Global Foundations of Design

This subject will survey the history of architecture and urbanism from the beginnings of shelter to the Enlightenment and mid-nineteenth century in the context of social, cultural, political, technical and environmental settings. It will include architecture, designed landscapes and design traditions from early civilisations to colonial sites in Oceania and the Pacific, the Middle East, Europe, South Asia, East Asia and South America. It will survey and analyse values reflected in vernacular buildings, urban landscapes, and institutions of power and belief, and address innovations in spatial organisation, construction technology and design composition, and the importance of theory and ideas in representations of architecture, landscape and urbanism.

探索全球设计理念与实践的理论基础。

• 1Describe and discuss in broad terms the history of architecture and urbanism from ancient origins to the mid-nineteenth century;
• 2Identify, describe and discuss buildings, sites and places in terms of their context, form, spatial grammar, structural approaches, function and social role;
• 3Analyse and appraise fundamental concepts relating to spatial patterns, construction, theory and representation useful in the analysis of architecture, designed landscapes and urbanism;
• 4Employ written, verbal and drawn media to communicate knowledge and understanding of historic architecture, urbanism and landscape design applying appropriate terminology;
• 5Research, structure, write and cite an essay, report and bibliography to undergraduate standard to academic, professional and general audiences.