Course overview
Building on History Theory I, this course will expand and deepen the frameworks of historical and theoretical understanding that necessarily underpin current knowledge and practice in the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. The course focuses on the long history of Modernity (16th - 20th c.) as a process of globalisation, and its conceptual, formal, spatial and technological consequences for the development of the environmental design disciplines. Throughout the course disciplinary concerns will be considered within their social, cultural, political and environmental contexts. Students will enhance their research and academic writing skills and consider other modes of interpreting and understanding historical and theoretical concerns.
Course learning outcomes
- Identify key sites, ideas and designers in the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture (emphasis 1500-1900CE).
- Recognise key theories and design principles that underpin current knowledge and practice in the built environment disciplines.
- Apply independent research skills to interpret specific designs
- Interpret, analyse, evaluate and synthesise information from a wide variety of sources to form and express a qualified critique of a design in text and image
- Write clear and concise analytical texts and short essays which structure evidence for and against (a point of view) with appropriate referencing
- Critique relationships between design history and contemporary design discourse and practice
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