Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
Liverpool School of Art & Design
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
Module Offerings
5111ASA-SEP-MTP
Aims
To enable students to understand the principal movements in 20th and 21st century architecture within their various cultural and historical contexts.
To research, analyse, and communicate the form and context of significant twentieth century, and more recent, architectural and design movements, theories and buildings, to know and understand the significance their architects and designers to the development of architectural history and theory.
To research, develop and realise an illustrated and fully referenced academic essay.
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:First semester starts with a series of one hour lectures on the development of twentieth and twenty first century architecture and interior architecture practices. Each session deals with a specific theme, where theoretical concepts are presented and discussed in the context of their relevant cultural, social and technological context. A selection of seminal architects and designers and their works are used to illustrate the lectures. The scope will be mainly European with references to American and other regions of the world in order to represent the changing nature of the architectural profession in the world over the period covered by the module.
There will be lectures, seminars and tutorials offered that aim to explain issues arising from the lectures and support the research, illustration, writing and appropriate academic conventions appropriate for essay at this level of study.
Additional Information:The aim of the module is to explore Modernism, postmodernism and the emerging metamodernism, its precedents and worldwide antecedents and to help students to develop their analytic voice through a series of lectures, seminars and assignments in preparation for the more detailed and focused tasks of the subsequent final year of study. In addition, you will be encouraged to develop your research, writing and editing skills to have a wider scope of context and a deeper appreciation of how critical theory can help in dissecting the work of practitioners and their creative processes.
Assessments
Essay