of geographic, cultural, political, socioeconomic, and material contexts, as well as to familiarize you with the major scholarly perspectives identified with them by the key scholars in the field.
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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: 25 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
152 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Summative assessment is based on a research paper whose submission, which will take into account Learning Outcomes 1-5, will take place during the examination period (85%), as well as the submission of a weekly reading diary (15%).
Component 1 (15% of course mark): Weekly Reading Diary
You will complete a weekly reading diary of roughly 250 words that engages the topics covered in the programme and demonstrates your ability to critically examine the texts assigned for each class session. You will submit it weekly through Learn before each class, and at the end of the term it will be marked and returned to you as one document.
Component 2 (85% of course mark): Research Paper
A 4,000-word paper wherein you will focus one of the movements presented during the course and incorporate original research on primary and secondary sources. This will be based on the formative essay plan that you submit in the middle of the term. Your submission of the Research Paper is due towards the end of the semester. |
| Feedback |
The formative assessment is primarily based on a circa-400-word essay plan, replete with a tentative bibliography, which you will submit in the middle of the term. The instructor will return the essay plan to you with written comments and suggestions as to the direction of the essay for its completion. A second component of formative assessment is based on a class presentation of about 20 minutes that you will give on one week's assigned readings, which could have bearing on the your choice for the summative essay for the course. The instructor will give you written comments and suggestions on the presentation.
Feedback for each component of the summative assessment will be provided as written comments through LEARN.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate the major structures, architects, and movements in design and urban developments between 1880 and 1914.
- Outline and describe in depth the underlying historical forces behind the development of a modern architecture appropriate to specific regions and geographies.
- Critically engage with diverse textual, visual, and built sources, revising the terms of debate as established in key literature.
- Assess key nodes of interchange in architectural thought and practice between architects and urbanists working in different geographic locations.
- Demonstrate a critical perspective on key primary and secondary texts addressing the architecture of this period.
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Reading List
Greenhalgh, Paul. Fair World: A History of World's Fairs and International Expositions, 1851-2010. London: Papadakis, 2011.
Lane, Barbara Miller. National Romanticism and Modern Architecture in Germany and the Scandinavian Countries. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Levine, Neil. The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright. Princeton, NJ, USA: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Ogata, Amy. Art Nouveau and the Social Vision of Modern Living: Belgian Artists in a European Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Schorske, Carl. Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1981. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will be able to show readiness to critically review, consolidate and extend knowledge, skills, practices and thinking in the subject.
Students will be able to communicate with peers, more senior colleagues and specialists about the topic.
Students will demonstrate leadership and/or initiative and make an identifiable contribution to change and development and/or new thinking in this field. |
| Keywords | Geography,Modernism,Exhibitions,Urbanism,International,Historiography |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Peter Clericuzio
Tel:
Email: pclericu@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Amanda Fleet
Tel: (0131 6)50 2328
Email: afleet@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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