IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
Subject (*) COMPOSITION II Code 22204130
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in Architecture (2010)
 Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
4 Compulsory Fourth 2Q
Language
Anglès
Department Predepartment Architecture Unit
Coordinator
RODENAS GARCÍA, JUAN FERNANDO
 E-mail juanfernando.rodenas@urv.cat
Lecturers
RODENAS GARCÍA, JUAN FERNANDO
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General description and relevant information <p>The course is scheduled to be taught in person and this presence will be maintained if the regulations that may be issued by the health authorities and other competent bodies do not say otherwise, and the capacity requirements allow it. If there are changes they will be reported to the Moodle space of the subject.</p>

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
 CT1-G Use information in a foreign language effectively
 CT5-G Communicate information clearly and precisely to a variety of audiences
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

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
 CT1-G Use information in a foreign language effectively
 CT5-G Produce quality texts that have no grammatical or spelling errors, are properly structured and make appropriate and consistent use of formal and bibliographic conventions
Draw up texts that are structured, clear, cohesive, rich and of the appropriate length
Draw up texts that are appropriate to the communicative situation, consistent and persuasive
Use the techniques of non-verbal communication and the expressive resources of the voice to make a good oral presentation
Construct a discourse that is structured, clear, cohesive, rich and of the appropriate length
Produce a discourse that is appropriate to the communicative situation, consistent and persuasive, and interact effectively with the audience
Type C Code Learning outcomes

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
A59
A67
 3 0 3
Workshop (architecture)
A59
A67
CT5-G
 28 25 53
Personal attention
CT5-G
 5 35 40
 
Extended-answer tests
A53
 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

Students will be able to hold tutorials both in the classroom and in the office and by video conference at agreed times. The exercises will be redrawn in pencil and by hand, the plants, the two elevations and the most relevant sections. Up to two deliveries of each exercise will be made, which will be corrected in class before the classmates. The corrections will be public before the rest of the classmates.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Workshop (architecture)
A59
A67
CT5-G
 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
 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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