This syllabus is valid: 2011-09-05
and until further notice
Course code: 5AR510
Credit points: 20
Education level: Second cycle
Main Field of Study and progress level:
Architecture: Second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Grading scale: Two-grade scale
Responsible department: Umeå School of Architecture
Required Knowledge
To qualify for this course the following courses (or comparable courses) are required: 5ar501 Advanced Architectural Design (6 hp); 5ar500 Advanced Constructions and Processes of Architectural Design (20 hp); 5ar502 Technology of Construction and Optimization (8 hp); 5ar503 Technology of Material and Resources (4 hp); 5ar404 Sustainable Architectural Concepts and Systems (20 hp); 5ar405 Theory of Communication (2 hp)
Proficiency in English equivalent to Swedish upper Secondary course English A/5. Where the language of instruction is Swedish, applicants must prove proficiency in Swedish to the level required for basic eligibility for higher studies.
Literature
Valid from:
2013 week 40
Breaking Through Concrete : Building an Urban Farm Revival Berkeley : University of California Press : 2011 :
The Metapolis dictionary of advanced architecture : city, technology and society in the information age Gausa Manuel, Cros Susanna Barcelona : Actar : 2003 : 688 s. : ISBN: 84-95951-22-3 (hd.bd.) Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue
My green city : back to nature with attitude and style Klanten Robert., Ehmann Sven., Bolhöfer Kitty. Berlin : Gestalten : 2011. : 235 p. : ISBN: 978-3-89955-334-5 Search the University Library catalogue
Sinha Sumita Architecture for rapid change and scarce resources London : Routledge : 2012 : xx, 300 p. : ISBN: 978-1-84971-115-9 (hbk.) : Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue
Stein Carl J. Greening modernism : preservation, sustainability, and the modern movement 1. ed. : New York : W.W. Norton & Co. : cop. 2010 : 296 s. : ISBN: 978-0-393-73283-2 (hardcover) Mandatory Search the University Library catalogue
Sternfeld Joel Sweet earth : experimental utopias in America Göttingen : Steidl : 2006 : 136 s. : ISBN: 3-86521-124-0 (hbk.) : Search the University Library catalogue
Tafuri Manfredo The sphere and the labyrinth : avant-gardes and architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press : cop. 1987 : 382 s. : ISBN: 0-262-20061-9 ; Search the University Library catalogue
Urban Composition : Designing Community through Urban Design Princeton Architectural Press : 2011 :
Urban Florian. Tower and slab : histories of global mass housing Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge : 2012. : xii, 208 p. : ISBN: 9780415676281 (hardback : alk. paper) Search the University Library catalogue
