ARBE3200
10 units
3000 level
Course handbook
Description
Examines the built environment through the Twentieth and Twenty-First Century period. The architectural theory and philosophy and their relationship to architectural practice and history within major themes will be examined.
Availability2024 Course Timetables
Callaghan
- Semester 1 - 2024
Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the course students will be able to:
1. Identify at least ten themes in architectural theory
2. Describe the relationship between each theme and the built environment
3. Articulate a theoretical agenda for design
Content
- Theory and Practice
- Phenomenology, Critical Regionalism, Tectonics
- Semiotics: Structuralism and postmodernism
- Post-structuralism
- Feminism, Gender, the Body and Inhabitation
- Neomaterialism
- Posthumanism
- Urbanism
- Cyberspace, Cyber-bodies and Post-digital Production
- The Sublime
- Power
Requisite
This course is only available to students enrolled in the Bachelor of Design (Architecture) or Bachelor of Industrial Design programs.
Assumed knowledge
ARBE2203
Assessment items
Written Assignment: Critical Review - Precis of (3) lecture themes and associated readings
Written Assignment: Theory Essay, Video and Presentation
Contact hours
Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan
Lectorial-1
- Face to Face On Campus 3 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
- Distance learning students will receive equivalent instruction through online or other distance education strategies
Course outline
- ARBE3200 - Semester 1, 2024 (Callaghan) (PDF, 234.4 KB)
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.