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Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: Dr Philip Goad.
Prerequisite: Any level one fine arts/architectural history subject offered by the Faculty of Arts or the Faculty of Architecture and Planning (or permission of the Head of Department).
Contact: Two lectures and one tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to demonstrate that they:
- understand the sources and historical development of modern architecture, building construction, landscape architecture and urban planning from the late-18th to the early-20th centuries; and are familiar with representative examples;
- have developed an appreciation of the formative and early modern traditions in the design of the built environment, by establishing an overall cultural framework within which an individual building or place can be located and assessed;
- have developed skills in the understanding and analysis of buildings and places in terms of their context, form, planning, spatial effects, construction, function and social role;
- have developed skills in information gathering and critical synthesis, essay and report writing, and visual and oral presentation techniques required for the independent interpretation of these insights.
Content:
The formative aspects of architecture from the late-18th to the early-20th centuries, with special emphasis on British architecture and associated activity in the fields of engineering and building construction, town development and landscape architecture. Detailed studies of various periods within this broad spectrum are made, exploring issues of spatial organisation, construction, architectural theory, architectural grammar, the physical, social and economic context of building, and the role of the architect in society.
Assessment:
An essay, class papers, exercises (drawn or written), and a visual test, to the equivalent of not more than 5,000 words, and one 90 minute examination (which may take the form of a class test). Details, including the weighting of assessment, will be made available in the first two weeks of semester.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning (Volume 4 page 50)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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