Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | BACULT09 | ||||||||
Course Unit Details | BA Architecture (Architecture, City, Civilisation) - | ||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 3 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | NONE | ||||||||
Course Contents |
STUDIO’S TOPIC-Contemporary architects and their works: Five projects are studied from the list of selected contemporary architects. The method of study comes from their central idea, according to their spatial organization, functional, spatial, morphological and technological solution,and until their construction details. Apart from the description, analysis and criticism that the students perform on the works, a post-synthesis proposal of some selected projects is assessed. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | Structure of Studio’s project: The course is both theoretical and laboratorial. Its development is as follows: Presentations and corrections are prepared in power point by the students. During the presentations the works of the preselected well-known architects will be discussed. Presentations/Corrections: The presentations/corrections are arranged with the instructor of the course and last 15 minutes per team. Each team presents their work at least four (4) times during the semester. Each team chooses an architect, studies his philosophy of design within a global context: Works by program, Chronological development of the works and others.Then each team presents the most important works of the architect within a structural framework: the location, the relationship with the environment, functionality, morphology, spatiality, the Static /constructive system. Report:The report should contain the detailed presentation of the topic through a text of about one thousand (1000) words and include as many images needed to complete pictographically the analysis. Corrections/Final Presentation: Throughout each lecture-studio, ?comments and corrections of each team’s work are made by the instructor during the students’ presentations. Three key elements are considered for the grading of the work: Reading, Thought and Presentation Final Presentation: In this last stage of the course all the work is presented in Power Point of all the teams and each team presents their final work for the final grade. Whichever team does not present their work four (4) times during the course is not graded. | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |