ARCT30030 History & Theory of the Designed Environment IV - Architecture, Urban and Landscape

Academic Year 2020/2021

This is an advanced course that sets out to investigate the complexity of the designed environment in order to build a common knowledge base for future architects, designers, landscape architects, planners and others involved in the procurement and management of the designed physical environment. Although the course assumes an outline knowledge of the history of architecture, cities and landscapes, additional readings would allow others to benefit from the course.

The course investigates the forces and ideas that have shaped, material culture, architecture, the city, and the landscape and gardens from antiquity to the present. Particular emphasis is placed on the interaction and inter-dependencies of the range of different scales, from the architectural space of the interior through to the wider landscape.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module students should be able to:
*Explain and explore the interrelated architectural and landscape history of the country and the city, the villa and the town, the landed estate, the garden and the plantation as they developed in Europe and the New World from 1600 to the present day.
*Use key case studies to discuss and illustrate this history.
*Write a fully-referenced academic essay of 2000 words with illustrations drawn from the course reading list and lectures (2500 words if no illustrations are used).
* Draw critical comparisons with current and past practice in designing the built and landscape environment.

Indicative Module Content:

1. The Georgian Square and the Georgian House 1714-1837
2. The Georgian City and the Georgian Suburb 1714-1837
3. The Villa; The Form and Ideology of Country Houses
4. The Landscape of Plantation in the US
5. Villa Landscape in Ireland
6. The Town and the Village in Ireland
7. The Cabin and the Cottage in Irish/US Historiography
8. Nineteenth-century Suburbia
9. The Institutional Landscapes of Nineteenth-century Ireland
10. Movement, Image and the Modern city
11.20C modernism in Ireland
12. The Modernist Villa and Landscape

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Tutorial

6
Autonomous Student Learning

90
Total

120
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This is a lecture based module that aims to introduce students to the foremost architectural and landscape historians working in the field today. The key teaching approach is lecture-based and drawn from a prescribed reading list that also aims to incorporate active research into taught content. Approximately 30% of the lectures translate current APEP research and prizewinning publications directly into taught content.
The essay component asks the student to reflect on some selected core readings from a defined historical period and to develop an argument relating to the question posed. Both the essay and the final exam assess the student's absorption of the historical methods, thematic concerns and wider cultural and aesthetic histories of the subjects covered in the lecture series. Creative thinking and a subtle/nuanced understanding of history are developed through close engagement with the reading list and simultaneous lecture attendance. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Essay: 2000 word illustrated and fully-referenced essay on a villa landscape selected by the student. Week 5 n/a Graded No

30
Essay: A 2,500 illustrated and fully-referenced essay responding to a question selected from a list of questions. These will be drawn from the module's topics and will be provided in week 7. Week 12 n/a Graded Yes

70

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback on the essay (30%) component of the module will initially be provided as online automated feedback. Class feedback will be provided in week 10. Feedback will be provided individually to students post-assessment if it is sought.

Name Role
Professor Hugh Campbell Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Ellen Rowley Lecturer / Co-Lecturer