Universitat Internacional de Catalunya
Critical Thinking I
Other languages of instruction: Spanish
Teaching staff
The teacher will be available to assist students who require it after each class. Personal attention outside of class hours is provided by appointment by email.
Emails:
• Miguel Carricas: macarricas@uic.es
• Ferran Caballero: fcaballero@uic.es
Introduction
The architecture is neither a physical alone art, nor a pure action. It is, fundamentally, a way of approaching the reality. It is a knowledge. In fact, the person is not alone a being for the reality, but he(she) needs the fiction. Along this course there are scanned some languages of fiction of those that the architecture informs: literature, cómic and movies(movie theater), fundamentally. One of the fundamental elements that bring us over to the fiction, sometimes, to the reality, others, is the manipulation of the space, the weather(time) and the movement. This is obtained across(through) the approach in perspective.
Pre-course requirements
- Participation in class
- Aptitude to work in team
- Availability for personal interviews
- Relation capacity with the rest of the class
- Capacity for text comments
- Availability analysis and correction of the taken notes
- Conditions for oral exhibition of a work
- The excessive dependence on Internet is penalized
Objectives
5.1. To owe and understand
To understand the reality
To know everything and your parts
Knowledge is not to have but to be
To share and to announce the truth
Study habit
To plan the work,
To programme calendar
To verify, to revise, to correct
5.2. To apply knowledge
Problems answer(solution)
To include and to annotate the threads
To be right
To multiply the working capacity and array
Competitiveness,
Problem solving
Sense of the opportunity and of the efficacy
Safety and confidence in the work
5.3. To assemble to interpret.
To judge
Set vision
To be right
To consider
To find the virtue
To share the vital decisions
Valor to discover lagoons
Sense of the prudence and of the adventurousness
To wait without extracting hasty conclusions
5.4. To communicate
Explanatory clarity
To go to the main thing without neglecting the secondary thing
To generate confidence
To speak skylight,
To be appended,
Not polemizar
To transmit the innovation and the value of the tradition
To dose the information
Quality in the briefness
5.5. To be autonomous
Worldliness
Personal ripeness
To be able to consult without losing the tiemposaber to depend on others
To be wise persons without being autosufficient(self-sufficient)
To flee of the precipitation,
To exercise control on the reality
Personal and group safety
Competences/Learning outcomes of the degree programme
THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL FRAME. DEPARTMENT EDUCATION AND SCIENCE. State Department of Universities and Investigation
1. The kernel of the targets of the new organization of the education is the competitions acquisition on the part of the students
2. It will have to do emphasis on the learning methods of the above mentioned competitions and on the procedures to evaluate them
3. The term(end) competition is used exclusively in your academic meaning, and not in your meaning of professional attribution
4. Competitions 1: combination of knowledge, skills (intellectual, manual, social, etc.), attitudes and values to solve problems or to intervene in matters.
4.1. To distinguish between the exception and the rule, the parts and everything, the periphery and the center
4.2. To increase simultaneity skills in the analysis and the synthesis before complex problems
4.3. To base the self-esteem on the self-knowledge
4.4. To discover talents. To create and to form teams. Not to become essential
4.5. To compare ideas. To recount what is learned to what is known
4.6. To discern targets. I cut, come up, long term
4.7. Proved(Turned out to be) Objetivar. To distinguish advance, achievement and success
5. Competitions 2: especificity of the acquired knowledge and your application to the grade of architecture (before every competition there is specified your numerical denomination relative to the Curriculum of the BOE):
40 to exercise the architectural criticism
48 the general theories of the form, the composition and the architectural fonts(types)
50 the methods of study of the processes of symbolization, the practical functions and the ergonomics
53 the architectural, town-planning and landscape traditions of the western culture, as well as of your technical, climatic, economic(economical), social and ideological essentials
54 the esthetics and the theory and history of the fine arts and the applied(hardworking) arts
57 the urban sociology, theory, economy and history.
66 to internalize the architectural form
67 to understand(comprise) and to analyze the architecture and the city as regards the systems of thought and the society
77 the analysis and theory of the form and the laws of the visual perception.
Learning outcomes of the subject
The kernel of the targets of the subject will have been the competitions acquisition on the part of the students it will have to have done emphasis on the learning methods of the above mentioned competitions and on the procedures to evaluate it the term(end) competition will have been used exclusively in your academic meaning, and not in your meaning of professional attribution there will be understood like valid result of the education the sense of the expression "competitions" as combination of knowledge, skills (intellectual, manual, social, etc.), attitudes and values to solve problems or to intervene in matters.
Syllabus
Languages of fiction
Unit 1: Introduction Architecture and fiction. Space, Time and Movement. Visual Narrative Strategies
Unit 2: Schuitten & Peeters and fiction. The Roman Pantheon Fictionated
Unit 3: Schuitten & Peeters and Reality. The Maison Autrique and other 'Reals'
Unit 4: Fiction, reality and sequence
Unit 5: Languages of fiction: between comic and cinema
Unit 6: The art of linear perspective
Unit 7: Photography, architectural space and fiction
Unit 8: Literary sources for fiction
Unit 9: The Graphic novel language
Unit 10: Conclusions
Teaching and learning activities
In person
Theoretical lectures
Writing of scripts for comic pages
Cinema based in comic visualisation
Quiz shows syllabys concerning
Oral presentations by students
Evaluation systems and criteria
In person
70% final exam 1 exercise of 1 A4 extension (5 points) + comentary to 2 images (1 A4 side) (2,5+2,5 puntos). Total, 120 minutos, 10 puntos
30% attendance and involvement in lectures.
Bibliography and resources
1. Primary sources
- Borges, J. L. Ficciones
- Aristóteles, Poética
- Calvino, I., Las ciudades invisibles
- Eco, U., El nombre de la rosa
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AA.VV., Cairo: Especial Arquitectura. Norma Editorial. Barcelona, 1985
AA.VV., Ciutat i còmic. ( Catálogo de exposición ). C.C.C.B. Barcelona, 1998.
AA.VV., Ciutat i cómic. Ciudad y cómic, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, 1998
AA.VV., Dossier: Banlieus ‘89, in “Urbanisme & Architecture” n.205, Dec./Jan. 1984-85
AA.VV., I fumetti e la Città. Le città e il Fumetto, numero monografico di “Schizzo. Idee e immagini” n.13, Associazione Centro Fumetto “A. Pazienza”, Cremona, Maggio 2003
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AA.VV., L’image du monument a travers les arts mineurs, in “Monuments Historiques” n.132, Avr./Mai 1984
AA.VV., Le monde des villes, in “(A Suivre)” n.193, Fév. 1994
AA.VV., Schuiten & Peeters. Autour des Cités Obscures, Mosquito, 1994
AA.VV., ZOOM Archigram, in AA.VV., A Guide to Archigram 1961-74, Academy Editions, London, 1994
ALBERGHINI, Andrea, Sequenze urbane. La metropoli nel fumetto, Delta Comics, Rovigo, 2006
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