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Modern Architecture: MoMo to PoMo (ABPL30050)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Semester 1
Overview
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This subject will consider the development of modern architecture during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It will include: the origins and development of modernism; changing ideas of housing, urbanism and society; functionalism and expression; materiality and spatial organisation; the changing role of the architect; key ideas of seminal thinkers; reactions to and interpretations of modernism; post-modernism and deconstruction. Particular attention will be paid to global migrations of modernist ideas including Asia/Pacific modernities and the postcolonial condition.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of the subject students should be able to:
- Demonstrate understanding of the sources and historical development of modern architecture;
- Appreciate the global migration of modernist ideas in a postcolonial context;
- Understand the key ideas of the seminal buildings and theories of modern architecture.
Generic skills
- Analysis of physical artifacts in their historical context.
- Understanding of history as a discipline and as a process.
- Understanding of the social, cultural and environmental context of architecture.
- Essay writing to undergraduate standard.
- Use and understanding of design terminology.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students who commenced the Bachelor of Environments prior to 2015 are not required to complete ABPL10004 Global Foundations of Architecture as a prerequisite.
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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ABPL10004 | Global Foundations of Design |
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
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12.5 |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Assessment
Additional details
- Drawn and/or written tutorial exercises completed between weeks 2 and 11 to the total equivalent of 400 words (totalling 20%);
- A 2000-word essay due in week 9 (40%);
- A two-hour end-of-semester examination (40%).
Hurdle requirement: Attendance and participation in 80% of tutorials.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Paul Walker Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Two hours of lectures and one tutorial hour Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Time commitment details
170 Hours
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Further information
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Major Urban Design and Planning Major Architecture Informal specialisation Environments Discipline subjects Major Landscape Architecture Breadth Track Architectural History - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Last updated: 22 March 2024