8 ECTS credits
210 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 4014952FNR for all students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.
Course subject: Analysis of architecture and urban structures
The aim of this course is to present the main developments of 19th and 20th century European cities and to explore the form and the function of selected types of architecture. Copenhagen is a central reference, but throughout the course these developments will be related to international developments as well. The course addresses themes such as: Examples of urban planning. Urban history and the city square as the organizing element of the city. Responses to the modern decentering of the urban structure. Modern institutions in the city: parliaments, universities, schools. Infrastructure: The harbour and the bridges, the train station, the airport and the metro. Bourgeois culture: museums, theatres, concert houses. Class cultures: the bourgeois family, the working class family, interior decoration. Mass culture: the amusement park, the zoological garden, the panorama, the café, the circus, the cinema. Cultural planning in the experience society.
The students are expected to read about 60 pages per week as well as to attend the weekly lectures and seminars. Each student must give two oral presentations (10 minutes each) during the seminar hours. Before the end of the course the presentations must be uploaded on the e-classroom.
Methods:
1: source criticism
2: philosophical reflection on different approaches: from the ‘geometrical’ approach by Descartes to the interplay between phenomenological, semiotical and sociological approaches in modern research on architecture
3: the application of analytical approaches
The module aims to provide students with competences in analysing works of art and/or artistic and/or cultural and historical currents and questions in the post-1850 period, focusing on historical (political, economic, cultural, intellectual) conditions and developments that transcend art forms, periods and language areas.
A course will be offered on an urban-history topic (covering problem, motive, theme, period, genre, etc.). The teaching will include supervision for the written examination, which will take the form of the presentation and discussion of a problem formulation and the assignment text.
For the examination, students are able to:
• independently identify, formulate and analyse an issue related to cultural history post-1850
• critically reflect on a subject's embedding in a historical context, which may encompass political, social, cultural, intellectual and conditions specific to the art form
• reflect on principles and problems in the historical analysis of artistic and cultural (perhaps also mass-cultural) idioms
• reflect on their methodological approach to the material, including secondary texts, in a critical manner
• independently communicate a major study of an academic problem in a clear linguistic form
The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.
Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:
Active class participation.
Oral presentations
Written report
This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Urban Studies: 4CITIES Classical track