module specification

This module covers the range of professional skills, essential to practicing as an architect

The module aims to introduce students to key issues of professional practice in architecture and urban planning. It aims to develop their capacity for making well-argued professional judgments across a range of issues, related to their design practice. It expands their knowledge and skills in different forms of analysis, argument and presentation, both written and oral. It also offers the development of social, political and commercial skills.

'A work of architecture is invariably an advertisement of a point of view. It is never either pure form or pure function, nor can it be simply a mixture of both; but always, either forcibly or feebly, it involves an act of judgment. It is an attitude taken up with regard to society, history and change, the nature of pleasure, and other matters quite extraneous to either technique or taste.'
Colin Rowe, from the Cambridge Review, October 31, 1959.

The formal syllabus will examine a number of contemporary topics that are seen as critical issues for the architectural profession. This will be supported by skilling in different forms of analytical writing (e.g. design report, journalism, manifesto) and presentation. These will act as a guide to help students select and develop their own topics for investigation. Typically these will include:
- introduction to the variety of roles that architects and urbanists might and do take
- the ethics of architecture (professional codes and liability)
- management practices (different forms)
- legal practices (planning/agreements/contracts/employment)
- financial practices (politics/economics)
- regulatory practices (building codes/health and safety.)
- architectural writing and oral presentation for different audiences

Methods will include:
- Formal lectures from a range of voices in practice and academia
- Seminars and class presentations of work in progress
- Workshops to develop communication skills
- e-tutorial support
- applied research
 

By completing the module the student should be able to:
1. understand the professional role of the architect both locally and globally
2. be able to make well-argued professional judgments across a range of issues, related to their design practice
3. Show evidence of ability across a range of relevant professional communication skills
3. produce a cogent document of professional interest.
 

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