Introduction to architecture

ltarc1105  2018-2019  Tournai

Introduction to architecture
4 credits
30.0 h + 15.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Laloux Olivier; Vanhamme Catherine; Wittevrongel Bernard;
Language
French
Main themes
The topics covered in this teaching unit are designed to enable students to look to the end of their training as an architect and understand the meaning of the studies in which they will become involved.
What is architecture as a subject?
  • What is an architectural project: final outcomes, process, tools?
  • Grasping the meaning of architecture by listening to architects
  • Looking at the subject from different viewpoints, both professional and research
  • Looking at the issue of university studies, in general, and in particular the issue of architecture studies
Aims

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

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Make use of other subjects

  • Seek out other approaches, exchanges of views and ways of enhancing thinking about architecture

Adopt a professional attitude

  • Organise, plan, develop and bring together the different strands of individual work
  • Listen to and identify the different needs and points of view of the different stakeholders to be able to bring these together in respect of the desired objectives

Express an architectural procedure

  • Express ideas clearly in oral, graphic and written form

Build knowledge of architecture

  • Be able to use given references which, by analogy, can lead to other interpretations of the context

Make committed choices

  • Develop awareness of the political meaning of the work of an architect and his/her responsibility towards society
 

The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Bibliography
Pierre von Meiss, De la forme au lieu, presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 1995
Matthew Frederick, 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School, MIT Press, 2007
Francis D. K. Ching Architecture, Form, Space, and Order, third edition, John Wiley & sons, 2007
La collection de film « Architectures », co-produits par Arte France
http://corajoudmichel.nerim.net/10-textes/elements-des-9-conduites/00neuf-cond-vignettes.html
Faculty or entity
LOCI


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Bachelor in Architecture (Tournai)
ARCT1BA
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