Aims: To provide a summary of key architectural movements from early modern to recent periods, alongside an overview of the historical, social and technological developments that influenced the production of built structures.
Learning Outcomes:
The students will be able to demonstrate an awareness of the outline development of modern architecture; a basic knowledge of a number of key buildings (including names, dates and definitions), and of their historical significance, and will be equipped with the tools and vocabulary of elementary architectural appreciation, which they should be able to express via writing in combination with annotated sketched and notes.
Skills:
Sketching, note-taking, assimilation of historical data, historical understanding.
Content:
A series of chronologically arranged lectures present key periods and movements relating to the development of architecture. Significant architectural monuments are described with reference to their cultural and physical context, and with emphasis on vocabulary, the characteristics and the type of construction that typify the movement and style to which they belong. This unit begins at 1900 and ends at the present day.
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