This course is an expansion and deepening of the content presented in prior years. It focuses on architecture, urban planning, and vernacular building traditions outside of Europe. Historically, the course spans from the dawn of history to today’s globalization. We work through the broad historical and geographic scope of the material with thematic perspectives that also include modern reception and historiography. The importance of the global field as a critical element both in the modern development of architecture and in the writing of history forms an underlying theme. The course delves primarily into a number of Asian, African, and early American architectural cultures, and ties into theories of global history and post-colonial studies.
A31H1A History and Theory of Architecture 3:1 World Architecture 6.0 credits
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Application
For course offering
Autumn 2024 Start 26 Aug 2024 programme students
Application code
50073
Content and learning outcomes
Course contents
Intended learning outcomes
Literature and preparations
Specific prerequisites
You should pass the course A11HIB History and Theory of Architecture 1: Introduction to European Architecture 7.5 credits and A21HIC History and Theory of Architecture 2: Architecture and Modernity 9.0 credits
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
To be announced at course start.
Examination and completion
If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.
Grading scale
Examination
- MOM1 - Moment 1, 6.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
Based on recommendation from KTH’s coordinator for disabilities, the examiner will decide how to adapt an examination for students with documented disability.
The examiner may apply another examination format when re-examining individual students.
Other requirements for final grade
The learning outcomes are examined through the records of the design process, and through the outcomes of the course specified assignments. To achieve the approved level (pass) students must have approved tasks, including 80% attendance at lectures, seminars, tutorials and reviews.
A reflection on the individual learning process must be handed in.
Special regulations for completion apply. The rules for completion can be found on the programme web.
Opportunity to complete the requirements via supplementary examination
Opportunity to raise an approved grade via renewed examination
Examiner
Ethical approach
- All members of a group are responsible for the group's work.
- In any assessment, every student shall honestly disclose any help received and sources used.
- In an oral assessment, every student shall be able to present and answer questions about the entire assignment and solution.