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: ACE-4-AHDiss 10,000-12,000-word dissertation on an approved topic, and with focus either in interpretation or archival research Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-AHindProj While studying abroad during their third year students work on an architectural history independent project. The project is assessed on the basis of a report of no more than 8,000 words. Students are expected, while abroad, to follow architectural history courses, if available, and to take advantage of galleries, museums and monuments accessible to them. The topic, which need not relate to the country in which the student is studying, will be agreed between the student and the supervisor, who will suggest introductory bibliography and will help the student to define the project. The student and the supervisor then agree a subject for an essay on an aspect of the project. The essay (of no more than 3,000 words) will be sent to the ACE undergraduate office by a set date early in Semester 2. The supervisor will also comment on a short outline of the independent project report to be sent in by the same date. By a set date towards the end of Semester 2, the student will send a fuller outline of the report (indicating a line of argument and the division into chapters) and a bibliography to the ACE undergraduate office. The supervisor will return these with comments. The student will then write a full draft of the report to be handed in to the Ace undergraduate office on the first day of Semester 1 of the student's fourth year. The supervisor will then read and discuss the draft with the student. Two copies of the completed independent project report (of between 6,000 and 8,000 words) must handed in to the ACE undergraduate office no later than the end of week 4 of Semester 1 of the student's fourth year. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-AHAStudy Advanced Study allows a student to develop an aspect of a taught honours course as a 20 credit extension of the original course. The course allows the student to pursue self directed study but the chosen theme is identified in the taught version of the course and the project is provided by the tutor who will provide detailed advice at its commencement. The project will be based on known, very strong local archival or library resources, including the Special Collections of Edinburgh University Library
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: ACE-3-AHIStudy The 20-credit Independent Study enables students to pursue or acquire special interests in Architectural History, Theory of Architecture and Historiography of Architecture. With the agreement of their tutor, who becomes their supervisor for the purposes of this Option, the student makes a self-directed study whose resources with be either a material architectural fabric, secondary or primary literature, or archival material. Its method will be theoretical, archival, bibliographical or archaeological . Other approaches are also possible. The student will carry out a agreed project along one of these paths to produce an analytical essay or report. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-U03485 During the nineteenth century Britain amassed the largest territorial empire the world had ever seen. With this expansion came the export of architecture and urban planning, the visual and spatial consequences of which were profound and unprecedented. This course considers the relationship between architecture and empire during this period, from the American Revolution and the loss of the thirteen colonies, to the partition of India and the demise of the imperial dream. It will examine the formal, spatial, social, and political characteristics of buildings in the context of Britain's ambition to control ever greater swathes of the earth's surface economically and culturally. Examples, both secular and religious, will be drawn from across the British colonial world - from England, Scotland, and Ireland to Canada, the Caribbean, India, South East Asia, Africa, and Australasia. These examples will be discussed in their historical context and analysed for what they reveal about notions (and anxieties) regarding modern British identity, imperialism, and nationhood.
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: ACE-3-AHMonk Western monasticism has been a form of piety, a system of discipline and a principle of organisation of agricultural and economic activity, and of provision of social services from Early Christian times to the present. As a religious, economic, social and political agent, it has focussed thinking and has served as a laboratory for the development of ideas and practices that society at large later assimilated. The monastery, as architectural expression of a society in miniature, is, symbolically, lofty and elaborate and, practically, comprehensive and diverse. Its architectural elements have supplied a large part of the original typology of architecture - for example, for worship, meditation, deliberative assembly, eating, hospitality, treating the sick, storage of all kinds. Paying due attention to the priorities of different monastic orders, the course discusses the philosophical and utilitarian functions of the monastery, and traces their development. The activities that the monastery housed and engaged in are approached through a chronological sequence of studies of a number of Europe's most important monastic foundations.
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: ACE-3-U04762 Arguably Barcelona is one of the most fascinating fin-de-siecle cities in Europe: comparable to Glasgow, Brussels, Paris and Berlin, it was being rapidly transformed at this time, producing the material conditions for a new urban culture and one of the most creative periods in the arts. This course provides an in-depth study of Modernisme architecture in Barcelona, tracing its evolution from its beginnings in the 1880s, marked by the 1888 International Exhibition and the writings by Lluis Domenech i Montaner, to its end just before WWI. Rather than focusing on a few isolated figures, such as Gaudi, the course aims to look at Modernisme as totality. It locates the break with academicism and the development of a new architectural language within the political and intellectual context, and relates it to the other contemporary arts in Spain. It also considers some of the parallels between Modernisme and similar movements in Europe, and the contribution of Modernisme to ?modernity? in architecture. Entry Requirements ? Pre-requisites : AH2A & 2B; or Honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees; or Honours entry to BMus (Music) or by agreement of the Head of Subject Area
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: ACE-3-AHBramant Donato Bramante had contact with the most influential artists and patrons of his age. The course follows the career of Bramante, from Urbino, his birthplace, to the Duchy of Milan and finally to Rome, where he died in 1514. Thereafter, the principal architectural-historical events in Rome are discussed, particularly in relation to notions of Renaissance and High Renaissance. At the same time, changing religious and artistic values are traced up until 1546, the date of Michelangelo's appointment to bring Bramante's greatest Roman project, the church of St. Peter's, to a finish.
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: ACE-3-AHEdinbur This course focuses on the development of Edinburgh from the Union of Parliaments to the proposed reconstruction of the city after the Second World War, with a particular emphasis on the period 1767-1950. The influence of eighteenth century Neo-classicism, the Picturesque Movement and the historical revivals of the nineteenth century on both the layout of the city and the characteristics of its principal buildings are explored. The concern here is not only with the stylistic development of the city's architecture, but also the theoretical and philosophical concerns that lay behind these and, in particular, the effect of both the Enlightenment and the Romantic Movement. By contrast, the effects of public concern and legislation in connection with housing, education and public health, as well as and the history of the development of building regulations are considered where appropriate. In addition to this examination of the broader townscape issues, the course also deals with specific building types, including the major public buildings and lays a special emphasis on housing. The purpose of the course is to encourage an understanding of the issues outlined above and the way in which their interaction has helped to form the city. In addition, the course is also concerned with changing ideas of the city as expressed at various points in Edinburgh's history and in various texts. To this end, it explores a variety of texts and images of the city, including the 1752 Proposals; Robert Adam's ambitious neoclassical proposals for the city; the notion of Edinburgh as "The Athens of the North"; John Ruskin's Edinburgh Lectures of 1853 and the Abercrombie Report of 1949.
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: ACE-3-AHGeorg By the early eighteenth century the search for definitive cultural precedents brought British architects to the European continent where they studied the buildings of early western civilization in Rome, and later at the Greek fountainhead. Influenced by these Classical models architects returned to Britain and adapted concepts of the Antique to their own styles. This course will study the Palladians, James Gibbs, the impact of the Grand Tour, the neo-classicism of both William Chambers and Robert Adam, architectural publications, the Greek Revival, the Picturesque Movement and will culminate with an analysis of the personal style of Soane, whose eclecticism foreshadowed the architectural debates of the nineteenth century.
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: ACE-3-GER During the tumultuous first half of the 20th century, Germany was both the crucible of architectural modernism and the site of the megalomaniac city-rebuilding schemes proposed by the National Socialists. After the widespread destruction wrought by World War 2 the cities in the two German states, East and West, were rebuilt according to the dictates of their masters in Moscow and Washington, respectively, with the former capital divided in two by the Berlin Wall. The reunification of 1989 prompted further massive rebuilding programmes in the old Eastern states and in Berlin, which was presented with the challenge of creating a new capital on the fragmented foundations of the old, divided city. In the span of the twentieth century, no other state or architectural culture can point to such design creativity and to such destruction and rebuilding. This is the subject of the course.
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: ACE-3-AHSchink As the father of Prussian nineteenth-century Neo-Classicism, Karl Friedrich Schinkel established principles of architectural, urban and landscape design that determined the character of Berlin and Postdam in the first half of the nineteenth century. At the same time, his unbuilt projects for sites on the Acropolis and in the Crimea provided a conscious point of contact between Periclean Athens and modern Berlin. The timeless quality of Schinkel's own work and its ability to bridge the centuries must also explain his lasting influence on both nineteenth and twentieth century designers, with such diverse architects as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, James Stirling, Aldo Rossi and Stephen Holl acknowledging a direct debt to the Prussian master. The course will study not only the individual works of Schinkel as stage designer, painter, urban designer and architect, but also the general principles that inform these works and the continued attraction of Schinkel's example for twentieth-century architects. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-AHCorbus The course will provide the basis for a critical engagement with the work of Le Corbusier, one of the leading figures in twentieth-century architectural culture. It will follow his career, examining his writings, art and architecture through a series of significant themes. These will include the modern city, the primitive, space, perception, metaphor and the fragment, the role of tradition, and the status of thematic content in modern architecture. Le Corbusier's work and thought will be compared and contrasted with that of other prominent contemporary figures. Entry Requirements ? Pre-requisites : AH2A & 2B; or Honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees; or Honours entry to BMus (Music) or by agreement of the Head of Subject Area
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: ACE-3-ace Alberti (1404-72) wrote treatises on painting, sculpture and architecture. In intending to be a comprehensible voice on matter for which a familiar critical and theoretical language was not generally current, he set himself a difficult task. By education at Padua and Bologna and as a scholarly employee of the Papal court, he was equipped for it. But no less was he prepared by his close familiarity with the practice of the arts themselves. He was moved to undertake the task by his confidence that moral and social life are sustained by the visual arts. The course considers Alberti as an observer of contemporary practice and as the advocate of a practice to some extent aiming at a revival of classical values, one, at the same time, systematic and naturalistic. In addition, Alberti, though by background and education, entitled to depreciate the mechanical arts, painted, it is reported, sculpted, it is argued, and designed as an architect, it is universally acknowledged. As an educator, Alberti was also an advocate of architecture as an activity worthy of an erudite patron. He was instrumental, in the longer spread of history, in establishing the credentials of the visual arts, perhaps especially architecture, as proper concerns (bringing corresponding rewards in esteem) of the prince. The standing of the artist himself was raised by AlbertiÂs advocacy. AlbertiÂs practice and his advocacy was peripatetic. The spread of Renaissance values beyond Tuscany was in part owing to his travels around the courts of Italy. Following in AlbertiÂs footsteps, the course will trace this process of colonisation or evangelization from Florence of the Rucellai to Rome of the Popes, Ferrara of the Este, Rimini of the Malatesta, Urbino of the Montefeltro and Mantua of the Gonzaga. Entry Requirements ? Pre-requisites : AH2A or AH2B, or Honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees, or Honours entry to BMus (Music) or by agreement with Head of Subject Area
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: ACE-3-AHPallad No architect has been more influential than Andrea Palladio. The nature of his work and the reasons for that influence are the themes of the course. The course falls broadly into two parts. The first concentrates upon architecture in Venice and the Veneto in the 16th century, and particularly the work of Palladio himself. That work was practical, theoretical and archaeological. The second part of the course considers English responses to it, specifically, what made it serviceable to English purposes. The discovery, study and interpretation of the work of Palladio will be studied, as will the English architectural culture and intellectual background which Palladio's example refined, against which it argued and into which it was assimilated and adapted. The study of English Palladianism deals with the period from about 1600 to 1750.
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: ACE-3-AHGeddes The course explores the work of the Scottish urban planner, sociologist and ecologist, Sir Patrick Geddes. His theory of the city, practical urban renewal schemes and planning work are examined, and placed in the context of contemporary European architectural and urban thought. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-AHScotCH This course is concerned with the history of the country house in Scotland in a period which starts with the introduction of the classical country house and continues with its development and the introduction of other, historical styles. It examines the work of all the main architects of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries but does not concentrate solely on personalities, of either architects or patrons, or on purely stylistic matters. Great emphasis is laid on the actual functioning of the buildings and their wider role within the estates. The interest here is partly in purely design terms, that is the role of the house within the designed landscape, but also in the broader issues of improvement and estate management. Of particular interest is the theoretical and aesthetic background within which the houses were built. The focus here is on the introduction of the classical country house in the earlier part of the period covered by the course, and the the influences that shaped the castellated and mediaeval revivialist work that characterises the end of the period covered. 1660-1800 was also an important time for the social, political and economic development of Scotland and we will consider the relationship between these factors and the development of the country house, including issues like the economic basis of the estates; the significance of the continuation of a Court style after 1660; the architectural expression of Jacobitism in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries; and the significance of the Union for the country house in Scotland. To a limited extent, our view of the architecture of this period will also extend to other art forms, including literature and painting. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-U03904 All aspects of Scottish architecture, ecclesiastical, fortified and domestic will be examined as they develop through the Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance periods. The course will concentrate on the strong contrasts between nationalistic and cosmopolitan approaches to architectural design which both characterize Scottish architecture at various times through the medieval and renaissance centuries. Studies will be made particularly of the transition from the pan-European types of fortification, cathedral, monastic and palace complex design of the 12th and 13th centuries, to the unique characteristics and types, such as the tower house, which emerged during and after the wars to retain independence from England. Building traditions that became peculiarly Scottish will be examined, including vaulting types, corbelling and tracery patterns that typify aspects of the architecture of a nation at the geographical fringes of Europe. The various attempts to consciously assert both personal education and national identity in architecture as Renaissance influences began to infiltrate from Europe will then be covered. The material will be organized along basically chronological lines, dealing with each building type within certain time-frames. Possibilities exist for visits by students to many fine local examples of all the building types discussed. Entry Requirements ? Pre-requisites : AH2A & 2B; or Honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees; or Honours entry to BMus (Music) or by agreement of the Head of Subject Area.
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: ACE-3-ACE The course will survey the relationships between building and structural design, materials and construction through the medieval and renaissance periods. The design process of 'constructive geometry'and its irrationality will be reviewed in relation to the possibility of intuitive judgement; then the eventual adoption of more rational 'rules of thumb', particularly following the collapse of Beauvais Cathedral in 1284. Decisions as to what constituted sufficient structure for stability will be considered, as against the requirements of security or fortification. The qualities and limitations of naturally occuring materials will be introduced and the course will also explore the process of construction itself, particularly where it has a bearing on the structural design. No more than a very fundamental ability in mathematics is required for this course.
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: ACE-3-ASSA2 This course surveys the relationship between structural engineering and architecture from the late nineteenth century until the present day. The course deals with the manner in which engineers utilised the new materials, construction processes and design tools that emerged during this period; Specific themes that are covered are the emergence of new structural forms, the conflict between analysis and intuition in the design of structure, the increasing industrialisation of the construction industry and the engineer as architect and builder.
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: ACE-3-ASSA1 This course surveys the relationship between structural engineering and architecture from the late nineteenth century until the present day. In particular, it deals with the effect which structural technology has had on the visual aspects of architecture and is concentrates on the evolution of the design-team method of working in the context of the development of the British High Tech movement and its successors. Specific themes which are covered are the types of relationships which have existed between architects and engineers, the different philosophical approaches which are possible to the relationship between structural design and architectural design, the engineer as designer and constructor and the public perception of engineering. Entry Requirements ? Pre-requisites : Architectural History 1 or 1A and 1B or 1C or Honours entry to History of Art or its combined degrees, or Honours entry to BMus (Music) or by agreement of the Head of Subject Area
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: ACE-3-AHTheory As a discipline, history is a matter of selecting and shaping historical data. Theory is a meditation upon the discipline and its data. The course is a study of historians, theorists and their texts. After an introduction considering the Period as the object of historical definition and as the tool of the historian, the course introduces theorists and theories of architecture from Vitruvius to Deconstruction. They are arranged chronologically so that the force of historical determinism and purposiveness of historical reflection may be gauged. The course concludes with a discussion of the proposition that cultural time moves in cycles.
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: ACE-4-AHDiss 10,000-12,000-word dissertation on an approved topic, and with focus either in interpretation or archival research Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-AHindProj While studying abroad during their third year students work on an architectural history independent project. The project is assessed on the basis of a report of no more than 8,000 words. Students are expected, while abroad, to follow architectural history courses, if available, and to take advantage of galleries, museums and monuments accessible to them. The topic, which need not relate to the country in which the student is studying, will be agreed between the student and the supervisor, who will suggest introductory bibliography and will help the student to define the project. The student and the supervisor then agree a subject for an essay on an aspect of the project. The essay (of no more than 3,000 words) will be sent to the ACE undergraduate office by a set date early in Semester 2. The supervisor will also comment on a short outline of the independent project report to be sent in by the same date. By a set date towards the end of Semester 2, the student will send a fuller outline of the report (indicating a line of argument and the division into chapters) and a bibliography to the ACE undergraduate office. The supervisor will return these with comments. The student will then write a full draft of the report to be handed in to the Ace undergraduate office on the first day of Semester 1 of the student's fourth year. The supervisor will then read and discuss the draft with the student. Two copies of the completed independent project report (of between 6,000 and 8,000 words) must handed in to the ACE undergraduate office no later than the end of week 4 of Semester 1 of the student's fourth year. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-AHAStudy Advanced Study allows a student to develop an aspect of a taught honours course as a 20 credit extension of the original course. The course allows the student to pursue self directed study but the chosen theme is identified in the taught version of the course and the project is provided by the tutor who will provide detailed advice at its commencement. The project will be based on known, very strong local archival or library resources, including the Special Collections of Edinburgh University Library
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