Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Critical Thinking II
Other languages of instruction: Spanish
Teaching staff
In my office after every class
Introduction
Critical Thinking II
The scope of this subject is to understand the concept of postmodernity and identify its implementation in different architectural projects. Previously is analyzed the concept of modernity from the point of view of plastic art, through texts and architectural designs.
Pre-course requirements
- Participation in class
- Aptitude to work in team
- Availability for personal interviews
- Relation capacity with the rest of the class
- Capacity for text comments
- Availability analysis and correction of the taken notes
- Conditions for oral exhibition of a work
- The excessive dependence on Internet is penalized
Objectives
1. To owe and understand
To understand the reality
To know everything and your parts
Knowledge is not to have but to be
To share and to announce the truth
Study habit
To plan the work,
To programme calendar
To verify, to revise, to correct
2. To apply knowledge
Problems answer(solution)
To include and to annotate the threads
To be right
To multiply the working capacity and array
Competitiveness,
Problem solving
Sense of the opportunity and of the efficacy
Safety and confidence in the work
3. To assemble to interpret.
To judge
Set vision
To be right
To consider
To find the virtue
To share the vital decisions
Valor to discover lagoons
Sense of the prudence and of the adventurousness
To wait without extracting hasty conclusions
4. To communicate
Explanatory clarity
To go to the main thing without neglecting the secondary thing
To generate confidence
To speak skylight,
To be appended,
Not polemizar
To transmit the innovation and the value of the tradition
To dose the information
Quality in the briefness
5. To be autonomous
Worldliness
Personal ripeness
To be able to consult without losing the tiemposaber to depend on others
To be wise persons without being autosufficient(self-sufficient)
To flee of the precipitation,
To exercise control on the reality
Personal and group safety
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL FRAME. DEPARTMENT EDUCATION AND SCIENCE. State Department of Universities and Investigation
1. The kernel of the targets of the new organization of the education is the competitions acquisition on the part of the students
2. It will have to do emphasis on the learning methods of the above mentioned competitions and on the procedures to evaluate them
3. The term(end) competition is used exclusively in your academic meaning, and not in your meaning of professional attribution
4. Competitions 1: combination of knowledge, skills (intellectual, manual, social, etc.), attitudes and values to solve problems or to intervene in matters.
4.1. To distinguish between the exception and the rule, the parts and everything, the periphery and the center
4.2. To increase simultaneity skills in the analysis and the synthesis before complex problems
4.3. To base the self-esteem on the self-knowledge
4.4. To discover talents. To create and to form teams. Not to become essential
4.5. To compare ideas. To recount what is learned to what is known
4.6. To discern targets. I cut, come up, long term
4.7. Proved(Turned out to be) Objetivar. To distinguish advance, achievement and success
5. Competitions 2: especificity of the acquired knowledge and your application to the grade of architecture (before every competition there is specified your numerical denomination relative to the Curriculum of the BOE):
- 40 - Ability to express architectural criticism.
- 48 - To acquire adequate knowledge of the general theories of form, composition and architectural typologies
- 50 - To acquire adequate knowledge of the study methods for the processes of symbolization, practical functions and ergonomics.
- 53 - To acquire adequate knowledge of architectural, urban development and landscaping traditions of Western culture, as well as their technical, climate, economic, social and ideological foundations
- 54 - To acquire adequate knowledge of the aesthetics, theory and history of Fine Arts and Applied Arts.
- 57 - To acquire adequate knowledge of urban sociology, theory, economy and history.
- 66 - Ability to internalise architectural form.
- 67 - Ability to understand and analyse architecture and the city in relation to philosophical and societal systems.
- 77 - To acquire adequate knowledge of the analysis and theory of form and laws of visual perception.
Learning outcomes of the subject
The kernel of the targets of the subject will have been the competitions acquisition on the part of the students it will have to have done emphasis on the learning methods of the above mentioned competitions and on the procedures to evaluate it the term(end) competition will have been used exclusively in your academic meaning, and not in your meaning of professional attribution there will be understood like valid result of the education the sense of the expression "competitions" as combination of knowledge, skills (intellectual, manual, social, etc.), attitudes and values to solve problems or to intervene in matters.
Syllabus
CRITICAL THINKING II: POSTMODERNITY AND ARCHITECTURE
Unit 1: Modernity
After Cubism (Jeanneret and Ozenfant, 1918)
Economy, precision, rigour, and universality (Piñón, 2006)
Classical form and modern form. The beginnings of Le Corbusier.
Practice: Villa Stein
Unit 2: Robert Ventury
Complexity and Contradiction
Speech of HRH in the 150th aniversary of the RIBA
DSB: In defence of Sainsbury Wing
Practice: Sainsbury Wing
Unit 3: Rafael Moneo
A way of teaching architecture. Lectures from Barcelona 1971-1976
Rafael Moneo: 1967-2004 (el croquis)
Rafael Moneo. Notes about 21 works (GG)
Practice: Museum of Roman Art in Merida
Unit 4: Peter Zumthor
Atmospheres
The practice of architecture (video)
Peter Davy (AR) about Zumthor
Practice: Kolumba Museum
Unit 5: Alberto Campo Baeza
On the measurement of ideas
Esthereotomic vs Tectonic
Caja Granada Savings Bank
MA Museum in Granda
Teaching and learning activities
In person
Each unit consists of four sessions 90 minutes long (two per week): two sessions of theory and two sessions of practice.
| TRAINING ACTIVITY | COMPETENCES | ECTS CREDITS |
|---|---|---|
| Class exhibition | 40 48 50 51 53 54 55 57 66 67 68 69 75 76 77 | 1,15 |
| Clase practice | 40 48 50 51 53 54 55 57 66 67 68 69 75 76 77 | 1,34 |
| Individual or group study | 40 48 50 51 53 54 55 57 66 67 68 69 75 76 77 | 2,5 |
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
80% final exam.
20% practices and attendance and involvement in lectures.
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