IDENTIFYING DATA 2019_20
Subject (*) COMPOSITION II Code 22204130
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture (2010)
Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
4 Compulsory Fourth
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
 A53 Ability to catalogue, plan and protect the built and urban heritage.
 A59 Adequate knowledge of the general theories of form, composition and architectural typology.
 A67 Adequate knowledge of the foundations of vernacular architecture.
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
 A53 Elaboration of inventory and catalogue records of architectural heritage, and protection proposals.
 A59 Visual and compositional analysis of modern architecture through graphic documents and models.
 A67 Knowledge of the history of architecture, construction forms and the architectural traditions of Western culture.
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
Architecture and landscape in Spain on 1950's and forward.


Josep Maria Sostres, “Paisaje y diseño”, Cuadernos de Arquitectura, n.64, Barcelona, 1966.

Arquitectura, arte i paisatge a Europa i EE.UU., desprès dels anys cinquenta. -CIAM
-Team X
-Bernard Rudofsky
-Aldo van Eyck
-Max Bill
Questions de la mirada y la percepció Veure: Josef Albers, John Berger, Marinna Abramovich.
Sistemes en la lectura i construcció del paisatge -Art, politica i territori: Jorge Oteiza, Joseph Beuys, Donald Judd.

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
Hours outside the classroom
(**) Total hours
Introductory activities
3 0 3
Workshop (architecture)
A53
B3
B4
B10
C3
28 25 53
Personal attention
5 35 40
 
Extended-answer tests
A53
B10
C1
C4
4 0 4
 
(*) 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 of the subject and the sessions
Workshop (architecture) In the sessions will be studied and analyzed the diferent tendencies and movements in the western contemporary architecture, from 1950's and forward.
Personal attention In class, offering assitance to the presentations and correcting the presentation criteria

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 the evolutions of the exercises as well as the presentations will be corrected in class.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Workshop (architecture)
A53
B3
B4
B10
C3
It will be evaluated the attendance, everyday work, the contribution in class and in order to develop the presentation the quality of the documents used.
It will be specially considered the quality ant the truthfulness of the information, the quality of the discourse in order to understand the evolution of the contemporary architecture along the second half of the century.
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 other people different of the author, and out of classes schedule will be not accepted. Two no entries, or a final no entrie will be evaluated as NP (Not Presented) for all the subject. The evaluation is continuous.
Extended-answer tests
A53
B10
C1
C4
The presentations must be organized in order to understand the analyzed period and the evolution of the contemporary architecture along the second half of the century.
Others  

Each student sould realize the following exercises: 1 Dossier that should be delivered the last class day with the following index: Notes of all the sessions (3 or 4 pages). Critical writings of the readings (300 word per article). Writing of the public presentation. 2. Public presentation (40%)

 
Other comments and second exam session

Those students with a failed grade or with an NP they should exam


Sources of information

Basic

- Josep Lluís Sert, “The Scope of Architecure” (“El alcance de la arquitectura”), Lecture to students at Harvard University
Graduate Design School, 17th March 1953. En: JAUME FREIXA, Josep Lluís Sert, Barcelona: Santa y Cole, ETSAB, 2005, pp.
199-201.
- Josep Maria Sostres, “Creación arquitectónica y manierismo”, Arquitectura Cuba, La Habana, marzo 1956.
- Josep Maria Sostres, “Paisaje y diseño”, Cuadernos de Arquitectura, n.64, Barcelona, 1966.
- Keneth Frampton, “Prospects for a Critical Regionalism”, Perspecta, Vol. 20, (1983), The MIT Press, pp. 147-162
- Edward Tufte, Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Graphics Press, Cheschire, Connecticut 1983.
- Edward Tufte, Visual explanations: images and quantities, evidence and narrative, Graphics Press, Cheschire,
Connecticut 1997.
- Bernard Rudofsky, Rudofsky: Lessons From Bernard Rudofsky. Life As A Voyage, Birkhäuser, Basel 2007.
- Alfons Tejero Farnós, Inventari de les restes arqueològiques I històriques de la plana de coll de Balaguer, Ajuntament de
Vandellós i l’Hospitalet de l’Infant, l’Hospitalet de l’Infant 2008.
- Cait, "Altafulla i Torredembarra 1950-2010 : arxiu d'arquitectura moderna en el seu context urbanístic" Torredembarra : Centre d'Estudis Sinibald de Mas ; Altafulla : Centre d'Estudis d'Altafulla, 2013.

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Other comments
To be able to read and to write. Enjoy drawing.To express correctly.
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