COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: HISTORY OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE III

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
ARCH 224	A	4	3	0	0	3	4

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	Assoc.Prof.Dr. Edmond Manahasa emanahasa@epoka.edu.al
Main Course Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Assoc.Prof.Dr. Edmond Manahasa emanahasa@epoka.edu.al , Tuesday 14:00-15:00
Second Course Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Compulsory
Study program: (the study for which this course is offered)	Integrated second cycle study program in Architecture (5 years)
Classroom and Meeting Time:	A-127, 10:45 – 13:30 Wednesday
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Code of Ethics:	Code of Ethics of EPOKA University Regulation of EPOKA University "On Student Discipline"
Attendance Requirement:	N/A
Course Description:	Period of Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Classicism in art and Architecture. Developments in 19th and 20th centuries: Arts and Crafts, Art-Noveau, Art-Deco, Jugendstill, Avant-garde, modernism, postmodernism and current debates in Western Architecture.
Course Objectives:	To gain an awareness and understanding of the historical evolution of principal architectural movements, building types, and key historical monuments from the Enlightenment to High Tech Ecological Architecture. To understand the forces that philosophy, literature, art, economics, climate, building technology, past architecture and architects have on the development of architects design thinking. To understand that buildings and urban spaces can reflect or express philosophical, religious, political and economic forces. To develop critical thinking skills through the research and writing of a coherent history paper with a meaningful thesis.

BASIC CONCEPTS OF THE COURSE

1	Learning Modern and Contemporary Architecture Design Principles

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Introduction
2	Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau,
3	Vienna Secession+The Chicago School & Luis Sullivan
4	The 20th century, Modernism, Adolf Laos, Early Wright
5	Deutcher Werkbund, Futurism, Constructivism, Dutch & German Expressionism
6	Art Deco, De Stijl, Early Corbu
7	Holiday
8	Midterm
9	Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe
10	Late Career FL Wright and Late Le Corbussier
11	Expressionism: Aalto & Eero Sarinen, Late Modernism and Pre Postmodern: Kahn
12	Postmodernism: Robert Venturi, Phillip Johnson, Charles Moore
13	Deconstructivism: Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhas
14	Students Term Project Presentations + Tirana City Spine Trip

Prerequisite(s):	No
Textbook(s):
Additional Literature:
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	To learn artistic and architectural values of the periods mentioned above
2	To encourage the skill of creating new designs by using the previous experiences
3	To understand and interpret architecturally a modern and contemporary building

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Integrated second cycle study program in Architecture (5 years) Program

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)	1	40
Project	1	15
Final Exam	1	45
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	14	2	28
Mid-terms	1	6	6
Assignments	1	4	4
Final examination	1	14	14
Other			0
Total Work Load:			100
Total Work Load/25(h):			4
ECTS Credit of the Course:			4

CONCLUDING REMARKS BY THE COURSE LECTURER

Students gain skills in understanding modern movement and contemporary architecture