Theory of Architecture : contemporary issues

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

Specific learning outcomes:

By the end of this course, students will be able to

• recall the concepts covered during the first years of study and deepen their thinking on architecture in relation to current society.
• analyse the theoretical and spatial issued raised by contemporary architecture since 1950.
• place this analysis in the framework of different schools of thinking which have contributed, since the post war period, to a critical reinterpretation of modern language and its theoretical foundation.
• develop architectural criticism and self criticism to understand architectural works, particularly contemporary ones.

Contribution to the learning outcomes reference network:

Build knowledge of architecture

• Be familiar with and analyse the discipline¿s basic references
• Develop knowledge and become an active participant in the learning process

Make use of other subjects

• Seek out other approaches, exchanges of views and ways of enhancing thinking about architecture
• Bring all this back to the original discipline

Use the technical dimension

• Observe and assess the main construction principles that give architecture a formal, material and temporal dimension

 Make committed choices

• Make links between different methodological and epistemological perspectives