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A21HIC History and Theory of Architecture 2: Architecture Modernity 9.0 credits

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Termin

Information for Autumn 2025 Start 25 Aug 2025 programme students

Course location

KTH Campus

Duration
25 Aug 2025 - 1 Jun 2026
Periods

Autumn 2025: P1 (0.5 hp), P2 (5.0 hp)

Spring 2026: P3 (1.5 hp), P4 (2.0 hp)

Pace of study

17%

Application code

50125

Form of study

Normal Daytime

Language of instruction

Swedish

Course memo
Course memo is not published
Number of places

Min: 5

Target group

ARKIT study year 2

Planned modular schedule
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Schedule
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Contact

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Course syllabus as PDF

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Course syllabus A21HIC (Spring 2023–)
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Content and learning outcomes

Course contents

This course provides a deeper look at the development of architecture and architectural theory, with an emphasis on the twentieth century but with a look back at the eighteenth and nineteenth as well. We study the historiography of modern architecture, and the course reflects on how we can broaden our perspectives in the writing of history and the models we use for analysis. We also address urban planning issues, with particular emphasis on the relation between modernity and urbanism. The course illuminates architectural practice and theories from various perspectives, including politics, gender, class, ethnicity, media, and consumption.

The course is divided into two parts.

Intended learning outcomes

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Literature and preparations

Specific prerequisites

 You should have passed the course A11HIB History and Theory of Architecture 1: Introduction to European Architecture 7.5 credits

Literature

You can find information about course literature either in the course memo for the course offering or in the course room in Canvas.

Examination and completion

If the course is discontinued, students may request to be examined during the following two academic years.

Grading scale

P, F

Examination

  • MOM1 - Moment 1, 6.0 credits, grading scale: P, F
  • MOM2 - Moment 2, 3.0 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.

Special regulations for completion apply. The rules for completion can be found on the programme web.

Examiner

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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.

Further information

Course room in Canvas

Registered students find further information about the implementation of the course in the course room in Canvas. A link to the course room can be found under the tab Studies in the Personal menu at the start of the course.

Offered by

ABE/Architecture, Culture and Environment

Main field of study

Architecture, Technology

Education cycle

First cycle