History of architecture : contemporary issues

ltarc2140  2020-2021  Tournai

History of architecture : contemporary issues
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, the information below is subject to change, in particular that concerning the teaching mode (presential, distance or in a comodal or hybrid format).
3 credits
30.0 h
Q2
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 :

1 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
 
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
3