Undergraduate Course: Texts and Theories in Western Architecture (ARHI10026)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Architecture - History |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | As a discipline, history is a matter of selecting and shaping historical data. Theory is a meditation upon the discipline and its data. The course is a study of historians, theorists and their texts. After an introduction considering the Period as the object of historical definition and as the tool of the historian, the course introduces theorists and theories of architecture from Vitruvius to Deconstruction. They are arranged chronologically so that the force of historical determinism and purposiveness of historical reflection may be gauged. The course concludes with a discussion of the proposition that cultural time moves in cycles. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Students must have honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees or honours entry to Music or by agreement of Head of Subject Area. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2012/13 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 42 |
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Friday |
| Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | | | | 11:10 - 13:00 | | Central | Lecture | | 1-11 | | 11:10 - 12:00 | | | |
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| Exam Information |
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| Main Exam Diet S1 (December) | Texts and Theories in Western Architecture | 2:00 | | |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| The students will understand that, as well as the collecting of historical data about architecture, history is the sifting and shaping of it. The bases upon which these interventions are to be understood is a matter of evolution and of philosophy. The appreciation that history, as a study, has a history is one aim of the course. The other is that it be recognised as having a philosophy. Students, conscious of the philosophical nature of architectural history, will understand the need to reflect upon their own activity. Students will acquire a notion of the changeable character of history as a practice or discipline and will consider some of the promptings to that change: social, economic or idealistic. They will understand the status of historical periods as instruments of the historian. They will become familiar with the principal theorists and historiographers of architecture. They will be introduced to the work of modern architectural-theoretical and historiographical thinkers. They will read history critically. |
Assessment Information
Coursework (50%)
1 examination (50%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Keywords | architectural theory, historiography, architectural historiography |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jim Lawson
Tel: (0131 6)50 2619
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Course secretary | Miss Claire Davies
Tel: (0131 6)50 2309
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