Course

Theories in History - ARCH7305

Faculty: Built Environment

School: Architecture Program

Course Outline: Built Environment

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

None

Excluded: BENV7305

CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

The course is concerned with the writings of architectural theorists from antiquity to the present. Significant authors include Vitruvius, Alberti, Palladio, Perrault, Laugier, Boullee, Hugo and Labrouste, Viollet-le-Duc, Fergusson, Pugin, Ruskin, Semper, Loos, van Doesburg, Le Corbusier, Kahn, Venturi, Frampton and Rykwert. Interpretations of key texts highlight topics that are relevant to modern theory and practice, including: the human analogy; the relationship of structure to ornament; the decorative surface of a building; as well as the meaning of materials, light and space. The course will set out a theoretical foundation for architecture that is capable of responding to contemporary problems.
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