Architecture, Basic Course C2

Description

One of four basic courses during the student’s first two years, this course aims to give him or her step-by-step a basic knowledge and ability to use an architect’s equipment and understand the arts of giving architectural form and perceiving spatial conditions, and how individual buildings and towns are technically built and used. He or she learns how with these means to give form to buildings in a spatial context by working and investigating creatively, to take account of various factors in expressing architectural ideas; and to use drawings, sketches, models, written texts and images to communicate with others. This course (C) emphasizes an urban building's relationships to the architectural conditions of the town. Knowledge and understanding For a passing grade the student must individually, but with support from a teacher describe the growth and change of a town with particular reference to it as a context for an architectural project. individually, but with support from a teacher describe and analyse the architectural qualities of a town with particular reference to the interplay of aesthetical, spatial and functional aspects, and be able to balance them in a project that he or she creates individually. Competences and skills For a passing grade the student must individually, but with support from a teacher make a contextual architectural analysis individually, but with support from a teacher in discussing existing towns and in presenting his or her own project, use relevant architectural terms and concepts. individually, but with support from a teacher using appropriate drawings and models and make an oral presentation of an urban environment for his or her fellow students and their teachers. The presentation should mediate the architectural ideas of this environment clearly, correctly and in a well-ordered way. It should also demonstrate a well-developed precision, firmness of expression, and a deliberate graphical skill. Judgement and approach For a passing grade the student must individually, but with support from a teacher compare and evaluate various urban environments with special respect to their architectural values and the values placed on them by various groups of people in various situations. individually, but with support from a teacher in the absence of given instructions, independently seek for knowledge and resolutions in a design process. Teaching proceeds in lectures, projects, exercises, seminars, study trips, workshops and written work. The main emphasis is on teaching students to consider and present what they have learned in the form of drawings, models, sketches, images, texts and other relevant media. At the end of each term each student’s work is assembled in a portfolio that is used in a pedagogic discussion with him or her. The project work and exercises of this course include theory, analysis and applied gestalt of an urban environment, in which its spatial qualities—movement within it, the proportions of its rooms, its light, functions, dimensions and socio-cultural aspects—are investigated. In addition, students are trained in artistic techniques. LTH programme course for Architecture. Choice group: mandatory. Language: The course will be given in Swedish. Suitable for foreign students: False. Assumed prior knowledge flag: 0. Entry requirements flag: 1.