Faculty of Technical Sciences

Subject: Textual Function of Architecture & City - Selected Chapters (17.SDD8A)

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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 textuality of 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
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
Coates, N. Narrative Architecture 2012 Wiley, Chichester English
Dovey, K. Framing places: mediating power in built form. 1999 Routledge, Njujork English
Course activity Pre-examination Obligations Number of points
Project Yes Yes 70.00
Prezentacija i završna odbrana projekta No Yes 30.00
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