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AAR4735 - Architecture and the City - Knowledge Course C

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New from the academic year 2024/2025

Examination arrangement

Examination arrangement: Assignment
Grade: Letter grades

Evaluation Weighting Duration Grade deviation Examination aids
Assignment 100/100

Course content

The aim of the course it to develop knowledge and understanding in relation to the overall theme, and the project activities, undertaken in the integrated project studio ‘AAR4731 Architecture and City - Project Course C’. The course requires students to undertake research and analytical activities in relation to one or more architectural, urban design or planning related topics.

Learning outcome

Knowledge

The candidate:

- has achieved advanced and new knowledge within the knowledge field of architecture which is related to the theme of the design project in the attached design course.

- has advanced and relevant aesthetic and practical understanding (tacit knowledge) and shows progression of this.

- has developed an advanced experiential knowledge of the relationship between architectural representations at different levels of abstraction, and built architecture, towns and cities that are in use over time.

-has advanced knowledge of different aspects of sustainability and can relate these in known and new ways to their own work.

Skills

The candidate:

- is in command, and develops their use, of a range of architectural methods, tools, and forms of expression.

- is able to critically assess and recognize quality in architecture and / or cities and towns and can make use of such assessments in their own work.

- can navigate within research and development in the field of architecture and can apply this knowledge in their own work and through academic texts and production.

-is able to assess and evaluate their own work in light of the different aspects of sustainability and can put these in both known and new relations to esthetic and architectural quality.

General competence

The candidate:

- takes independent responsibility for their own learning and professional development and is able to apply their knowledge in new fields.

- is able to reflect critically and ethically on their own architectural work and create new frameworks for understanding and shows progress within this.

- is able to communicate architectural work at a professional level and in an academic context.

- relates and develops their professional competence and commitment to important societal issues and sustainability.

Learning methods and activities

Is being described in the current course description or assignments for the semester.

Further on evaluation

The submitted work forms the basis for the assessment. Postponed exams are usually set to the next exam period.

Specific conditions

Admission to a programme of study is required:
Architecture (MAAR)
Architecture (MAAR2)

Required previous knowledge

Admission to a programme of study is required:

Architecture (MAAR)

Architecture (MAAR2)

Completed three years basic courses in architecture, bachelor's degree in architecture, or equivalent. The course is the main element of a combination with - AAR4731 Architecture and the city - Project Course C - which must be taken in the same semester.

Course materials

Formulated by the given task description.

More on the course

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Facts

Version: 1
Credits:  7.5 SP
Study level: Second degree level

Coursework

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  AUTUMN 2024

Term no.: 1
Teaching semester:  SPRING 2025

Language of instruction: English, Norwegian

Location: Trondheim

Subject area(s)
  • Architecture

Examination

Examination arrangement: Assignment

Term Status code Evaluation Weighting Examination aids Date Time Examination system Room *
Autumn ORD Assignment 100/100 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
Spring ORD Assignment 100/100 INSPERA
Room Building Number of candidates
  • * The location (room) for a written examination is published 3 days before examination date. If more than one room is listed, you will find your room at Studentweb.
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