History of architecture : contemporary issues

Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.

3 credits

30.0 h

Teacher(s)

Pouillon Henry;

Language

French

Main themes

Critical review of recent architecture
Demonstration and testing of sequencing and materiality for conceptual ideas relating to architectural procedures
Siting contemporary work in relation to the classical tradition, modern and post-modern approaches

Aims

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

The History of Architecture teaching unit is designed to provide a set of references. It will however avoid considering history as merely a reservoir of examples, but attempt to analyse it 'historically', i.e. to put these examples in their context to gain better understanding of their deep meaning.
The main objective of the unit is to examine and (attempt to) understand architecture as a complex phenomenon, at the same time intellectual, physical and social in nature and what it means, taking a strictly historical approach.
Specific learning outcomes:
By the end of this course, students will be able to

be familiar with the relative chronology and the link between the successive contributions of some major designers.
analyse the products and 'theories' which have grown in number since the Renaissance.
analyse products as a reflection of ideology and power.

Contribution to the learning outcomes reference network:
Build knowledge of architecture

Be familiar with and analyse the discipline's basic references
Be able to use given references which, by analogy, can lead to other interpretations of the context
Develop knowledge and become an active participant in the learning process

Place the action

Identify and analyse the paradigms on which the study is based according to various given methods and starting from various points of view
Formulate questions relating to the development of the context being studied to make working hypotheses

Make use of other subjects

Make strategic use of other subjects to put into question the design and implementation of an architectural project

Express an architectural procedure

Test and use relevant means of communication in relation to the intended audience and the target objectives

Make committed choices

Make links between different methodological and epistemological perspectives

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

Berlin. Le génie de l’improvisation, Parenthèses, 2017.
Breda. Faire la ville durable, Le Moniteur, 2008.
Nicolas Bruno JACQUET, Le langage hypermoderne de l’architecture, Parenthèses, 2014
Jacques LUCAN, Composition, non-composition. Architecture et théories , XIXe-XXe siècles, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2017.
Jacques LUCAN, Précisons sur un état présent de l’architecture, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2016.
Bruno ZEVI, Le langage moderne de l’architecture. Pour une approche anticlassique, Parenthèse, 2016.
à suivre...

ps : il s'agit des dates des dernières éditions

Faculty or entity

LOCI

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

Title of the programme

Sigle

Credits

Prerequisites

Aims

Master [120] in Architecture (Tournai)

ARCT2M