Postgraduate Course: Architecture and Sustainability (Distance Learning) (Heriot-Watt) (ARCH11220)
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 | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is about how architecture is influenced through sustainable development and how in turn the development of our cities affects the way we deal with critical environmental issues. It is delivered through distance learning. |
| Course description |
Architecture and Sustainability gives you an overview at a range of scales from the global to individual building of sustainable design discourses. Architecture is often said to hold a mirror up to the aspirations and values of the society and this course examines how successful built environment strategies are in engaging with sustainable development.
This course does not seek to be a comprehensive grounding in sustainable design. Instead it seeks to convey the essential theories, debates and strategies that inform the relationship between sustainable development and architecture.
You will study the following themes:
[A] Principles of Sustainable Development
[B] The Sustainable City
[C] The Sustainable Neighbourhood
[D] The Sustainable Building
This is a distance learning course, delivered entirely online using as its main delivery platform our virtual learning environment. The choice of this mode of delivery enables you to shape your study pattern around your working day and other commitments. There are online texts, links to ebooks provided by our library and lecture recordings. You will have a tutor who will advise and guide you through the course.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This is a run-off course for a discontinuing programme.
This course is only available for students enrolled for MSc Architectural Project Management. It is not available to any other students. |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Gain knowledge and understanding of key sustainable concepts as applicable to architecture.
- Acquire an appreciation of the varying scales of enquiry in formulating sustainable design strategies
- Develop the ability to critically appraise the built environment through sustainable criteria
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Reading List
T. J. Williamson, Helen Bennets & Antony Radford: Understanding Sustainable Architecture
Paul F. Downton: Ecopolis: Architecture and Cities for a Changing Climate
R S Means: Green Building
Peter Calthorpe: Urbanism in the age of climate change
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Apply strategies for appropriate selection of relevant information from a wide source and large body of knowledge;
Communicate effectively at all levels and using a range of media;
Show understanding of how sustainable discourses inform contemporary architectural design;
Show a development of research skills based on tangible scenario based learning;
Display understanding in the collection of research information and techniques in communicating the proper attribution of others¿ work;
Display a facility in effective information gathering across diverse discipline fields.
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Brennan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2324
Email: John.Brennan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Laura Varga
Tel: (0131 6)50 2430
Email: laura.varga@ed.ac.uk |
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