Syllabus 2011/2012 ABVF05

Syllabus academic year 2011/2012
(Created 2011-09-01.)

ARCHITECTURE IN DEVELOPMENT

ABVF05

Credits: 3. Grading scale: UG. Cycle: G2 (First Cycle). Main field: Architecture; Technology. Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish. Compulsory for: A3. Course coordinator: Professor Mats Edström, mats.edstrom@byggark.lth.se, Architecture and Restoration. Prerequisites: All courses in the architecture programme at LTH in 1:st and 2:nd year with except for courses AAHA15 and AAHF05. Assessment: Successfully to complete the course, a student must attend not less than eighty per cent of the lectures and study visits; actively take part in preliminary and final assessments; and gain approval for his or her project. Home page: http://www.bv.lth.se.

Aim
The course aims to give knowledge of, and an ability to discuss, urban development, its architectural values, qualities and values to be conserved in units of architecture and the environment, as well as the architecture of what can be built on vacant urban sites.

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

understand how new architecture is adapted to old
understand and analyse the functional and technical state of, and culture-historical values of old architecture as the basis for planning its renewal

Skills and abilities
For a passing grade the student must

be able to evaluate the starting points of ideas that originally informed existing buildings
be able to argue convincingly in favour of and if necessary defend his or her opinions
have developed his or her abilities to think creatively and critically, and independently to resolve problems

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

be able, in relation to the architectural quality of and needs for renewal of a given building, to evaluate present preconditions conserving and renewing it

Contents
The course addresses the history of architecture in development from a dynamical perspective of tranformation. Temporal periods and preservation qualities are discussed.

Its principal themes are:

the theory and practice of restauration
to make an inventory of and evaluate buildings of culture-historical value that are worth conserving
different strategies about deliberately planned change and transformation of culture-historical buildings and enviornment
the architecture of change
gentrification and other renewals
the theory and practice of the architecture of vacant urban sites, infill.
codex, charters and organisations within restauration and renewal

Literature
Feilden, B. Conservation of Historic Buildings, Architectural Press, 2003. ISBN: 0 7506 5863 0
ICOMOS, Charters, www.icomos.com (2006-09-13)
Schönbeck, B: Stad i förvandling: uppbyggnadsepoker och rivningar i svenska städer från industrialismens början till idag. Byggforskningsrådet 1994. ISBN: 91-540-5641-1
Jokilehto, J. A History of Architectural Conservation. Elsevier 1999. ISBN: 0 7506 5511 9