Available in 2024
Course code

ARBE2203

Units

10 units

Level

2000 level

Course handbook

Description

This course explores the development of modern architecture through key movements of the twentieth century alongside the translation of international ideas into the Australian context. Movements will be examined in relation to theories and cultural, social and stylistic values, alongside the construction technologies, and political and economic conditions that underpinned those developments.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 2 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. identify twentieth-century architecture in terms of periods, traits, principles, theories and philosophies

2. develop relevant frameworks for theorising practice

3. develop capacity for critical and reflexive thinking

4. develop tertiary level communication skills across written and/or seminar (verbal) formats


Content

Key architectural movements including modernism, brutalism, metabolism, post-modernism, regionalism, high-tech and deconstructivism will be explored via a series of architects who were the key proponents of those movements.


Requisite

This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Design (Architecture) program.


Assumed knowledge

ARBE1104 History and Theory in the Built Environment 1


Assessment items

Participation: Required Readings Online Logbook

Literature Review: Annotated Bibliography

Presentation: Seminar


Contact hours

Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan

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  • Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s)

Course outline

Course outline not yet available.