SPECIALIZATIONS, INSIGHTS, EXPERIMENTATIONS: SPECIAL TOPICS OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: GREECE AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH -20th-21st CENTURY

Course Information
TitleΕΞΕΙΔΙΚΕΥΕΙΣ. ΕΜΒΑΘΥΝΣΕΙΣ, ΠΕΙΡΑΜΑΤΙΣΜΟΙ: ΕΙΔΙΚΑ ΘΕΜΑΤΑ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΟΝΙΚΗΣ: ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΑΡΧ/ΚΗ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΧ/ΚΕΣ ΤΟΥ ΠΑΓΚΟΣΜΙΟΥ ΝΟΤΟΥ 20ος ΚΑΙ 21ος ΑΙ / SPECIALIZATIONS, INSIGHTS, EXPERIMENTATIONS: SPECIAL TOPICS OF ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY: GREECE AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH -20th-21st CENTURY
Code08ET10
FacultyEngineering
SchoolArchitecture
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate
Teaching PeriodSpring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600000517

Programme of Study: MERIKĪ FOITĪSĪ - PROGRAMMA SPOUDŌN 2020-21 EŌS SĪMERA

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective Courses belonging to the selected specialization846

Programme of Study: PROGRAMMA SPOUDŌN 2020-21 EŌS SĪMERA

Registered students: 2
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSElective Courses belonging to the selected specialization846

Class Information
Academic Year2022 – 2023
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Class ID
600213220
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • Greek (Instruction, Examination)
  • English (Examination)
Learning Outcomes
The students of the course are expected to - develop their personal research practices, on subjects that are not approached through the mandatory courses of History of Architecture offered in the first stagres of their studies - approach and critically analyze the architectural creation within the wider political, social and cultural context of each period - enrich their theoretical background and their methodological tools in the field of Documentation and Restoration of monuments - gain an insight of the contribution of History of Architecture in providing to young architects spiritual and aesthetic values, critical approach to historical memory and a comprehensive humanistic education
General Competences
  • Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
  • Make decisions
  • Work autonomously
  • Work in teams
  • Generate new research ideas
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
This course attempts to highlight to students lesser-known aspects of modern architectural production in the so-called regions of the global South, with an emphasis on the Greek context. The backbone of the course is structured on the conceptual opposition between the North and the South, as put forward by the Portuguese sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The North/South antithesis indicates the asymmetric relationship that develops between different regions of the planet from the ideological domination of the North which is constantly reproduced through capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. This polarised ideological condition also had consequences in the field of architecture, with the dominant historiography reproducing exclusions that are not recognized by the narrative constructed by the Western, white, masculine gaze and discourse. The course is not based on a chronological organisation of the material based on historical development, but instead on typological clusters (urban scale, Collective Housing, Collective Infrastructure, etc.) that compose a transhistorical investigation of architectural production in Greece, the Iberian Peninsula, and the African Continent during the 20th and 21st centuries. Central to this investigation is the concept of the exemplary object (building, plan, text, exhibition, etc.), namely a general and simultaneously specific object that highlights all the parameters that allowed its creation at a specific historical moment.
Keywords
Seminar, History of Architecture
Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
  • Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures26
Seminars13
Reading Assigment48
Tutorial9
Written assigments48
Exams6
Total150
Student Assessment
Description
The character of the course is that of a seminar-type approach; students are encouraged to put through their personal research and prepare an essay (ca. 2500 words) on a subject of their choice, following the standards of a 15-minute conference paper. The papers will be presented in class in the end of the semester and the rating of each student will be done on the basis of the essay
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
  • Performance / Staging (Summative)
  • Brief report on the state of art and main sources of the research
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
[10307] Γιακουμακάτος, Α. 2004. Ιστορία της Ελληνικής Αρχιτεκτονικής – 20ος Αιώνας. Αθήνα: Νεφέλη. [25741] Φιλιππίδης, Δ. 2006. Ανθολογία Κειμένων Ελληνικής Αρχιτεκτονικής. Αθήνα: Μέλισσα. [77117266] Αίσωπος, Γ και Γ. Σημαιοφορίδης. 2008. Η Σύγχρονη (Ελληνική) Πόλη. Αθήνα: ΔΟΜΕΣ.
Last Update
21-02-2022