IDENTIFYING DATA 2019_20
Subject (*) COMPOSITION I Code 22204131
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture (2010)
 Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
4 Compulsory Fourth 1Q
Language
Anglès
Department Predepartment Architecture Unit
Coordinator
ZUAZNABAR UZCUDUN, GUILLERMO
 E-mail guillermo.zuaznabar@urv.cat
Lecturers
ZUAZNABAR UZCUDUN, GUILLERMO
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General description and relevant information

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A59 Adequate knowledge of the general theories of form, composition and architectural typology.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
 B3 Critical, logical and creative thinking, and an ability to innovate
 B4 Autonomy, responsibility and initiative
 B6 Clear and effective communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in public or a specific technical field
 B10 aesthetic sensitivity
Type C Code Competences Nuclear
 C1 Have an intermediate mastery of a foreign language, preferably English
 C2 Be advanced users of the information and communication technologies
 C3 Be able to manage information and knowledge
 C4 Be able to express themselves correctly both orally and in writing in one of the two official languages of the URV

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A59 Visual and compositional analysis of modern architecture through graphic documents and models.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
 B3 Find new methods for doing things.
 B4 Decide how to do a particular job so that it is of the highest quality possible.
 B6 Draft documents with the appropriate format, content, structure, language accuracy and register, and illustrate concepts using the appropriate conventions: formats, titles, footnotes, captions, etc.
 B10 Composa With aesthetic criteria
Type C Code Learning outcomes
 C1 Understand instructions about classes or tasks assigned by the teaching staff.
 C2 Use software for off-line communication: word processors, spreadsheets and digital presentations.
 C3 Reflect on, review and evaluate the information management process.
 C4 Produce written texts that are appropriate to the communicative situation

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Stefan Zweig: The world from yesterday
Development of the composition in the modern house - Robie House, Fran Lloyd Wright, Oak Park Illinois, 1906.
- Une petite maison, Le Corbusier, Lac Léman 1923.
- Pabellón de Alemania, Mies vand der Rohe, Barcelona 1929. (Recreación 1989).
- Farnsworth house, Mies van der Rohe, Plano, Illinois 1946.

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
3 2 5
Lecture
A59
B3
B4
B10
C4
 10 22 32
Lecture
B6
 10 18 28
Personal attention
B3
B4
B10
C4
 10 18 28
 
Practical tests
A59
B3
B10
C4
 7 0 7
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Introduction to composition: Academy. Composition treaties.
Lecture - Robie House, Fran Lloyd Wright, Oak Park Illinois, 1906.
- Une petite maison, Le Corbusier, Lac Léman 1923.
Lecture - German Pavilion, Mies vand der Rohe, Barcelona 1929. (Recreación 1989).(A’)
- Farnsworth house, Mies van der rohe, Plano, Illinois 1946.(B’)
Personal attention Analysis and correction of the works

Personalized attention
Description
The corrections will be held in class and they will be useful for the rest of the students. If the student asks for it the corrections could be held in the office during the anounced timetable. The exercises consist in drwaing in pencil and by hand, plants, elevations and the most relevant cuts. Each exercise consists in two deliveries. The corrections will be held in class and they will be useful for the rest of the students.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Practical tests
A59
B3
B10
C4
 It will be evaluated the attendance, everyday work, the contribution in class and in order to develop the exercises the quality of the documents used.
It will be specially considered the quality ant the truthfulness of the drawings, the general treatment, and the graphic resources used; as well as the clearness in the presentation of the analyzed elements and the composition quality of the sheets.
The described readings and the analysis of them must be realized in the apointed day. All the deliveries as well as the readings must be realized in order to be evaluated.
Deliveries by people different of the author, and out of classes schedule will be not accepted. Two no entries, or a final no entries will be evaluated as a NP (Not Presented) for all the subject. The evaluation is continuous. 		65%
Others  

Readings and class contribution

35%
 
Other comments and second exam session

3 no atendance days comes into a NP for all the subject. In the last delivery day could be recovered delayed entries (maximun 2) or two works to improve the grade (maximun 2 works)

Sources of information

Basic

*Ricardo Daza, Buscando a Mies, Actar, Barcelona 2000.
Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand, Compendio de lecciones de arquitectura: parte gráfica de los cursos de arquitectura,
Pronaos, Madrid 1981.
Sigfried Giedion, La mecanización toma el mando (1948), Gustvo Gili, Barcelona 1978.
Adolf Loos, Escritos I y II, El croquis editorial, Madrid 1993.
Robert McCarter, Unity Temple : Frank Lloyd Wright, Phaidon, London 1997.
Lewis Mumford, El Mito de la máquina, Emecé, Buenos Aires ; Barcelona, 1969.
*Josep Quetglas, El Horror cristalizado: imágenes del Pabellón de Alemania de Mies van der Rohe, Actar, Barcelona
2001.
*Josep Quetglas, “Cómo se construye una casita”, en: AA.VV., Le Corbusier mise au point, (Coord. Jorge Torres),
Memorias culturales, Valencia 2012.
Frank Lloyd Wright, Autobiografía : 1867-(1943), El Croquis, Madrid 1998.
*Frank Lloyd Wright, "The arts and Crafts of the Machine. Els arts i oficis de la màquina (1901), en: Frank Lloyd
Wright. Primers escrits, Josep Quetglas (ed.), Edicions UPC, Barcelona 1994.
*Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern, (1941), El món d’ahir. Memóries d’un europeu,
(trad.: J. Fontcuberta) Quaderns Crema, Barcelona 2001.
*Stefan Zweig, Die Welt von Gestern, (1941), El mundo de ayer. Memorias de un europeo,
(trad.: J. Fontcuberta y A. Orzeszek) El Acantilado, Barcelona 2002.
Bruno Zevi, Poética de la arquitectura neoplástica, Victor Leru, Buenos Aires 1960.
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