Postgraduate Course: Modern Architecture in Russia, 1890-1940 (ARCH11236)

Course Outline
School	Edinburgh College of Art	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	20	ECTS Credits	10
Summary	The first decades of the twentieth century witnessed revolutionary transformations in the cultural and political life of the Russian world. In this period architecture both responded to and accelerated processes of aesthetic and social change. This course examines the architecture of the Russian Empire and, in turn, the Soviet Union from the 1890s to the 1930s.
Course description	The course will describe the emergence of distinctly Russian approaches to modern design before World War I and the role of Classicism in the formation of early Soviet architecture. It will also address the development of Constructivism, Rationalism and other approaches to architecture and the city. Special attention will be devoted to the international dimension of Russian and Soviet architecture. The work of Fedor Shekhtel, Ivan Fomin, Ivan Zholtovskii, Konstantin Melnikov, the Vesnin brothers, Ivan Leonidov, among others, will be addressed in detail. Students will gain a sophisticated understanding of the complex relationships between architecture and the political, cultural, and technological revolutions that characterize this period.

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to: advanced knowledge and understanding of architecture in Russia and the Soviet Union in the period c1890 and c1940 critical understanding of the cultural and political context of architectural production in the period covered by this course an ability to reflect critically on architecture¿s role in social change a sophisticated understanding of the complex relationship between aesthetics and politics in architecture