| CODE | BEN1004 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Landmarks of Cultural Development | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Visual Arts | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit consists of fourteen two-hour seminars organized around visual presentations of landmark topics in the history of the cultural development of mankind. The material presented to the students is intended provide a platform for an innovative and interactive teaching and learning exercise based on a series of multimedia visual stimulations intended to provoke a wide-spectrum discussion that students will enjoy, hinged on the following specific themes and intended to also serve as an introduction to more specific studies in architectural history and theory in the first two years of the bachelorship course. - Timelines of Cultural Achievement 1 - From the cave to the metropolis - Timelines of Cultural Achievement 2 - Artifacts in the Louvre - Imhotep's invention - The genius of Euclid, Ictinus and Pheidias - Imperial Rome revisited - Intimidation versus Inspiration in Mediaeval Europe - Leonardo da Vinci - Renaissance visions and utopias - The celebration of the Baroque - Versailles - The age of Revolutions - Walter Gropius and the dawn of the Modern Movement - Contemporary ideas and expressions - Futuropolis |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Claude Busuttil |
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