Objectives of Programme's Learning Outcomes

• Instruct a question on architecture and urban planning
• Consolidate their architectural and urban culture with a research approach
• Finalise architecture and urban planning projects adapted to a context
• Interact with all actors
• Contribute to the development of knowledge and its dissemination to the public or professionals
• Integrate actors' different expectations related to architecture, urban planning and spatial planning
• Make choices
• Demonstrate independence of thought and action.
• Instruct a question on architecture
• Identify different assumptions with respect to an architectural problem
• Transversely coordinate the various disciplines related to architecture
• Finalise architecture and urban planning projects adapted to a context
• Consolidate their architectural and urban culture with a research approach
• Develop an identified spatial response
• Adopt an applied scientific approach
• Develop a project methodology incorporating the different architectural constraints
• Interact with all actors
• Contribute to the development of knowledge and its dissemination to the public or professionals
• Integrate actors' different expectations related to architecture, urban planning and spatial planning
• Make choices
• Demonstrate independence of thought and action.

Learning Outcomes of UE

Lesson aims at developing the critical attitude of the students by questioning on aesthetic stakes and political mechanisms of architectural criticism on architectural production in XXTH - XXITH s. At the end of this education, the students will be capable of developing a personal critical opinion in the field of current architecture. This "lesson-seminar « allows them to introduce the debate on the sources of architectural criticism and to assess the interest of a transverse approach for trandisciplinaire research in architecture. The question setting épistémologique on knowledge "there " or "of " architecture aims at highlighting approaches specific for research «in architecture» and «on architecture».   Questioning the status of contemporary art - with its technological diversification and expansion of the scope of the investigation has invested a plastic transdisciplinary major role in the architectural or urban setting.To assess the role of the art critic and independent manner, the aesthetic analysis approach comes: objectified our artistic sensitivity, demonstrate the effects sought by the artist, decode the message of the work and enjoy the integration Urban and natural space. Beyond a simple look carried on art, lesson aims at improving our perception and capacity of opening in to the world. An interdisciplinary and sensory reflexion relating to the "nomadism" of artistic and scientific languages will allow the student in to position in their architectural course.

Content of UE

Chronologically, lesson redraws the influence of vanguard and actors of period of the glorious trentes on our contemporary architectural context and critical thought in architecture. Of research "on " and "in " architecture, lesson assesses the pertinence of methods and transverse approaches in a mosaic of topics approaching stakes of architectural criticism. What plan criticises for contemporary architecture? If question setting is individual, resolution emanates collectively. Contemporary art in the visual arts: -

1. The proliferation of avant-garde twentieth s. (Cobra, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, Minimal Art, ...);
         
2. Art in the dimension of the landscape after 1968: the Land-art

3. Art for the city: urban redevelopment in the 1980s to nowadays (plastic integrations and street furniture)

4. Art for social housing

5. Environmental art.

6. Art and participation, art and sound, ...  

Prior Experience

Not applicable

Type of Assessment for UE in Q2

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral Examination
• Practical test
• Quoted exercices

Q2 UE Assessment Comments

Oral examination separated by AA with presentation of works.

Type of Assessment for UE in Q3

• Presentation and/or works
• Oral examination
• Practical Test
• Quoted exercices

Q3 UE Assessment Comments

Oral examination separated by AA with presentation of works.