Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Instruct an architectural issue
• Study the different components of a theme to articulate its findings in a comprehensive summary
• 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
• Reconcile the creative and functional dimensions in the project
• Adapt their structural, technical and formal choices according to the principles and values of project.
• Interact with all actors
• Master the different means of expression available to the architect to communicate to informed publics, or not
• Make choices
• Demonstrate reflexivity, openness and initiative

Learning Outcomes of UE

The history of architecture play a leading specific role to familiriser him studying " future architect " in the practices of past. The material history of architecture and of its constructive culture aims at forming at the student's historical detachment and architectural culture. At the end of the activities of trainings, the student must be able: 1/to Admit an architectural or urbanistic work and to re-locate it for its architectural and historical period. 2/to Assess impact on a work of its geographical location and of its membership in architectural period and regional school. 3/to Explain social, cultural and religious influence on appearance and evolution of programmes and of typologies in architecture and town planning. 4/to Describe and to compare, according to applied terminology and according to the graphic support, the architectural composition of a work (approach and monumental prescription, functional device and usage of areas, space division and wall pronunciation, portrays voutement). 5/to Justify progress in architectural forms of architectural period from study of materials, from constructive mode and from technical progress (architectural structure, order of span, technical of voutement and system of lighting). 6/to Determine space signification or message of a programme / conception or an architectural a lumineuse/élément, according to the mode of thought of architectural period. A study on the ground of an architectural relic aims at awakening the responsibility of the future architect facing this middel-age 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
• Practical test
• Quoted exercices

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
• Practical Test
• Quoted exercices

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
• Practical test
• Quoted exercices

Q1 UE Resit Assessment Comments (BAB1)

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