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Undergraduate Course: Meanings of Classicisms (ARHI10039)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis course examines why particular architectural forms can be invested with different meanings at times and places. It explores why classicism is a recurrent phenomenon in western architecture and in some non-western cultures, especially the relationship between architecture and power.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Students should normally have passed at least 60 credits of Architectural History or History of Art/History courses at Level 8. If the pre-requisites cannot be met, entry to this course can be negotiated in consultation with either the Course Organiser or Programme Director (Architectural History).
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesVisiting students should have at least 3 Architectural History/History of Art courses at Grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this). We will only consider University/College level courses.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Demonstrate an understanding of classicism as a grammar of architecture, subject to change, according to historical and local circumstances.
  2. Critically evaluate material and documentary sources for classical architecture.
  3. Demonstrate communication skills, both verbally and in writing.
Reading List
Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, Salvatore Settis (eds)'The Classical Tradition' (Harvard UP, Cambridge 2010),

Michael Greenhalgh, 'The Classical Tradition in Art, Duckworth, London, 1978

Craig W. Kallendorf (ed.), ' A Companion to the Classical Tradition', Blackwell, Oxford, 2007

Salvatore Settis, 'The future of the classical' Polity Press, Cambridge, 2006 Robert A. M. Stern, 'Modern Classicism, Rizzoli, NY, 1988

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Keywordsclassicsm, architecture, order, authority power
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Course organiserProf Ian Campbell
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