Course syllabus

Architecture, Basic Course B1
Arkitektur, baskurs B (åk 1)

AAHA10, 18.0 credits, G1 (First Cycle)

Valid for: 2024/25
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering LTH
Decided by: PLED A
Date of Decision: 2024-04-16
Effective: 2024-05-08

General Information

Main field: Architecture Depth of study relative to the degree requirements: First cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Mandatory for: A1
Language of instruction: The course will be given in Swedish

Aim

One of four basic courses during the student’s first two years, this course aims to give him or her step-by-step a basic knowledge and ability to use an architect’s equipment and understand the arts of giving architectural form and perceiving spatial conditions, and how individual buildings and towns are technically built and used.

The student learns how with these means to give form to buildings and built environments in a spatial context by working and investigating creatively, to take account of various factors in expressing architectural ideas; and to use drawings, sketches, models, written texts and images to communicate with others.

In this course (B) emphasis is given to the architecture of dwellings, its relationships to those who live in them and their surroundings.

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must

Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must

Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must

Contents

Teaching is mediated through lectures, project and other exercises, seminars, study trips, workshops and written work. The greatest emphasis is on teaching students to work on and present tasks in the form of drawings, models, sketches, illustrations, writing and other relevant media. At the end of each term each student’s tangible material will be assembled in what is called a portfolio that is used as the basis for an individual pedagogical discussion with him or her.

The projects and exercises of the course focus on giving form to dwellings and houses and their immediate surroundings. The student shall investigate the relationships between a dwelling and its location and spatial context and the building’s design and its functional, cultural and aesthetical qualities. The course includes various forms of support, among them digital presentation and modelling and various artistic techniques.

Examination details

Grading scale: UG - (U, G) - (Fail, Pass)
Assessment:

To obtain a passing mark, all submission requirements must be met, all projects and exercises must be submitted, approved and compiled in a portfolio. In addition, the student must have at least 80% attendance at workshops, lectures and scheduled practice time and supervision. The examination will take place both individually and based on group work. Project tasks must be submitted in advance before the examination and will be examined at a critique where the student first presents their project orally to the student group and then the project is discussed by an assessment group.

The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.

Modules
Code: 0115. Name: Part 1.
Credits: 9.0. Grading scale: UG - (U, G). Assessment: To obtain a passing mark each student shall have made all submissions required; and handed in, and got approved, all projects and exercises. In addition he or she shall have achieved at least an approved result on each examination; attended at least eighty per cent of all lectures, workshops and pre-arranged exercises with assistants in drafting and in learning to use computers.
Code: 0215. Name: Part 2.
Credits: 9.0. Grading scale: UG - (U, G). Assessment: To obtain a passing mark each student shall have made all submissions required; and handed in, and got approved, all projects and exercises. In addition he or she shall have achieved at least an approved result on each examination; attended at least eighty per cent of all lectures, workshops and pre-arranged exercises with assistants in drafting and in learning to use computers.

Admission

The number of participants is limited to: No
Kursen överlappar följande kurser: AAHA15 AAH135

Reading list

Contact

Course coordinator: Andreea Marcu, andreea.marcu@arkitektur.lth.se
Course coordinator: Jesús Mateo, jesus.mateo@arkitektur.lth.se
Course coordinator: Monika Jonson, monika.jonson@arkitektur.lth.se
Course coordinator: Nina Falk Aronsen, nina.aronsen@arkitektur.lth.se
Course homepage: https://www.abm.lth.se/english/