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Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus
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NA
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Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address
and signature) and Office Hours:
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Odeta Manahasa
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Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email
address and signature) and Office Hours:
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NA
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| Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours: |
NA
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| Language: |
English
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| Compulsory/Elective: |
Elective
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| Course Description: |
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| Course Objectives: |
The course will look at key shifts in architectural thought and debates over the last four decades. The approach of the course will be to address current day problems, projecting back into the past in order to offer something of a historical "frame" to understand the present. The course begins by looking at four or five issues in architecture understood to be critical for present times: globalization, technology, cognitive sciences, the environment, and cultural politics. The course then reaches back over the last fifty years to establish precedents for these current-day preoccupations in architectural and critical terms. The above topics will be seen to have formal or theoretical resonances in a host of architectural movements: the technofantasist movements of the 1960s, "post-modern" semiosis, phenomenology, Third World "social modernism", vernacularism, post-modernism, cybernetics, and so on. Students will look at buildings, writing and movements as part of the evolving critiques of modernism from the 1950s onwards; in doing so, the students will come to examine the manner in which modernism was both critically unraveled and reinvented at different moments of its aftermath.
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Program Competencies |
Cont. |
| Doctorate (PhD) in Architecture Program |
| 1 |
Speaking and Writing Skills Ability to read, write, listen, and speak effectively |
5 |
| 2 |
Critical Thinking Skills Ability to raise clear and precise questions, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions, and test them against relevant criteria and standards |
5 |
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Graphics Skills Ability to use appropriate representational media, including freehand drawing and computer technology, to convey essential formal elements at each stage of the programming and design process |
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Research Skills Ability to gather, assess, record, and apply relevant information in architectural course work |
5 |
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Formal Ordering Systems Understanding of the fundamentals of visual perception and the principles and systems of order that inform two- and three-dimensional design, architectural composition, and urban design |
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| 6 |
Fundamental Design Skills Ability to use basic architectural principles in the design of buildings, interior spaces, and sites |
2 |
| 7 |
Collaborative Skills Ability to recognize the varied talent found in interdisciplinary design project teams in professional practice and work in collaboration with other students as members of a design team |
3 |
| 8 |
International Traditions Understanding of the International architectural canons and traditions in architecture, landscape and urban design, as well as the climatic, technological, culture-economic, and other cultural factors that have shaped and sustained them |
4 |
| 9 |
National and Regional Traditions Understanding of national traditions and the local regional heritage in architecture, landscape design and urban design, including the vernacular tradition |
4 |
| 10 |
Use of Precedents Ability to incorporate relevant precedents into architecture and urban design projects |
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| 11 |
Conservation and Restoration of Historical Districts Knowledge on historical districts and the gain of conservation consciousness documentation of historical buildings and the understanding the techniques which are needed to prepare restoration projects. |
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| 12 |
Human Behavior Understanding of the theories and methods of inquiry that seek to clarify the relationship between human behavior and the physical environment |
3 |
| 13 |
Human Diversity Understanding of the diverse needs, values, behavioral norms, physical ability, and social and spatial patterns that characterize different cultures and individuals and the implication of this diversity for the societal roles and responsibilities of architects |
3 |
