Undergraduate Course: Meanings of Classicisms (ARHI10039)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is a vehicle for current staff research-led teaching in themes relating to the history of classical architecture - and especially Renaissance and Early Modern architecture. The broad outline of the course will be clearly advertised to students at the time that course choices are made, and enquiries may be made to the Programme Director for Architectural History. |
| Course description |
This course explores themes in the practice, theory and reception of classical architecture, especially that of the Renaissance and Early Modern period, with reference to designers, key buildings, texts, treatises and unbuilt projects from a range of geographical contexts as appropriate. It considers how and why particular architectural forms can be invested with different meanings at times and places. It explores why classicism is a recurrent phenomenon in western architecture and in some non-western cultures, looking at themes including the relationship between architecture and power.
Through class participation and assessed work, the course will develop students' skills in working with historic texts and treatises, as well as visual analysis and building description, and will place classical architecture in its wider social, political and urban historical contexts. The course will also encourage students to reflect on how historians have written about and otherwise engaged with classical architecture, and to craft their own contributions to the historiographical debate through their assessed work and class contributions.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students should normally have passed at least 60 credits of Architectural History or History of Art/History courses at Level 8. If the pre-requisites cannot be met, entry to this course can be negotiated in consultation with either the Course Organiser or Programme Director (Architectural History). |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should have at least 3 Architectural History/History of Art courses at Grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 18 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 11,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Revision Session Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
158 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | ARHI10039 - Meanings of Classicisms Exam paper | 2:135 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of classicism as a grammar of architecture, subject to change, according to historical and local circumstances.
- Critically evaluate material and documentary sources for classical architecture.
- Demonstrate communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
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Reading List
James-Chakraborty, Kathleen. Architecture since 1400. University of Minnesota Press, 2014.
Anderson, Christy. Renaissance Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2013.
Lemerle, Frédérique, and Yves Pauwels, Baroque Architecture 1600-1750. Rizzoli/Flmmarion, 2008.
Thoenes, Christof, and Bernd Evers. Architectural Theory. Pioneering Texts on Architecture from the Renaissance to Today. Taschen, 2019.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | classicsm,architecture,order,authority power |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Olek Musial
Tel:
Email: amusial@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr David Currie
Tel:
Email: dcurrie5@ed.ac.uk |
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