Course Details

Course Information Package

Course Unit Title

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN VI

Course Unit Code

APX302

Course Unit Details

Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Required Courses) - BA Architecture (Required Courses) -

Number of ECTS credits allocated

Learning Outcomes of the course unit

By the end of the course, the students should be able to:

Comprehend the terms of civilization and culture and how these lead to the creation of architectural forms and landscapes.
Recognize the importance of urban design in shaping of the built environment and transforming of our culture and way of life.
Identify the importance of energy management and sustainable development and react accordingly to any given design issue providing architectural proposals that clearly define their relationship to climate and energy use.
React to and manage complex design issues involving environmental, social and economic matters.
Respond in a holistic way in the design process of the built environment producing forms with aesthetic, social and cultural meanings.
Pose the right questions and initiate activities for their response in a design process.
Develop an interdisciplinary thinking and practice.
Know how to learn and how to maintain up to date knowledge on any given design issue.

Mode of Delivery

Face-to-face

Prerequisites

APX301

Co-requisites

NONE

Recommended optional program components

NONE

Course Contents

Studio’s central objective is to provide students the chance and possibility of comprehending initially the significance of urban landscape as a modern synthesis of a multifaceted ‘mosaic’ out of environmental, social, cultural, economical etc. parts. Cultural landscapes are the framework for managing this complexity and contradictions and the possibility of demarcating new relationships where each part has its own rights and the disposal of safeguarding and developing them creatively. The ability of managing all possible relationships developed in space, offers a wide range of approach since all dimensions of design require redefinition. In this sense studio is not only offered as a field of synthesizing knowledge that was acquired but also as a field of experimentation and close observation not only in environmental issues but also in all range of subjects that constituted the educational process until 5th semester (process of planning, materials, construction, urban issues, maintenance, cultural and social issues etc.

Recommended and/or required reading:

Textbooks

Σταυρίδης Στ. (επ.), Μνήμη και εμπειρία του χώρου, Αθήνα: Αλεξάνδρεια, 2006

References

Στεφάνου Ιουλία, Περιγραφή της εικόνας της πόλης, Πανεπιστημιακές Εκδόσεις ΕΜΠ, 2003
Κοτιώνης Ζήσης, 44 ιστορίες της αρχιτεκτονικής, Εκκρεμές, 2001
Angelus Eisinger, Urban Reset. How to Activate Immanent Potentials of Urban Spaces, Birkhauser, 2011
References can vary each year according to semester’s chosen subject
Course and lecture notes

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is studio based requiring teacher to student interaction through individual and group discussions.
A key project is running through semester and is supplemented by creativity projects and other smaller scale assignments.
Studio work is carried out and delivered by means of multiple media representations such as maps - charts, sketches, artwork, collage, three dimensional models, etc.
Short written texts and oral presentations before the class, are encouraged as complementary means of architectural expression.
Studio work is supplemented by means of lectures, conducted with the help of computer presentations and by means of specially selected films and documentaries, followed by discussion. Lecture notes and presentations are available through the web.
Visits to project site and related to project’s theme sites are conducted.
Special guest scientists and practitioners are invited for lectures related to studio’s subject.

Assessment methods and criteria

Creativity Assignments	10%
Class Participation	15%
Interim Assessments	15%
Final Assessment	60%

Language of instruction

Greek

Work placement(s)

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