Module Details
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Title ARCHITECTURAL THEORIES FROM 1900 TO THE PRESENT
Code ARCH712
Coordinator Dr C Malathouni
Architecture
C.Malathouni@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2018-19 Level 7 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims
The module aims to introduce a broad framework of architectural concepts, themes and theories that have influenced the field of architecture globally from 1900 to the present. This framework can then serve as the critical foundation for design modules as well as the final 60-credit design project or dissertation.
The module also aims to introduce study, research and writing skills and methodologies and to link rigorous academic practices to real life and employment-related scenarios.
Finally, the module aims to provide opportunities for the development of presentation, groupwork and time management skills via a variable and flexible seminar series and multiple activities throughout the semester.

Learning Outcomes
Students will have the ability to identify a range of theories that have been influential in the field of architecture from 1900 onwards.

Students will have the ability to recognise and discuss the significance and evolution of key concepts and themes and how these reflect the development of architectural trends from 1900 onwards.

Students will have the ability to evaluate the content and different perspectives of various written architectural sources.

Students will have the ability to research, situate historically, critique and present visually and verbally – orally and in writing – the relationship of specific theories to relevant built or unbuilt architectural projects or to the oeuvre of an architect or an architectural practice.

Students will have the ability to plan and manage a written project.

Students will have the ability to prepare a well-documented, referenced and appropriately illustrated academic essay.

Students will have the ability to use well-documented and referenced research in a shorter written format appropriate for real life or employment-related purposes.


Syllabus
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The module syllabus commences with an introduction to the principal tenets of Modernism, one of the most influential architectural developments in the early decades of the twentieth-century. In parallel to key concepts and texts, it briefly discusses links to earlier approaches that led to modernism, particular strands within modernism, as well as significant diversions from mainstream modernism.
The rest of the syllabus will review subsequent development of, or challenges to, modernist positions. These will be organised under broad thematic headings and the discussion will be largely comparative, juxtaposing the wide range of alternative approaches within these themes. In addition to key concepts, theories, and texts, the module will review landmark architectural figures, projects and events that relate to the theoretical positions discussed.
Selected topics, texts and projects may vary from year to year but will broadly cover the following themes: architectural historiography; aesthetics and other philosophical approaches; form, space, place and phenomenology; critical regionalism, globalisation and (post-)colonialism; post-modernism, historicism and semiotics; post-structuralism and deconstruction; human identities (gender, race, and psychoanalysis); society and politics; nature, environment, sustainability and ecology; cities and urbanism.

Teaching and Learning Strategies

Lecture - Weekly sessions through the semester will be structured as combined lecture and seminar sessions.
Each lecture will introduce the themes for presentations, readings and discussion in the following week.
The first weekly session will cover study and research skills, as well as an introduction to resources available in the University and elsewhere.

Seminar - Weekly sessions throughout the semester will be structured as combined lecture and seminar sessions.
Seminars will include student presentations and guided discussion on themes introduced the week before. On a weekly basis, all students will be expected to do pre-selected readings and participate in discussion in the classroom. In selected weeks, students will also be expected to contribute a group or individual presentation.

Tutorial - Two weekly sessions towards the end of the semester will be dedicated to group and individual tutorials on the students’ individual coursework, further supporting the development of research, writing and presentation skills.


Teaching Schedule
  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours 10
Weekly sessions through the semester will be structured as combined lecture and seminar sessions. Each lecture will introduce the themes for presentations, readings and discussion in the following week. The first weekly session will cover study and research skills, as well as an introduction to resources available in the University and elsewhere.
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Weekly sessions throughout the semester will be structured as combined lecture and seminar sessions. Seminars will include student presentations and guided discussion on themes introduced the week before. On a weekly basis, all students will be expected to do pre-selected readings and participate in discussion in the classroom. In selected weeks, students will also be expected to contribute a group or individual presentation.
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Two weekly sessions towards the end of the semester will be dedicated to group and individual tutorials on the students’ individual coursework, further supporting the development of research, writing and presentation skills.
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Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 124
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment
EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)		 % of
final
mark		 Resit/resubmission
opportunity		 Penalty for late
submission		 Notes
Coursework  15 minutes  Semester 1, weeks 8-9.  0  No reassessment opportunity    Seminar presentations (formative assessment only). There is no reassessment opportunity, Formative assessment only. 
Coursework  3,000 words  Semester 1, during the Assessm  70  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Academic essay. 
Coursework  500-1,000 words   Semester 1, during the Assessm  15  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Real life / employment-related dissemination summary 1. 
Coursework  500 words  Semester 1, during the Assessm  15  Yes  Standard UoL penalty applies  Real life / employment-related dissemination summary 2. Notes (applying to all assessments) Formative Assessment: Assessment no. 1; Summative Assessment: Assessment nos. 2-4. 

Recommended Texts
Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.
Explanation of Reading List:

The Reading List is being updated this semester in preparation for next academic year''s delivery.