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056-0001-01L 4 Credits NDS D-ARCH
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Architecture and the City I

Architektur und Stadt I

Lecturers & Examiners: Dr. Anne Kockelkorn, Dr. Susanne Schindler Kilian
Only for MAS in History and Theory of Architecture.
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Abstract

The seminar expands the canon of 19th century architectural history by taking into account scholarship on the birth of industrial capitalism and the second wave of European colonization around 1800. How were people governed by the new need for a new economic and hygienic rationality? How does this rationality become tangible through the close observation of architecture and urban space?

Objective

Students learn to understand the relationships between architecture, economics and politics and to articulate those relations with the necessary precision and differentiation; they learn to interrogate a series of architectural and urban objects on the basis of a research question, drawing on primary and secondary sources.

Content

Analysis of selected projects (new institutions such as museums and banks, public spaces including squares and streets, housing); reading of key primary and secondary texts of architectural theory as well as urban and cultural history; guest reviews and lectures.

Resources

Literature

Will be posted on the MAS platform.

Learning Materials (Links)

General Information

Language
German
Levels
NDS
Frequency
Yearly recurring

Examination

Type
ungraded semester performance

Registration & Places

Priority: Registration for the course unit is only possible for the primary target group

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
seminar Architektur und Stadt I
Keine Lehrveranstaltung am 23.10. (Seminarwoche), am 4. und 11.12.2020 (Individuelles Arbeiten). Unterschiedliche Kursräume: Bitte Raumbelegungen beachten!
  • Fri 12:45-16:30 (HIL H 35.1)
  • Fri 13:45-16:30 (HIT H 42)
  • 02.10 Date 11:45-13:30 (HIT H 42)
  • 02.10 Date 12:45-14:30 (HIL H 35.1)
  • 30.10 Date 11:45-16:30 (HIT H 42)
  • 30.10 Date 12:45-14:30 (HIL H 35.1)
4 h weekly

Offered In

  • MAS in History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) (The MAS-programm in "History and Theory of Architecture" is a two-year half-time course and contains 60 CP. The course starts in the autumn semester. Attendance of classes supplemented by independent research; practical training periods and excursions; lectures/seminars on one to two days per week, in total 600 ca. contact hours, in addition private study ca. 600 hours (for each in-class day one day of work preparation), two individually tutored seminar papers on chosen subjects (200 hours) and credited Master's thesis (600 hours).)