Syllabus academic year 2007/2008
TRENDS AND TRADITIONS - WITH HISTORY OF ARCHITECTUREABF021

Higher education credits: 6. Grading scale: UG. Level: A (Second level). Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. ABF021 overlap following cours/es: ABFN01. Optional for: A4. Course coordinator: Proferssor Finn Werne, finn.werne@arkitektur.lth.se och Assistant professor Anna-Maria Blennow, anna-maria.blennow@arkitektur.lth.se, Inst för arkitektur och byggd miljö. Prerequisites: Completion of six terms’ of the architect programme at LTH or an equivalent education. Assessment: Each student shall before each seminar read articles and textual extracts and take an active part in its discussions. He or she will be examined individually on his or her ability to comprehend them and independently and critically analyse them, and on his or her participation in discussions. A mimimum of an eighty-per-cent attendance is required. Further information: The course is open to all who meet the prerequisite standards but is particularly recommended to students who have chosen course ABF 150 Architecture and Culture I.

Aim
The course offers students individually the possibility of going more deeply into questions of architectural theory and history and to be educated in being more active in analysing and thinking critically about a variety of texts. It also aims to stimulate their interest in research into architecture and its history by introducing them to researchers working in various subject areas, and by questions affecting some important theoretical and historical themes of architecture and their relationships with the emergence of "the modern project" and its relationships with changes to cultural traditions.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents
The course comprises mainly seminars and close readings of given texts, as well as lectures and study trips; discussions that begin with literature and lectures are given great weight. Questions are addressed in their historical, ideological cultural, social and societal contexts. Themes for this course and its arrangement can vary, depending upon the current theme for Clio (part of course ABF150 0206).

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Literature
Literature varies from course to course and is revealed when a course begins.