Module Code - Title:
AR4034
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HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 4
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
AR4033
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The second year program in Architectural Research provides students with a comprehensive survey of the history of architecture and urbanism. In the second semester students will continue to hone the specific cognitive skills required to address the field, deepening their knowledge of the local and global built domain while reading, writing, and researching architecture. The second year program revolves around intensive workshops and seminars.
Syllabus:
Continuing the survey from the first term, the period covered will be from 1945 to the present day, course will survey not simply the history of modern architecture, but the history of environmental, structural, and social systems in such terms. The course is composed of Lectures, seminars, writing workshops, together with research papers.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
By the end of the module students should be able to:
* Have a thorough knowledge of the significant movements within architecture during the modern period and be able to relate them to the cultural and social transformations occurring over the same period.
* Formulate a thesis and defend it within a written critique of the built environment.
* Demonstrate progress in the evaluation of a work of architecture within itÆs social, cultural, and political context.
* Gain further appreciation for the political, cultural, and social forces that shape our thinking about architecture and the built environment.
* Gain further understanding of the relationship between structural and technological development and societyÆs demands of the built environment.
* Gain further understanding of societyÆs changing ideas of the built environment across time.
* Formulate a coherent and reasoned argument in a medium length paper.
* Draw conclusions and make associations across time and space.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
see above
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
see above
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
Through lectures, discussion seminars, and writing the course will survey the history of modern architecture, close tracking the history of environmental, structural, and social systems of the modern period.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Giedion, S (1960)
Space, Time and Architecture
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Banham, Reyner (1962)
Theory and Design in the First Machine Age
, Butterworth Architecture
Other Relevant Texts:
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
Dulmini.Perera@ul.ie