Architectural theory : introduction

lbarc1102  2024-2025  Bruxelles Saint-Gilles

Architectural theory : introduction
3.00 credits
30.0 h
Q2
Teacher(s)
Language
French
Content
  1. Introduction - the indefiniteness of architecture
  2. Representations or mediating between real world and realities
  3. Antiquity I: order and continuity
  4. Antiquity II: from self-knowledge to motivated action
  5. The Middle Ages: the spiritualisation of architecture
  6. Renaissance I: the invention of perspective
  7. Renaissance II: the Papacy and Mannerism
  8. The Century of Reason (17th century): from reform to Baroque folly
  9. The Age of Enlightenment (18th century), or between Baroque and Neoclassicism
  10. The eclectic century (19th century) or the architectural carnival
  11. Modernism (20th century) or the mechanisation of architecture
  12. Postmodernism (20th century) or the meaning of architecture
  13. Our century (21st) or the digitalisation of architecture
Teaching methods
Lectures of 2 hours, each week.
Evaluation methods
A written exam including:
  1. multiple-choice questions: general assessment of passive knowledge acquisition
  2. matching questions: assessing the ability to link building plans, references, periods and sites
  3. an open-ended question: assessment of active understanding of knowledge
Teaching materials
  • Tous les supports de cours sont sur Moodle
Faculty or entity


Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)

Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Learning outcomes
Bachelor in Architecture (Bruxelles)