S2-EU 2 : 1° CYCLE LICENCE
S02-AR-2-3 : Architectural analysis
Managers: Sébastien Cherruet
Objectives
The purpose of the architectural analysis tutorials is to help students discover architecture and the city; to sharpen their eyes, to concretely experience the reality of space, to perceive its effects, scales, and materiality, to put words to the elements and notions of architecture, and to learn to notice and describe them. TDs allow for a synthesis of the various teachings of the semester in all disciplines through observation and the direct application of knowledge and know-how.
Understanding, acquisition of knowledge:
- Understand the form, the spatial devices, the static functioning, the uses, the urban inscription of a building; relate the elements that determine the organization of the space;
- Discern the issues at stake and the specific choices of the architect;
- to appropriate the vocabulary and the main issues of architecture;
- apprehend the recurrence of themes encountered in history and their ability to enrich reflection on the project today.
Restitution :
- describe and represent; use the architect's means of observation and communication: analytical drawing, geometric representations, written expression;
- Organize and prioritize a subject, order it in texts and images;
- Represent the spatial translations of an idea or a system of architectural thought.
- Use the tools of analysis to question what one has looked at.
Understanding, acquisition of knowledge:
- Understand the form, the spatial devices, the static functioning, the uses, the urban inscription of a building; relate the elements that determine the organization of the space;
- Discern the issues at stake and the specific choices of the architect;
- to appropriate the vocabulary and the main issues of architecture;
- apprehend the recurrence of themes encountered in history and their ability to enrich reflection on the project today.
Restitution :
- describe and represent; use the architect's means of observation and communication: analytical drawing, geometric representations, written expression;
- Organize and prioritize a subject, order it in texts and images;
- Represent the spatial translations of an idea or a system of architectural thought.
- Use the tools of analysis to question what one has looked at.
Content
In the first year, the references chosen will allow students to confront simple notions of architecture: composition, scale, materiality, light, structure and space,....
These notions will be approached through their historical, architectural and constructive dimensions.
6 visits to buildings, each followed by a work session at the school. The visits include a period of supervised personal observation and the creation of analytical drawings.
These notions will be approached through their historical, architectural and constructive dimensions.
6 visits to buildings, each followed by a work session at the school. The visits include a period of supervised personal observation and the creation of analytical drawings.
Evaluation method
Continuous assessment
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given the context, the evaluation will be based on the work done during the last session, scheduled for May 19.
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given the context, the evaluation will be based on the work done during the last session, scheduled for May 19.
Work required
At the end of each work session at the school, the student will hand in a personal written and drawn work on white paper.
- A representation in diagram, sensitive drawing, geometrical or descriptive sketch,
- An analytical interpretation of the elements and notions,
- A complementarity between drawings and text.
Grading criteria:
- reading and understanding of architectural devices and choices, based on key concepts
- precise treatment of a subject using the right analytical tools and appropriate vocabulary
- relevance and accuracy of drawings (appropriateness to the subject, correct scale and proportions)
- articulation of text/legends/pictures; organization of the subject.
- quality of written expression and argumentation
- A representation in diagram, sensitive drawing, geometrical or descriptive sketch,
- An analytical interpretation of the elements and notions,
- A complementarity between drawings and text.
Grading criteria:
- reading and understanding of architectural devices and choices, based on key concepts
- precise treatment of a subject using the right analytical tools and appropriate vocabulary
- relevance and accuracy of drawings (appropriateness to the subject, correct scale and proportions)
- articulation of text/legends/pictures; organization of the subject.
- quality of written expression and argumentation
Hours
Lectures : 0.00
Tutorials : 36.00
ECTS credit
3.00
Coefficients
3.00