| CODE | BST1006 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Fortifications in Baroque Age | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | History of Architecture | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Objectives: This study unit seeks to bring forward the great importance given to the art of fortification in Baroque times, considered by many a ruthless political machine and a refined military practice. The study unit attaches great importance to contemporary attack and defence methods, presented as the ultimate Raison d'Etre of a new urban order and as the result of research carried out by such great military engineers as Alghisi, Speckle, Bar le-Duc, Sardi, Floriani, Blondel, Vauban and others. The local scenario will be discussed in detail during the course of lectures. Method of Teaching: 14 seminars of 60 min each, backed by discussions and site visits. Reading List:- Q. Hughes, Military architecture, Hants 1991. - E. Viollet-le-Duc, Military architecture, USA 1990. - S. Spiteri, Fortress of the Knights, Malta 2001 |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Stephen Spiteri |
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