Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE II | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | APXE22 | ||||||||
Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Architectural Electives) - BA Architecture (Architectural Electives) - | ||||||||
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 | With this course Architecture Theory is introduced to the students as the necessary hermeneutical and critical link between History and Design.The aim of the course during this semester is to focus on the question of architectural thinking by emphasising on the subjective and argumentative issues steaming from contemporary as well as historical architectural projects and architects. The course presents examples of different design methods and processes and analyzes them according to the different possibilities they entail as well as according to their relative ideological and philosophical kinships. The overall theoretical exegesis of the projects and the architects discusses unveils a whole series of distinct epistemological backgrounds, whereas, it is being clearly explained that theory in architecture may not function within the same falsification and verification premises as scientific theory. The material examined is presented following an historical axis in order to demonstrated the underlying development (if not evolution) of architectural thinking. Emphasis is given to the relevant developments in art and the sciences. | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | The taught part of the course is delivered to students by means of lectures, conducted by electronic presentations. Lecture notes and pictures are given to students in electronic form.
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |