1. Demonstrate knowledge and critical understanding of the well-established concepts and principles of the histories and theories of architecture and their development, including the acquisition of a coherent and detailed knowledge their technical, cultural and professional contexts.
Knowledge & Understanding

2. Understand the limits of an evolving subject knowledge, and how this influences analysis and interpretation ofthe relevance and influence of the fine arts on the theories and realisation of architecture, and its application in the conceptualisation and realisation of projects in studio.
Learning

3. Demonstrate a range of visual, written and verbal techniques to conceptualise, represent and communicate your ideas and completed work to specialist and non-specialist audiences, and deploy key techniques of the discipline effectively.
Communication

4. Demonstrate qualities and transferable skills necessary to work with other people, accepting responsibility and recognising individual strengths and weaknesses including the development of existing skills, and the acquisition of new competencies that will require the exercise of personal responsibility, delegation and decision making and will enable students to assume significant responsibility within organisations.
Reflection

Assessment 1 will ask students to identify, research and evaluate, through text, models,and drawings a chosen building forming a precedent study for their work in Design Resolution -Studio 4.

This assessment is worth 40% of the module markand will assess the following Learning Outcomes:LO3 –Communication.LO4 –Reflection.

Assessment 2 will require students to research and prepare an illustrated essay.

This assessment is worth 60% of the module markand will assess the following Learning Outcomes:LO1 –Knowledge & Understanding.LO2 –Learning. LO3 –Communication.

All learning outcomes have to be met in order to pass the module.

In this module you will continue to engage withthe key movements, styles and theories in architecture, from antiquity to the late twentieth century, through the discussion and consideration of the seminal buildings relating to the specific typologies being considered in Design Studios 3 & 4. Through, discussion, debates, visits, seminars, lectures and your own research, you will compare and contrast their variety; the materials of their production; the historical and cultural contexts of their realisation and the theories and debates arising from their subsequent evaluation. Your engagement in this module will expand your understanding of the evolution of architecture through time and the way in which it is referenced in popular culture and the artsandin your own work to inform your emerging architectural position.

Outputs for this module will include, an independently researched precedent study relating to your work in studio and an independently researched essay.

This module will be supported by input in the following Level 5 Modules
Collaborative Project -Studio 3

Scheduled Teaching & Learning Activitieson this module will include presentations by module staff and outside specialists, specialist lectures, workshops and building visits.

In addition, Guided Independent Study will include student lead presentations and feedback sessions.

Further support materials and information will be made available onBlackboard. Each session in studio will commence with an introduction by the module tutor.

Ching, Francis D.K, Jarzombek, Mark M, Vikramaditya, Prakash (2017) A Global History of Architecture (3rd edn.) Hoboken NJ., John Wiley & Sons

Davies, Colin (2018) A New History of Modern ArchitectureLondon, Laurence King

Rattenbury, Kester & Hardingham, Samantha (eds.) (2007) Cedric Price: Potteries Thinkbelt (SuperCrit) London, Routledge

Unwin, Simon, (2014)., 25 Buildings Every Architects Should Understand [2ndEdition] London, Routledge

Volgger, Peter & Graf, Stefan (eds.) (2017) Architecture in Asmara: Colonial Origins and Postcolonial ExperiencesBerlin, DOM Publishers

Access to architecture studio, wood metal and plastics workshops and the SmartZone with drawing and model making equipment – details will be identified at the beginning of the module. Access to computerswith, image editing and Microsoft 365 software. Access to Blackboard VLE, Microsoft Teams and physical and remote access to Staffordshire University library resources including LinkedIn Learning.