Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Textual Function of Architecture and Urbanism (17.A927)

Type of studies	Title
Doctoral Academic Studies	Architecture (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Scientific-professional
Scientific or art field	Architectural-Urbanistic Planning, Design and Theory
ECTS	10

Acquiring ability for in-depth and comprehensive understanding of architecture and the city as specific forms of language and systems of communication, as well as ability to use gained experiences in student’s own professional, artistic and research practices. Also, understanding architectural discipline and architectural work as a complex system of different functions, where textuality is understood as a complex and widely set communication ability, in multiple contexts vs. work relations.

Students' ability to identify, understand and analyze architectural and urban text, its layers, and complex relations towards the context in which it emerges.

Concept of text. Urban space as text. Types of communication in the city. Architecture as a city language. Architecture as a media infrastructure. Aspects of textual in structure or space: narrative, marking, reading, interpretation, semantics, representation, spatial syntax, and similar. Text on architecture as the basis for the construction of discourse.

Lectures, workshops, individual research work.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Coates, N.	Narrative Architecture	2012	Wiley, Chichester	English
Lawson, Bryan	The Language of Space	2001	Architectural Press, Oxford	English
Markus, Thomas and Deborah Cameron	The Words Between the Spaces: Buildings and Language	2002	Routledge, London	English
Dovey, Kim	Framing places: mediating power in built form	1999	Routledge, New York	English