Course syllabus

Architecture, Basic Course D2
Arkitektur, baskurs D (åk 2)

AAHF05, 18.0 credits, G2 (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: A2
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.

This basic course (D) emphasizes the urban building’s relationships to the architectural conditions of the town in which it is located.

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 proceeds in lectures, projects, exercises, seminars, study trips, workshops and written work. The main emphasis is on teaching students to consider and present what they have learned in the form of drawings, models, sketches, images, texts and other relevant media. At the end of each term each student’s work is assembled in a portfolio that is used in a pedagogic discussion with him or her.

The projects and exercises of the course focus on giving form to public buildings and their immediate surroundings. Each student shall investigate a building’s functional, cultural and aesthetical qualities, the qualities of how it is designed, and how it relates to its location and context.

The course can include consideration of access to public buildings by disabled persons; theories of colour; theory; installation technology; exercises in digital presentation; relationships between buildings and their surrounding landscapes; and resolutions of questions about material that can affect architects and their work; as a consequence, the contents of the course can vary as between the three studios.

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

Admission requirements:

The number of participants is limited to: No
Kursen överlappar följande kurser: AAH145 AAHA30

Reading list

Contact

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