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Semester 1
Architecture Associated teaching platform
S01-AR-2-3 : Architectural analysis
Objectives
The purpose of the architectural analysis seminars is to introduce students to architecture and the city, to sharpen their observational skills, to gain hands-on experience with the reality of space, to perceive its effects, scales, and materiality, to articulate the elements and concepts of architecture, and to learn to identify and describe them. These tutorials provide a synthesis of the various course materials covered during the semester across all disciplines through observation and the direct application of knowledge and skills.
Understanding and Knowledge Acquisition:
- Understand a building’s form, spatial arrangements, structural function, uses, and urban context; relate the elements that determine the organization of space
- Identify the issues at stake and the architect’s specific choices
- Become familiar with the vocabulary and key issues in architecture
- Understand the recurring themes encountered throughout history and their ability to enrich current thinking about the project.
Presentation:
- Describe and represent using the architect’s tools for observation and communication: analytical drawings, geometric representations, and written expression
- Organize and prioritize a line of reasoning, structuring it into text and images
- Represent the spatial translations of an idea or an architectural system of thought.
- Use analytical tools to examine what has been observed.
Understanding and Knowledge Acquisition:
- Understand a building’s form, spatial arrangements, structural function, uses, and urban context; relate the elements that determine the organization of space
- Identify the issues at stake and the architect’s specific choices
- Become familiar with the vocabulary and key issues in architecture
- Understand the recurring themes encountered throughout history and their ability to enrich current thinking about the project.
Presentation:
- Describe and represent using the architect’s tools for observation and communication: analytical drawings, geometric representations, and written expression
- Organize and prioritize a line of reasoning, structuring it into text and images
- Represent the spatial translations of an idea or an architectural system of thought.
- Use analytical tools to examine what has been observed.
Content
In the first year, the selected case studies will allow students to explore basic concepts in architecture: composition, scale, materiality, light, structure, and space, among others.
These concepts will be examined from historical, architectural, and structural perspectives.
These concepts will be examined from historical, architectural, and structural perspectives.
Evaluation method
Continuous monitoring
Work required
At the end of each class session at school, students must submit an individual assignment consisting of written text and drawings on white paper.
- A representation in the form of a diagram, a freehand drawing, a geometric sketch, or a descriptive sketch,
- An analytical interpretation of the elements and concepts,
- A complementary relationship between the drawings and the text.
Grading Criteria:
- Reading and understanding architectural features and design choices based on key concepts;
- Precise treatment of a topic using the right analytical tools and appropriate vocabulary;
- Relevance and accuracy of the drawings (relevance to the topic, correct scale and proportions);
- Coordination of text, captions, and images; organization of the argument.
- Quality of written expression and argumentation
- A representation in the form of a diagram, a freehand drawing, a geometric sketch, or a descriptive sketch,
- An analytical interpretation of the elements and concepts,
- A complementary relationship between the drawings and the text.
Grading Criteria:
- Reading and understanding architectural features and design choices based on key concepts;
- Precise treatment of a topic using the right analytical tools and appropriate vocabulary;
- Relevance and accuracy of the drawings (relevance to the topic, correct scale and proportions);
- Coordination of text, captions, and images; organization of the argument.
- Quality of written expression and argumentation
Hours
Tutorials: 36
ECTS credit
3
Coefficients
3