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Selected Topics in Architecture and Urbanism

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    By the end of the course the students will be able to: - Analyze complex and realistic problems related to Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism and develop adequate solutions for the sustainable development of multidimensional and experimental characters - Apply locally adequate technologies and investigate their economic social and environmental impacts - Apply the principles of project based inquiry based didactics that built on real world study cases - Work with people from different scientific backgrounds in developing a holistic integrated scientific research Interdisciplinary teamwork - Develop the objectives of research as well as identify the conceptual framework monitor and evaluate the methodology and define the expected results
  • Course Goals
  • Sustainable Cities and Communities

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    Contemporary challenges in the Architecture and Urbanism fields, local context, contemporary issues, case studies, site visits, project management, report writing.
  • Department
    Urban Planning
  • Credit Hours
    3
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 0% , tr.Seminar 0% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 4, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    125
  • Equivalent ECTS
    5
  • - Periodicals and Journals in Architecture and Urbanism
  • - Barth M. 2015. Implementing sustainability in higher education learning in an age of transformation. London Routledge.
  • - Birkeland Janis. Design for sustainability A sourcebook of integrated ecological solutions. Routledge 2012.
  • - Sanoff Henry. Community participation methods in design and planning. John Wiley Sons 2000.
  • - Scholz Roland W. and Olaf Tietje. Embedded case study methods Integrating quantitative and qualitative knowledge. Sage 2002.