THEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM

Task A : Synopsis

TASK:
Students are required to submit a synopsis in the form of reaction paper. The aim of this assignment is for the students to read a selected reading in relation to the theme that has been discussed in class for the week and submit a reaction paper of the text.

A reaction or response paper requires the writer to analyze a text, then develop commentary related to it. It requires thoughtful reading, research and writing. It should identify the key points highlighted in the text and then focus on your personal perspective on issues raised through the text.

Each students is to prepare and submit reaction papers as synopsis of the given reading during tutorial sessions.

LEARNING OUTCOME:
1.Describe the theoretical issues related to design through study of architecture and urbanism and its related studies

2. Relate architectural theories to contemporary architecture and urban forms

Task A : Synopsis

TASK:
Students are required to submit a synopsis in the form of reaction paper. The aim of this assignment is for the students to read a selected reading in relation to the theme that has been discussed in class for the week and submit a reaction paper of the text.

A reaction or response paper requires the writer to analyze a text, then develop commentary related to it. It requires thoughtful reading, research and writing. It should identify the key points highlighted in the text and then focus on your personal perspective on issues raised through the text.

Each students is to prepare and submit reaction papers as synopsis of the given reading during tutorial sessions.

LEARNING OUTCOME:
1.Describe the theoretical issues related to design through study of architecture and urbanism and its related studies

2. Relate architectural theories to contemporary architecture and urban forms

Task A : Synopsis

TASK:
Students are required to submit a synopsis in the form of reaction paper. The aim of this assignment is for the students to read a selected reading in relation to the theme that has been discussed in class for the week and submit a reaction paper of the text.

A reaction or response paper requires the writer to analyze a text, then develop commentary related to it. It requires thoughtful reading, research and writing. It should identify the key points highlighted in the text and then focus on your personal perspective on issues raised through the text.

Each students is to prepare and submit reaction papers as synopsis of the given reading during tutorial sessions.

LEARNING OUTCOME:
1.Describe the theoretical issues related to design through study of architecture and urbanism and its related studies

2. Relate architectural theories to contemporary architecture and urban forms

SYNOPSIS

Task B : The Image of City

TASK:
Students are required to present an in-depth and analytical research study on the designated topic. Students are to explore the image of a city based on Kevin Lynch’s most famous work, The Image of the City (1960). The project consisted of 2 parts; the first is to identify Lynch’s 5 elements; path, edges, districts, nodes and landmarks within a selected city and the second part is to produce an essay with a cognitive mapping of the city.

This project comprises of 2 parts:PART A(IDENTIFY 5 ELEMENTS) & PART B(ILLUSTRATED ESSAY WITH COGNITIVE MAPPING)

PART A:
Student is to select a city and identify the 5 elements in the city. Then, produce 5 A4 size illustrated diagrams of the city identifying the 5 elements accompanied with an introduction page of the city.

PART B:
Part b of the project requires students to create cognitive mapping of selected significant urban spaces in the city of KL to understand one’s perception and spatial behavior in cities today. Using the cognitive map students are required to present a critical understanding of emerging contemporary urbanism in KL city spaces . Then, produce 2000 words illustrated essay with 1 A3 size cognitive mapping of selected urban spaces.

LEARNING OUTCOME:
1. Analyse architecture and urban forms in relation to relevant architectural theories
2. Analyse and critique the relationship between architecture and its social, cultural and intellectual context
3. Produce, orally and in writing, a critical interpretation of architecture and urbanism in relation to relevant theories within the contemporary discourse of architecture