History of architecture III/IV
Summary
The course investigates the history of architecture and town planning between the 17th and 19th centuries, its architects and buildings, and highlights the theoretical, artistic and technical issues involved.
Content
The course concentrates on the built environment of the seventeenth to nineteenth century, and will treat various themes that intersected with the architecture of the period. These include social relationships and urbanization, the connections between form and structure, new materials and technology, and how meaning, value, and beauty is judged in architecture. We will investigate together the multiple narratives of architectural history, globally and in Europe, in order to better answer the questions: what was architecture then and what is architecture now?
Lectures will be held in English. Students may submit assignments and ask questions in French, German, Italian, or English.
Keywords
history, representation, social, global, narrative, value, meaning
Learning Prerequisites
Required courses
Histoire de l'architecture I,II
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Contextualise
- Analyze
- Describe
- Explain
Transversal skills
- Access and evaluate appropriate sources of information.
- Demonstrate the capacity for critical thinking
- Take account of the social and human dimensions of the engineering profession.
Teaching methods
in person lecture
Expected student activities
lecture attendance, completion of short reading and writing assignments
Assessment methods
Written exam to verify comprehension of content from lectures and required readings; short writing assignments during semester
Resources
Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI)
No
Bibliography
See course moodle (forthcoming)
Moodle Link
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: History of architecture III/IV
- Lecture: 4 Hour(s) per week x 12 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: History of architecture III/IV
- Lecture: 4 Hour(s) per week x 12 weeks