Duration
24h Th
Number of credits
| Master in architecture (120 ECTS) | 2 crédits |
Lecturer
Coordinator
Language(s) of instruction
French language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The seminar aims at providing the students with the essential methological tools in the field or history of architecture.
The emphasis is put on identification, localisation and critical analysis of the sources, with the aim of writing a paper during the second part of the course (second semester).
Documentary resources are considered in the broad sense of the term, ranging from the archive to the publications and including audiovisual material and interviews.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
At the end of the course, the student is accustomed with the main documentary resources types in the field of history of architecture and the ways to use them.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Basic knowledge of architectural history.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Methodological seminars, visits of archive centres/libraries and lectures.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
face-to-face
Recommended or required readings
Sabine Frommel (dir.), « Méthodes en histoire de l'architecture », Les Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine, n°9-10 (Paris : Monum, janvier 2002).
Andrew Leach, What is Architectural History? (Cambridge : Polity, 2010).
Assessment methods and criteria
Report and/or paper and/or exam
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
Contacts
Pierre Frankignoulle
Claudine Houbart
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Courses in the first semester, no adaptation needed