Formative Ideas in Architecture

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2014:

120 Hours

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This subject will examine the importance of formative ideas in architecture design, culture, technology. practice and history from the Enlightenment to early Modernism.

The subject will include study of the following themes: enlightenment, the rise of archaeology and neo-classicism; the emerging language of Modernity including the picturesque and revivalism; the industrial revolution and its implications for new modes of engineering and functionalism; the rise of the architecture, landscape and planning professions; designing and documenting the modern metropolis; colonialism and imperialism across the world; visualising the history of architecture.

Architectural precedents will be considered within their social, cultural, environmental and landscape contexts and analysed through concerns such as spatial organisation, technologies and theories of architecture as expressed in key texts and ideas. International influence and exchange will be examined through comparison to Australian and local significant sites and buildings.

On completion of this subject, students will be able to:

• demonstrate an understanding of key concepts in the history of architecture;
• analyse buildings, places and architecture images in terms of their context, form, planning, & theoretical ideas;
• demonstrate an understanding of architecture as a form of social representation.

• Drawn / verbal and written tutorial exercises, due between weeks 2 - 12, (30%.).
• An illustrated report to the equivalent of 1500-words, due week 10, (35%).
• A two-hour end-of-semester examination, exam period, (35%).

Subject Reader

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

• Analysis of physical artifacts in their historical context.
• Understanding of history as a discipline and as a process.
• Understanding of the social, cultural and environmental context of architecture.
• Familiarity with reading key texts and images in the history of architecture.
• Writing and presentation skills to undergraduate standard.
  
• Use and understanding of architecture terminology.