Syllabus academic year 2008/2009
(Created 2008-07-17.)
ARCHITECTURE AND CULTURE, THEORETICAL COURSEABFN10

Higher education credits: 6. Grading scale: UG. Level: A (Second level). Language of instruction: The course might be given in English. ABFN10 overlap following cours/es: ABF150. Optional for: A4. Course coordinator: Professor Tomas Wikström, tomas.wikstrom@arkitektur.lth.se, Inst för arkitektur och byggd miljö. Prerequisites: Completion of six terms of the architect program at LTH or an equivalent education. The course might be cancelled if the numer of applicants is less than 10. The number of participants is limited to 25 Selection criteria: Earlier courses. Sum of points. Interviews. Assessment: Teaching takes place through project assignments, exercises, lectures, seminars, study trips, workshops and written work. Emphasis is put on students’ ability to carry out and present an architectural project in the form of drawings, models, sketches, images, writing or other relevant media. Examinations are usually of each student individually, but can be made of group work. Assignments are examined on one or more occasions where the student presents his or her project orally for fellow students, teachers, the examiner and on occasion one or more guest critics. The quality of the project and its presentation is then discussed and evaluated. Within three working days of the final presentation of the project, the student concerned will be informed whether it has passed. To pass the whole course the student must have submitted all material required and have all assignments and exercises handed in. Furthermore the student must have attended a minimum of eighty per cent of all lectures, workshops, critics and scheduled exercises in the studio. If the project does not pass, the student is entitled to be re-examined after completing or revising the project. The examiner shall inform the student what is required to pass. Further information: This course is compulsory for students who follow Architecture & Culture (18 hp). As far as there is room, other students, who fulfil admission prerequisites and have an architecture project they want to go deeper into, may also attend the course.

Aim
This course aims to develop each student’s knowledge about contemporary tendencies within architecture and urban design as well as about recent research on architecture and society, all closely related the student’s design project.

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
This course aims at stimulating students, primarily those who follow the ABF150 0106 course, to develop further their own judgments about architecture. This is achieved by working with model examples and theories, by seminars and a longer study trip to a European city.

Literature
Literature that varies from term to term is specified at the beginning of the course.