Architecture and the Modern City (HART0106)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
Teaching department: History of Art
Credit value: 30

Restrictions: This module is only available to final-year BA History of Art students, including BA History of Art, Materials and Technology, and including final-year students who are taking a combined-honours degree which includes History of Art in the programme title. The module is also available to affiliate students enrolled in the History of Art Department for a full academic year, and available to BASc Arts & Sciences (Cultures pathway) students who have previously completed a FHEQ Level 5 or 6 module in History of Art.
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

Architecture is inhabitable, multi-dimensional space. But film, photography, drawings and texts provide much of our understanding of architecture and the modern city. This module asks what different forms of architectural dissemination can tell us about the design and meaning of buildings and urban space. How does cinema, television and radio represent architecture to a mass public? How has architecture become a touchstone in the art of comics? How do written texts including guidebooks and magazines communicate architectural knowledge to diverse audiences? How do manifestos and the architecture book transmit new ideas about architectural design? Asking these questions, we will explore how historians have used these different modes of architectural representation to write the history of architecture in the twentieth century. Finally, we will consider how these varied artefacts continue to inspire architecture and urban design.

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Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Terms 1 and 2 听听听 Undergraduate (FHEQ Level 6)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 10% Viva or oral presentation

90% Coursework
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 15
Module leader: Dr Jacob Paskins

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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