Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Architectural and urban narratives (17.A328)

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Architecture (Year: 3, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Theoretical-methodological
Scientific or art field	Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS	4

Research on narrative structures of architectural and urban spaces, as well as narrative practices in architecture and correlating spatial disciplines, with an aim of developing analytical and creative skills for recognising, reading, developing and realisation of narratives on different spatial levels.

Becoming capable of recognising and understanding different ways of using narratives in the articulation of space; mastering the principles related to the Narrative Embodiment Method, in architecture and correlating spatial disciplines; understanding the creative potentials of using narratives as generators of different spatial systems, and at the same time, understanding the use of architectural spatial framework as a generator of specific meanings and effects in temporary reinterpretations of already built spaces.

Narrative practices in architecture and urbanism; Types of spatial narratives; Textuality of an architectural form; Textual function of space and its different models; Performative function of space and specific mechanisms of its establishment; Designed narratives of architectural and urban spaces; Generated narratives of architectural and urban spaces; Narrative Embodiment Method in architecture and correlating disciplines; Narrative as a generator of the concept and/or programme in architecture and urbanism – case studies.

Lectures; Practical work; Consultations.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Kim Dovey	Framing places: Mediating power in built form	1999	London and New York: Routledge	English
Coates, N.	Narrative Architecture	2012	Wiley, Chichester	English