Module Code - Title:
AR4036
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HISTORY AND THEORYOF ARCHITECTURE 6
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
AR4032
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 urban history.
Syllabus:
Through lectures, discussion seminars, field trips, and writing the course will survey urban history from prehistory to the present day. The course is a broad introduction to urbanism throughout the ages, from the Paleolithic to the present day both in critical texts and first hand. Students will be exposed to the complexity of collective human inhabitations throughout the ages, both in Ireland and abroad.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
By the end of the module students should be able to:
* Identify the names, plans, locations, and images of significant urban conditions from prehistory to the present day.
* Demonstrate by argument the political, cultural, economic, and social forces that inform cities, citing examples and references.
* Demonstrate by argument the relationship between urban conditions and architecture, citing examples and drawing diagrams of these conditions.
* Be able to discuss societyÆs changing ideas of cities across time.
* Learn about and work with diverse means and methods of mapping.
* Formulate an argument through a book marshalling text and image to make a point.
* Draw conclusions and make associations across time and space about the political, cultural, and economic forces that inform the develoment of cities.
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 urban history from prehistory to the present day.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Peter Hall (1998)
Cities in Civilization
, Pantheon
Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout (1996)
The City Reader
, Routledge
Other Relevant Texts:
Stephen Graham, ed. (2004)
The Cybercities Reader
, Routledge
Malcolm Miles, Tim Hall, Ian Borden, eds. (2000)
The City Cultures Reader
, Routledge
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Module Leader:
jan.frohburg@ul.ie