1. THIRD SEMESTERS 2013, SECOND YEAR (Architecture Batch 2012)
Ar Rabia Siddiqui
Assist Professor DAP-DCET
2. As History of Architecture is the Core Course,
so in the framework for Bachelor in
Architecture, the Course title should be
changed as “History of Art and Architecture”
because the literature is very concerned with
the history of art including history of
architecture.
3. The Objectives of the Course would be at
their Formative Level to set their
attentiveness,
To promote awareness of the socio-cultured
politic-economic and technological context
of architecture, past and contemporary, so as
to create architecture that is relevant to its
place and time.
4. There is a need to create awareness about the
importance of heritage conservations.
VISIT:
Visits to the historical building of Karachi and
Thatta (Interior Sindh) would be arranged.
To fulfill the course objective a “DRAMA”
would be assigned to play with the theme of
past socio-cultured context of architecture.
5. WORKSHOP:
The concerned activities with the
collaboration of “The History Club and
Heritage Cell, DAP-NED” workshops will be
organized.
6. Renaissance and Baroque Architecture in
Europe and parallel developments in painting
and sculpture. The Industrial Revolution of
Europe, its social and economic
consequences. How the change in the mode
of production presented a new concept of Art
and Architecture.
7. Architectural and Artistic development
throughout the 19th & 20th Centuries in the
western world. The Arts and Craft movements
(Expipressionism, Tuturism, Cubism, Purism,
Brutalism and others).
8. A study of the works and philosophies of the
pioneers of modern architecture such as
Groupies, Mies Vander Rohe, Frank Lloyd
Wright and Le Corbusier.
9. The above described planned strategies will
be implemented during the teaching and the
input of the efforts would be resulted
positively.
10. Banister Fletcher, History of Architecture on
Comparative Methods.
Melon, baroque Architecture.
Doordan, Twentieth Century Architecture.
Blundell, Modern Architecture through Case Studies.
Frampton, Modern Architecture, A Critical History.
Perner, The Sources of Modern Architecture and
Design.
William Curtis, Modern Architecture Since 1900.
Frankel, Gothic Architecture.
Melon, baroque Architecture.
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