Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Instruct an architectural issue
• Build an architectural culture based on theoretical and critical knowledge and personal reading
• Coordinate the various disciplines related to architecture and urban planning transversely
• Contextualise their approach to architecture
• Develop a spatial response
• Master the means of oral, written and graphic expression
• Develop a project methodology integrating the various constraints related to the architectural discipline
• Develop a creative approach from a set of constraints
• Implement an identified spatial response
• Adopt an applied scientific approach
• Adapt their structural, technical and formal choices according to the principles and values of project.
• Interact with all actors
• Integrate the different expectations of stakeholders related to architecture and urban planning
• Make choices
• Demonstrate ethical values

Learning Outcomes of UE

The course gives the student an architectural culture through the case study of various programs, structures, techniques and forms. He develops his faculty of judging as much constructive, artistic and cultural genius by the study of the typological invention (from the convenience of use to the spatial design), the technical innovation (from the tectonic stability to the architectural order) and creativity in composition and architectural theory (from module and rhythm to plastic beauty). With a historical and contextual perspective on significant achievements, the student deepens his critical reflection on the design process and its implementation as well as on the codification of architectural theory and the cultural message. By setting the situation-problem of Roman, Byzantine and Roman-Gothic architecture, the course deepens the particular questions such as the place, the constructive mode, the morphology, the structure, the luminosity, the spatiality, the decoration or the ornament. A field study of an architectural vestige aims to awaken the responsibility of the future architect facing this medieval heritage.

Content of UE

Late Roman: in laTétrarchie and late Empire (new concrete architecture, urban planning)

Byzantine: early Christian (Basilica martyrium), medium-late Byzantine (excluding Empire).

Novel préromane (two-headed), the first (international code), classic (wall design, span) late (more complex device), religious environment, technical vaulting, civil, military and castle architecture.

Gothic: Opus francigenum (doctrine) and Belgium (Flanders schools-Maritimes, Meuse, scaldienne "Brabant"), civil architecture, medieval and Beguine.

Prior Experience

course "History and theories of architecture and of town planning I"

Type of Assessment for UE in Q1

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral examination
• Written examination

Q1 UE Assessment Comments

Examination writes according to the visual documents (QCM with reasoned justification, incomplete text and structured and explicative presentation of a major building, analysis compared of two buildings).
Study on the ground relating to a local medieval architectural relic from the tools of analysis of lesson.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q3

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral examination
• Written examination

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

Examination writes according to the visual documents (QCM with reasoned justification, incomplete text and structured and explicative presentation of a major building, analysis compared of two buildings).
Study on the ground relating to a local medieval architectural relic from the tools of analysis of lesson.  

Type of Resit Assessment for UE in Q1 (BAB1)

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral examination
• Written examination

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

Study relating to a local medieval architectural relic from the tools of analysis of lesson.