Module Code - Title:
AR4035
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HISTORY AND THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE 5
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
AR4034
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
The third year program in Architectural Research continues the comprehensive survey of the history of architecture and urbanism in the programme curriculum. This module exposes students to the relationship of architecture to technology and materials, both naturally occurring and those produced by man both in Ireland and globally.
The goal for the course is to give students a broad introduction to architecture throughout the ages, from the classical Greek and Roman periods to the present day while introducing them to the role that materials and technologly have in architecture.
Syllabus:
Through lectures, discussion seminars, and writing the course will survey the relationship between architecture, materials, and technology from prehistory to the present day.
Starting with the classical Greek and Roman periods, into the present day ôSilicon Age,ö both society and architecture have been profoundly influenced by materials and technology. This course will be composed of a research and readings on the period by experts in the history of science and technology, Irish history, structural engineering, materials science, structures, and the history of architecture. Students will complete their own directed research projects on a particular work of architcture, and encounter the work directly, making observations from experience with the physical object.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
By the end of the module students should be able to:
* Identify the names, architects, plans, locations, and images of significant works of architecture from prehistory to the present day.
* Identify the materials and technologies used in a given structure.
* Demonstrate by argument the political, cultural, and social forces that science and technology as well as architecture and the built environment.
* Demonstrate by argument the relationship between structural and technological development and societyÆs demands of the built environment.
* Appraise societyÆs changing ideas of the built environment across time.
* Draw conclusions and make associations across time and space about the relationship of architecture to technology, materials, and society.
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 relationship between architecture, materials, and technology from prehistory to the present day.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
1 Stephen L. Sass (1998)
The Substance of Civilization
, Arcade Publishing
Other Relevant Texts:
William McDonough, Michael Braungart (2002)
Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
, North Point Press
Alan MacFarlane, Gerry Martin (2002)
Glass: A World History
, University of Chicago Press
Jay Burreson, Penny Le Couteur (2003)
Napoleon¿s Buttons
, J. Tarcher/Putnam
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
jan.frohburg@ul.ie