702-231 Modern Architecture A: 19th Century

Note

The Summer Semester option is only available to mid-year and lateral entry students in BPD Architecture. Enrolments by other degree students will be considered by the Dean on an individual basis and the subject will only be available to such students on a full-fee paying basis.

Credit Points

12.5

HECS Band

2

Coordinator

Associate Professor Philip Goad

Prerequisites

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).

Semester

1, repeat Summer (view timetable)

Contact

Two lectures and one tutorial per week

Subject Description

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 5000 words, and one 90-minute examination (which may take the form of a class test).



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