IDENTIFYING DATA 2023_24
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
MIRALLES JORI, ROGER
E-mail roger.miralles@urv.cat
Lecturers
MIRALLES JORI, ROGER
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General description and relevant information <div>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.</div>

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A59 Adequate knowledge of the general theories of form, composition and architectural typology.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
 CT2-G Managing information and knowledge through the efficient use of IT
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

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
 CT2-G Master the tools for managing their own identity and activities in a digital environment
Search for and find information autonomously with criteria of reliability and relevance
Organize information with appropriate tools (online and face-to-face) so that they can carry out their academic activities
Produce information with tools and formats appropriate to the communicative situation and with complete honesty
Use IT to share and exchange information
Type C Code Learning outcomes

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
10 22 32
Assignments
CT2-G
10 18 28
Personal attention
10 18 28
 
Practical tests
A59
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.
Assignments - 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

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        
Practical tests
A59
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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