A21HIC History and Theory of Architecture 2: Architecture Modernity 9.0 credits
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Application
For course offering
Autumn 2024 Start 26 Aug 2024 programme students
Application code
50066
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
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
Recommended prerequisites
Equipment
Literature
To be announced at course star
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
- 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.
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.