Valid from: Spring 2020
Decided by: fek-ger Gudbjörg Erlingsdóttir
Date of establishment: 2019-12-01
Division: Architecture
Course type: Third-cycle course
Teaching language: English
The course Tendencies in Architectural Research provides opportunities for doctoral students to achieve an overview of current approaches and practices in contemporary architectural research. The course also provides a basic introduction to architectural theory, methodology and academic publication.
Knowledge and Understanding
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Competences and Skills
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
Judgement and Approach
For a passing grade the doctoral student must
The course brings views about how architecture and urban design are essential for these settings and formations of life, and how ethnographical, observational, archival, art-based and practice-based methods can be used in this field.In short, the course takes up themes, theories and methods of contemporary research and attempts to link these to relevant and urgent issues of society and lived space.
Types of instruction: Lectures, seminars. The course comprises two or three sessions, each ranging from one to three days of seminars. Location: School of Architecture, LTH, Lund University. Course responsibility: Gunnar Sandin and Mattias Kärrholm. The running of the course can be handed over to other course leaders.
Examination formats: Written report, written assignments, seminars given by participants.
Additional requirements: Minimum of 75 % course attendance
Grading scale: Failed, pass
Examiner:
Admission requirements: Knowledge from areas relevant for architecture, planning, design, geography , environment studies, or other relevant knowledge in social science or aesthetics.
Assumed prior knowledge: Master level, or background experience of equal importance, from the above stated areas.
Apply by sending a statement of interest to resarc@arkitektur.lth.se. Deadline and dates are announced via email and via the homepage Resarc.
Course coordinators:
Web page: www.resarc.se