Architecture Criticism & Theories
About Course
Assignments:
- Annotated Bibliography
- Book review
- Architecture topics
- Cellular architecture
- Clustering of buildings
- Conservation in architecture & planning
- Environmental architecture
- Fire safety & Emergency guidelines
- Industrialization of building
- Intelligent Buildings
- Low-cost housing
- Nuclear architecture
- Research & Academic facilities
- Retails facilities
- Sculpture Buildings
- Sustainable Architecture
- System Buildings
- Touristic facilities
- Transportation facilities
- Vernacular Architecture
- Architecture schools (Brutalism-Cubism-Formalism-Functionalism-Muscular-Spiritual)
- Architects (Norman Foster-Richard Rogers – Snohetta – Zaha Hadid,….)
- Building type criticism (Administrative buildings – airports – Cultural Buildings – Educational buildings – hotel and motels- houses – Industrial parks -Mosques – museums -olympic villages and stadiums -Religious buildings – urban centers)
- Comparative analysis(Libraries -museums -airports)
- Faculty of Engineering criticism
- End of term paperAuditoriums – Bedroom Wards -Building systems- Circulation in buildings – Clean & Dry Circulations -Clustering of buildings – Comparative Criticism -Conservation in architecture -Criticism of courts,Patios and Atria -Educational buildings (Bauhaus) – Educational buildings (Harvard) -Educational buildings (LE Corbusier) – Emergency Department -Exhibitions – Gateways and door ways – Insurance and Liability -Intersections- Laboratories Malls/Retail spaces -Modulation Architecture -Parking Garages -Physiotherapy Areas -Bahaa Plazas & squares L-Projection Rooms Radiology – Reception Halls – Safety & security Sara- Sculpture Buildings -Signage – Single Buildings (Boston City Hall) (London City Hall) –
Skylines -Sports Facilities y- Terrace, Balcony, Loggia, Verandah -Toilets -Towers N- Universal Spaces