Seminar course 1b: Theory and History of Architecture and Urban Design, 5 credits
Contents
The course will provide the students with an orientation of the contemporary debate on architecture and urban planning, developing an awareness of the historical, theoretical political and professional concerns and agendas that drive it. Departing from the broad overview the students will identify, explore and research a specific issue related to their work in the synthesis project.
Expected learning outcomes
For a passing result, the student should be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- clearly explain the cultural, social histories, theories, technologies, practices and creative applications of arts that influence architecture and urban design.
Competence and skills
- in writing argue and describe a specific issue or aspect of architectural urban design by analysing relevant theories, histories, processes and methods and their influence on the built environment.
Judgment and approach
- critically describe how history and theory, practices and technologies of the fine arts influence the spatial, social, and technological aspects of architecture and urban design.
- critically describe the history and theories of architecture and urban design and their influence on the planning, design and development of past and contemporary cities and built environments.
Required Knowledge
Bachelor's degree in architecture, minimum 180 ECTS or equivalent foreign degree and work samples/portfolio. English language proficiency equivalent to (the Swedish upper secondary school) English course 6/level 2.
Form of instruction
The course consists of lectures, seminars, tutorials, individual and group project work and workshops.
Examination modes
The course will be graded through group presentations in seminars where individual assessment can be ensured and through an individual written examination.
The possible grades are Pass (G) or Fail (U). To pass the course all compulsory oral, written and practical assignments must be completed with a Pass grade.
Examiners may decide to deviate from the modes of assessment in the course syllabus. Individual adaption of modes of assessment must give due consideration to the student's needs. The adaption of modes of assessment must remain within the framework of the intended learning outcomes in the course syllabus. Students who require an adapted examination must submit a request to the department holding the course no later than 10 days before the examination. The examiner decides on the adaption of the examination, after which the student will be notified.
Students who have achieved a pass are not permitted to retake an examination.
Students who do not pass an examination have the right to retake examinations. The date of the retake must be notified no later than the date of the regular examination. The first opportunity to retake an examination is to be offered no later than two months after the regular examination, but no earlier than 10 working days after students have been notified of the results of the regular examination. For examinations held in May and June, the first opportunity to retake the examination is to be offered within three months of the regular examination session. In addition, at least one further re-examination is offered within a year from the regular exam date.
A student who has taken a regular examination and retake in a course or a part of a course without obtaining a pass grade is entitled to request the appointment of another examiner or marking teacher, unless there are special reasons to the contrary. Students should address any such request to the director of studies or equivalent.
Other regulations
In the event of a course syllabus being withdrawn or undergoing major changes, students are guaranteed at least three examination opportunities (including the regular examination session) in accordance with the previous course syllabus during a maximum of two years from the expiry of the course syllabus or the discontinuation of the course.
Literature
Mandatory course literature
Mandatory course literature refers to the main and recommended literature for assimilating the course content and achieving the expected study results.
Carpo Mario
The second digital turn
: design beyond intelligence
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press :
[2017] :
x, 224 pages :
LIBRIS ID: 21936697
ISBN: 9780262534024
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Oxman Rivka
Theory and design in the first digital age
Included in:
Design studies
New York :
Butterworth Scientific Ltd :
1979- :
Available online here
Mandatory
Schumacher Patrik
Parametricism: A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design.
Included in:
Architectural design
London :
Academy Editions :
1946- :
Available online here
Mandatory
Martin Reinhold
Utopia's Ghost: Architecture and Postmodernism, Again
University of Minnesota Press :
2010 :
LIBRIS ID: 12122942
Mandatory
Notes around the Doppler Effect and Other Moods of Modernism
Somol Robert, Whiting Sarah
Included in:
Perspecta : the Yale architectural journal
New Haven, Conn. :
Schools of Architecture & Design, Yale University :
1952- :
Available online here
Mandatory
The architect as worker : immaterial labor, the creative class, and the politics of design / edited by Peggy Deamer
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LIBRIS ID: 0jt0ng5nxts649tq
ISBN: 9781472570505
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Easterling Keller
Extrastatecraft
: the power of infrastructure space
Brooklyn :
Verso :
2014 :
252 pages :
LIBRIS ID: 17112580
ISBN: 1781685878
ISBN: 9781781685877
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Reinterpreting Sustainable Architecture: The Place of Technology
Guy Simon, Farmer Graham
Included in:
Journal of architectural education
Washington, DC :
Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture :
1947- :
Available online here
Mandatory
Ecological urbanism
Mostafavi Mohsen, Doherty Gareth
Baden :
Lars Muller :
2010 :
655 s. :
LIBRIS ID: 11865064
ISBN: 3037781890
ISBN: 9783037781890
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Schmid Christian
Journeys through planetary urbanization: Decentering perspectives on the urban
Included in:
Environment and planning D: Society & space
1983-2015 :
Available online here
Mandatory
Yaneva Albena.
Mapping controversies in architecture
Farnham :
Ashgate :
c2012. :
1 online resource (xvi, 128 p.) :
LIBRIS ID: 13564658
ISBN: 9781409426691
ISBN: 1409426696
ISBN: 9781315593807
ISBN: 9781317100928
ISBN: 9781317100935
ISBN: 9781409482987
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Race and modern architecture
: a critical history from the enlightenment to the present
Cheng Irene, Davis Charles L., Wilson Mabel
Pittsburgh, Pa. :
UNIV OF PITTSBURGH PRESS :
2020 :
1 online resource ( 277 pages). :
LIBRIS ID: gvj9nfs7dpg3dkh7
ISBN: 9780822987413
ISBN: 0822987414
ISBN: 9780822946052
ISBN: 082294605X
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Mattern Shannon Christine
A city is not a computer
: other urban intelligences
Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press :
[2021] :
1 onlineresurs (187 sidor) :
LIBRIS ID: dswq0k12bs1mrcgb
ISBN: 9780691226750
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Mandatory course literature refers to the main and recommended literature for assimilating the course content and achieving the expected study results.
Kern Leslie
Feminist city
: claiming space in a man-made world
Paperback edition. :
London :
Verso :
2021 :
xiv, 206 pages :
ISBN: 9781788739825
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Freire Paulo
Pedagogy of the oppressed [electronic resource] / Paulo Freire ; translated by Myra Bergman Ramos ; with an introduction by Donald Macedo
Thirtieth anniversary edition :
2014 :
Online access for UMUB
ISBN: 9781501305313
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Harvey David
Rebel cities
: from the right to the city to the urban revolution
London :
Verso :
2013 :
xviii, 187 p. :
ISBN: 9781781680742
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Jacobs Jane
The death and life of great American cities
London :
Pimlico :
2000 :
474 s. :
ISBN: 0712665838
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