YEARBOOK 2016 - 2017 | XJTLU DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
The fourth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2016 - 2017. The yearbook exemplifies the new model for Chinese architectural education for which the department was commended by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It is thus also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students in taking first steps to successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
The fourth edition of the yearbook of the Department of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University presents student works created during the academic year 2016 - 2017. The yearbook exemplifies the new model for Chinese architectural education for which the department was commended by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). It is thus also a showcase of the creative culture that has guided our students in taking first steps to successful international careers as responsible and creative architectural designers. XJTLU offers RIBA Part 1, 2 and 3.
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ARC407<br />
Architectural Theory and Criticism<br />
<strong>2016</strong>-<strong>2017</strong> <strong>YEARBOOK</strong> Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University Department of Architecture 西 交 利 物 浦 大 学 建 筑 系<br />
A walk in the park, <strong>2016</strong>.<br />
Photograph by Tordis Berstrand.<br />
Level 4<br />
( Year 1 | Semester 1 )<br />
Module Credits<br />
5<br />
Module Leader<br />
Tordis Berstrand<br />
Contributors<br />
Yiping Dong<br />
Irene Chiotis (LC)<br />
Jessie Cannady (LC)<br />
Number of Students<br />
11<br />
( 9 ARC students + 2 UPD students )<br />
The module introduces central themes in architectural theory<br />
and criticism informed by current debates within and beyond the<br />
discipline. Framed as challenges confronting contemporary society on<br />
a global scale, these are issues of the present that call upon architects<br />
to respond and act. If this is not simply a call to built and make, it is<br />
an invitation to think, again, about the critical potential of built and<br />
imagined environments.<br />
With an eye to the global and Asian context of <strong>XJTLU</strong>, the module<br />
pursues the intersection of architectural thinking and practice as a<br />
space where students come to critically examine their own work. They<br />
do so for the purpose of positioning themselves as future architects, yet<br />
also to strengthen the ability to articulate a theoretical argument as an<br />
integral part of this architect’s task. As a means through which thinking<br />
and making can be bridged, writing is at the centre of activities<br />
whereby it becomes a site for architecture to emerge.<br />
Students reflect on a series of reading assignments in weekly<br />
coursework submitted for grading and eventually marking in revised<br />
form. In-class discussions, exercises, and presentations build up<br />
the skills required for the final essay submission, a draft of which<br />
is submitted and graded halfway through the semester. Academic<br />
standards are observed across all submitted work, and language<br />
teachers from the university’s Writing Center contribute regularly with<br />
lectures and tutorials. A final Folio submission concludes the module<br />
by compiling all material produced as a statement of the individual<br />
student’s achievement and learning.<br />
Level 04 – Year 1<br />
M Arch Des Programme
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