Dynamic ideas and new building materials have shaped architectural forms throughout the world. The course looks back over the last two hundred years to about 1970 and traces the influences at work in contemporary architecture and on its leading architects in order to identify the various styles that have emerged. By identifying and understanding these influences and theories, students will be able to make sense of the urban chaos round about us and to appreciate the motives of architects. The course includes three outside visits, some of which may be at weekends, to visit important groups of relevant buildings.
Dates: Autumn 2011
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Monday 3 October: 19th century engineers
Monday 10 October: Pioneers of Modern Architecture
*Saturday 15 October: visit to Kew
Monday 17 October: Heroic Schools and Movements
Monday 31 October: le Corbusier
*Saturday 5 November: visit to Hampstead
Monday 14 November: 1930s
Monday 21 November: 1940s/50s
Monday 28 November: 1960s
*Monday 5 December: visit to the South Bank (plus end-of-term dinner)
Events in italics are outside visits
Bibliography
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The Architecture of London by Jones and Woodward [Weidenfeld and Nicolson]
Modern Architecture - Critical History by Kenneth Frampton [Thames and Hudson]
Pioneers of Modern Design by Nicholas Pevsner [Penguin]
Bookshops
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The Architectural Association School Bookshop - 36 Bedford Square, WC1 [10-6,30 m-f; 11-5 s]
The RIBA bookshop - 66 Portland Place, W1 [9.30-5.30 m-f; -6.30 t; 10-5 s]
Course Information
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Course Fee: £130 (Concessions £110 - contact Tim)
Course tutor: Tim Bruce-Dick (MAhons AAdipl RIBA)
Start date: Monday 3 October 2011
Class Time: 6.30pm - 8.30pm
Course structure: 7 weekly classes and 3 outside visits
Location: Lecture Room, at the offices of Price & Myers, 30 Newman St, London, W1T 1LT
Nearest Tube stations: Goodge Street [5 mins], Tottenham Court Road [7mins]
To enrol: please contact Tim
Payment: you may pay by cash or by cheque made payable to Tim Bruce-Dick
Please then send it to 114 Albert Street, London NW1 7NE or at the first meeting in person.
Please note: these are essentially the same courses Tim Bruce-Dick taught at City University over the past few years. Unfortunately, owing to the withdrawal of Government funding, City University is no longer able to host these courses; hence the new arrangements. The venue is now to be, by kind permission, the Lecture Room, at the offices of Price & Myers, Consulting Engineers, 30 Newman Street, London W1T 1LT.
