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: ACE-2-AD2 The course aims to develop skills of architectural inquiry. Progressing from Year 1, students are asked to design more complex buildings concentrating, in particular, on themes of public and private, the site and situation. The class takes a study trip to a selected European city each year, and this forms the backdrop to much of the studio during the year. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-1-ADT&E1A Technology & Environment 1A introduces the student to the theory and principles of building construction, materials, building services, fire safety engineering, room acoustics and architectural computing. ** PLEASE NOTE: As from the end of 2008/09, this course will not be available to students. Only students who have been invited by the Architectural Board of Examiners to retake this course in 2009/10 on an exam only basis may sign up. Please contact Leigh-anne on L.A.Pieterse@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 2306 if you have any queries**
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: ACE-1-ADT&E1B This course seeks to provide an introduction, from an essentially theoretical perspective, to those social, cultural, technical and environmental contexts for the design of buildings and the development of human settlements. It provides the foundation for an integrated understanding of the principles and practice of architecture. Technology & Environment 1B specifically provides an introduction to the design of Architectural Structures and Environmental Systems. ** PLEASE NOTE: As from the end of 2008/09, this course will not be available to students. Only students who have been invited by the Architectural Board of Examiners to retake this course in 2009/10 on an exam only basis may sign up. Please contact Leigh-anne on L.A.Pieterse@ed.ac.uk or 0131 650 2306 if you have any queries**
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: ACE-2-ADT&E2 Technology & Environment 2 builds on the first year courses Technology & Environment 1A & 1B. The course develops an ability to assess and analyse buildings in terms of their construction and performance and by doing so obtain an understanding of the integration of the various social, technical and environmental requirements. Students will study the relationships between structure, construction and materials in the context of building design; will pursue the application of sustainable building practices and will learn methods of qualitative and quantitative assessment of environmental performance, including daylighting and acoustics. The interdependence of these components is set within the broader context of a comprehensive and coherent discussion of architectural design theory
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: ACE-4-ADPort1 This course requires students to curate the academic work produced during their MA (Hons)degree and present it in the form of an integrated academic portfolio as defined by the Architects' Registration Board. The work to curate and present the portfolio is independant of the work from the courses themselves. This portfolio is defined as: 'a comprehensive chronological record of a student's design project work together with all course work, including reports, dissertations, sketch books and any other evidence of work, (with project briefs and examination papers), that have been assessed as part of the course leading to an award of Part 1'. This course emphasizes the design and conceptualization skills required for the integration and presentation of diverse kinds of knowledge and media (drawings, installations, printed books/reports, models, photographs, films, digital material, etc). Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-4-ADDiss The Dissertation provides the student with an opportunity to investigate an architectural topic negotiated with staff. The student will undertake sustained and in depth research and present a coherently argued, fully referenced piece of academic writing. In the first semester preparation and research is undertaken, which provides the student with an opportunity to plan and organise the study materials and research methods required in the writing of the Dissertation. This culminates in the submission of a synopsis and bibliography. In the second semester, the dissertation is developed and written. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-ADOption1 This course is focussed on developing students' familiarity with different approaches to architectural design. It is a studio-based course in which students are asked to develop specific approaches to specific design problems. The set design problems change from year to year but will normally allow for an experimental approach to the process of inquiry in architectural design. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-4-ADOption2 This course is focussed on extending the student's capacity to operate with different approaches to architectural design. It is a studio-based course in which students are asked to develop specific approaches to design problems in an integrated and manner. The set design problems will vary from year to year, typically resulting in the design and presentation of a building design of reasonable complexity. The project will be intergrative, bringing together themes and issues being explored in all courses. Entry Requirements ? Pre-requisites : Honours entry to MA (hons) Architectural Design and satisfactory progression from year 3.
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: ACE-4-ADPlaceR While the student is undertaking a period of employment a topic is identified in discussion with University staff and a draft report submitted. The Placement Report is a focussed study of a particular aspect of architectural practice, or related activity carried out during the placement then submitted on return. This course is seen as complimentary to Architectural Design Placement (working learning). Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-ADTheory From a critical perspective the course examines the place of architectural design theory within this age of rapid technological change. The course picks up on critical discourses that seek to challenge and unsettle various theorectical and technological certainties, critically examining issues of power, the philosophy of technology, the politics of domination, the production of space, history as disjunction, gender issues, discourses of the unconscious, cyberspace, theories of interpretation, and deconstruction - all of which implicate architectural design. Entry Requirements ? Costs : Processes and materials involved in the presentation of work: printing and reprographic charges, photographic costs, drawing and modelling materials; digital storage etc.
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: ACE-3-ADTheory From a critical perspective the course examines the place of architectural design theory within this age of rapid technological change. The course picks up on critical discourses that seek to challenge and unsettle various theorectical and technological certainties, critically examining issues of power, the philosophy of technology, the politics of domination, the production of space, history as disjunction, gender issues, discourses of the unconscious, cyberspace, theories of interpretation, and deconstruction - all of which implicate architectural design. Entry Requirements ? This course is only available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-ADPlaceWL The Architectural Design Placement (working learning) is an honours level course which gives an opportunity for workplace learning. An introductory short course is undertaken in Semester 1. The Placement period is a continuous period of recognised employment (or related activity) during which a student undertakes a programme of work experience in an architect's office or similar place of work. Understanding of aspects of architectural practice is tested through on-line submissions. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-3-ADT&E3 The course is concerned with contemporary building technology and the construction and design of steel and concrete framed structures. The manner in which buildings are constructed is continually changing, responding to cultural, social, and technological conditions. During the next forty years (the probable length of your career) the means available to construct buildings will have changed radically. Traditional construction methods and techniques are being replaced by increased industrialistion and prefabrication. New disciplines and roles are evolving for the design teams. Each new project raises new issues for the design team and their builders. Change is an inherent characteristic of the construction industry. Designers need to approach the use of technology with this in mind, in an informed rather than an empirical manner. It is not possible to provide a truly comprehensive review of the technology used in contemporary buildings, which by definition is constantly changing. Instead, key issues concerning contemporary technology are raised by focusing on a series of relevant topics. Case studies will be used throughout. The topics include: Concrete and steel framed buildings; The building envelope; Manufacturing processes; Industrialised construction. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-P-ACE This course covers the both classic theoretical literature on the city in architecture, sociology, geography and cultural studies, and more recent material on non-normative urban forms such as the edge cities, ex-urbs, megacities, barrios, and desa-kotas. The course tracks the shifting character of urban theory in its attempt to account for and explain the emergence of these 'other' urbanisms in the context of globalization. The course deals with explicitly cross-cultural urban and post-urban exemplars, with specific focus on cities in South America, Eastern Europe, South and Southeast Asia, and the UK. It will be informed by recent work on postcolonialism, globalization and cybernetics, as well as the various forms of visual knowledge by which emergent urban conditions are known, made, traversed, imagined and inhabited. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-P-ACE This is dissertation-type course involving work in various digital and analogue media that will be a product of individual or group work. The project will be supervised as a dissertation would be. It will focus on a topic to be developed in discussion with the course organiser. But students are encouraged to develop topics that relate to their own motivations in urban research. Topics may be developed over the course of semester 2, with the final submission date being in September. The central academic concerns of this course are the integration and development of specified theoretical themes, empirical material and methodologies appropriate to the analysis of contemporary urban conditions. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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: ACE-P-P02299 A studio-based course oriented around the production of a project addressing a particular urban problem or situation, to be identified each time the course runs. The course provides a thorough introduction to project-based research in a studio context. The 11 formal teaching sessions comprise workshops in which a range of research methodologies and practices are examined and explored, and tested for their usefulness. The teaching here is explicitly interdisciplinary, with skills from architecture, the social sciences, and the humanities all playing a role. Specific practical skills examined include: photography, drawing, modelling (both virtual and in 3D), data collection, report writing. The sessions also initiate and develop group discussion about the project work; each work the discussion provides a means of monitoring progress and developing ideas, and refining skills.
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: ACE-P-P02300 A studio-based course oriented around the production of a project. The project is directly connected to fieldwork, carried out at the beginning of the semester. The location of the fieldwork and other details will be defined each time the course runs. The course provides a thorough introduction to project-based research in a studio context. The 11 formal teaching sessions comprise workshops in which a range of research methodologies and practices are examined and explored, and tested for their usefulness. The teaching here is explicitly interdisciplinary, with skills from architecture, the social sciences, and the humanities all playing a role. Specific practical skills examined include: photography, drawing, modelling (both virtual and 3D), data collection, report writing. The sessions also initiate and develop group discussion about the project work; each work the discussion provides a means of monitoring progress and developing ideas, and refining skills.
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: ACE-1-AH1 This course surveys the history of British, European and American architecture, from Greek antiquity to the present day. Semester 1 starts with Greek and Roman architecture, the architecture of the Middle Ages and the first great re-evaluation of Antiquity in the Italian Renaissance. It goes on to survey the Renaissance in Britain and northern Europe and the subsequent influence of the Italian Baroque in these areas. Later, the dialogue between developments and ideas in these countries and their respective responses to Antiquity form the focal point of Semester 1, with an examination of the theoretical, cultural and stylistic aspects of the architecture of the Enlightenment. Semester 2 opens with a survey of the stylistic revivals that dominated architecture in the early nineteenth century and focuses in particular on the 'Battle of the Styles' in Britain. It also introduces the apparently contradictory theme of modernity in architecture and discusses the nineteenth century development of new and more sophisticated typologies along with the new materials and technologies that made this possible. The revivalist and the modern are also discussed in terms of the conflict between industrial and anti-industrial that saw the architectural technology of the Crystal Palace juxtaposed with the emergence of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The course traces the complex ideas that lie behind the emergence of Modernism in the early decades of the 20th century. It concludes with lectures on the revision of Modernism in the 1950's and 60's and the recent emergence of a Post-modern consciousness. Throughout the course the technologies of building and the emergence of the architectural profession are recurring themes. Excursions into the related fields of landscape architecture and urban design necessarily appear from time to time. Entry Requirements ? This course is not accepting further student enrolments.
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: ACE-1-AH1A This course surveys the history of British and European architecture, concentrating on the period from Greek antiquity to the neoclassical period of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The early lectures focus on Greek and Roman architecture, the architecture of eastern and western christendom in the Middle Ages as well as the secular architecture of that period. This section finishes with the first great re-evaluation of Antiquity in the the Italian Renaissance. The later lectures survey the Renaissance in Britain and northern Europe and the subsequent influence of the Italian Baroque in these areas. Later, the dialogue between developments and ideas in these countries and their respective responses to Antiquity forms the culmination of the course, which considers the theoretical, cultural and stylistic aspects of the architecture of the Enlightenment. The technologies of building and the emergence of the architectural profession are themes which recur during the lecture course. Excursions into the related fields of landscape architecture and urban design necessarily appear from time to time. Entry Requirements none
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: ACE-1-AH1B This course surveys the history of British, European and American architecture, concentrating on the period from c1800 to the present day. It opens with a survey of the stylistic revivals that dominated architecture in the early nineteenth century and focuses in particular on the 'Battle of the Styles' in Britain. It also introduces the apparently contradictory theme of modernity in architecture and discusses the nineteenth century development of new and more sophisticated typologies along with the new materials and technologies that made this possible. The revivalist and the modern are also discussed in terms of the conflict between industrial and anti-industrial that saw the architectural technology of the Crystal Palace juxtaposed with the emergence of the Arts and Crafts Movement. The course traces the complex ideas that lie behind the emergence of Modernism in the early decades of the 20th century. It concludes with lectures on the revision of Modernism in the 1950's and 60's and the recent emergence of a Post-modern consciousness. The technologies of building and the emergence of the architectural profession are themes which recur during the lecture course. Excursions into the related fields of landscape architecture and urban design necessarily appear from time to time. Entry Requirements none
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: ACE-2-AH2A The theme of the course is building in the city. The course looks at a number of Italian Renaissance cities, between 1350 and 1650, paying particular attention to Florence and Rome. The study of Paris that follows traces the developments of the architectural forms of Absolutism and of bourgeois domesticity between 1600 and 1800. The theoretical and historical context of these architectural events is discussed. The course selects some of the major social and cultural transitions over four centuries and analyses the urban forms that went with them. Chronological overlap provides linkage and continuity between the sections and cities under discussion
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: ACE-2-AH2B The theme of the course is Building in the City. It considers architecture in urban contexts, between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. The course is not a history of town planning. It selects some of the major social and cultural transitions over the past two hundred years and analyses the urban forms that went with them. Industrialisation and its conflicts, empire and social provision are the principal themes of the earlier part of the course. Glasgow serves as the case study. The second half of the course considers the modern City as a global phenomenon where multiplying architectural typologies addressing social needs and celebrating the post-industrial economy are found. The theoretical and historical context of architectural events in the City are treated throughout the course.
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: ACE-3-ACEPLace The work placement is designed to give students experience of applying and developing their knowledge and skills on real projects for host organisations involved in the visual arts or built heritage in or near Edinburgh. The actual work may vary considerably from placement to placement and may range from intensive, workplace-based activity over semester one, followed by report-writing in semester 2, to research-based work paced over the academic year to suit both the host and the student The specifics of any placement are based on a 'learning agreement' agreed by the student, the supervisor and the host organisation. This outlines the placement activity, it explains what is expected of all three parties and it defines an academically-related project that will form the core of the student's report. The placement activity is supplemented by support from academic staff in a combination of class meetings and/or individual supervision as appropriate to the particular placement. An initial meeting explains the practical arrangements for the placement and the assessed work. It also includes a contribution from the University Careers Service. A second meeting is held to review progress and discuss problems and experiences. A final meeting provides guidance on the production of the report. The assessed output is the work placement report. It consists of three elements: a discussion of the context of the work (10%); a self-appraisal, assessing what the student has learned on the placement (15%); and a report on the academically-related project (75%), totalling 8,000-10,000 words in length. In more research-orientated placements, this section will be the research report supplied to the host organisation. Progress will be monitored via the second meeting and also by a series of deadlines for interim reports. The final report will be submitted by an agreed date in semester 2. Two copies of the report must be handed in. Entry Requirements ? This course is not available to visiting students.
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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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