Available in 2024
Course code

ARBE3200

Units

10 units

Level

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

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  • 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