Learning Outcomes:
We will emerge from this module with our minds full of ideas around architecture and the senses, around architecture as the frame for collective behaviour, and around architecture’s role in urban history. We will dive into the art and practice of observing buildings – that is, paying attention to things – and writing, quite basically, in a descriptive way.
1) Communication Skills
Ability to write effectively about architecture
2) Investigative Skills
Ability to gather, assess, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information in order to make conclusions about specific projects.
3) Cultural Diversity and Social Equity
Understanding of the diverse needs, values, behavioural norms, physical abilities, and social and spatial patterns that characterize different cultures and individuals and the responsibility of the architect to ensure equity of access to sites, buildings, and structures.
Indicative Module Content:
New European Bauhaus value system is at the root of this module:
SUSTAINABILITY
INCLUSIVITY
BEAUTY
The module is about ways of experiencing and writing about architecture.
It is an architectural humanities module, engaged in architectural culture.
The physical area of focus is Dublin city.
The guiding architectural typology - or building type - is THE HOME.