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Architecture Profession and Legislations

What Will Learn?

  • Course Aims
    Examine the relationship between Human Rights principles and the development of architectural and building legislation, regulations, and codes. Provide students with insights into the nature, scope, and opportunities of the architectural profession. Introduce the principles of professional practice, professional responsibility, and engineering ethics, and their application in academic settings and the workplace.
  • Course Goals
  • Quality Education
  • Climate Action

Requirements

Description

  • English Description

    The course focuses on different roles of architects/urban designers, contractors and buildings’ owners during the construction process. Moreover, it previews codes of ethics, professional practices and legislation. The course also investigates and illustrates the construction bylaws and executive regulation No. 119 for 2008.
  • Arabic Description

    The course focuses on different roles of architects/urban designers, contractors and buildings’ owners during the construction process. Moreover, it previews codes of ethics, professional practices and legislation. The course also investigates and illustrates the construction bylaws and executive regulation No. 119 for 2008.
  • Department
    Architecture Engineering
  • Credit Hours
    2
  • Grades
    Total ( 100 ) = Midterm (20) + tr.Major Assessment (35 = tr.Industry 0% , tr.Project 0% , tr.Self_learning 25% , tr.Seminar 10% ) + tr.Minor Assessment (5) + Exam Grade (40)
  • Hours
    Lecture Hours: 1, Tutorial Hours: 2, Lab Hours: 0
  • Required SWL
    100
  • Equivalent ECTS
    4
  • Arab Republic of Egypt. (2008). Building Law No. 119 of 2008 and its executive regulations issued by Ministerial Decree No. 144 of 2009. Cairo, Egypt: Official Gazette.
  • United Nations. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights (General Assembly Resolution 217A (III), December 10, 1948). New York, NY: United Nations. Retrieved from https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights
  • National Organization for Urban Harmony. (n.d.). Urban harmony standards, criteria, and guidelines. Cairo, Egypt: Ministry of Culture. Retrieved from http://urbanharmony.org/