Dissertation detailed syllabus for Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the B.Arch students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Bachelor of Architecture 9th sem scheme and its subjects, do visit B.Arch 9th sem 2021 regulation scheme. The detailed syllabus of dissertation is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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CONTENT
Design studio emphasises on explaining and understanding architecture primarily through the mode of making. However, architecture as a field itself is driven by explicitly stated or implicitly understood ideas/ points of view of particular society and individuals. Dissertation offers an opportunity to look at architecture and built environment through phenomena, ideas, texts, intent. It involves process of observation, reflection and abstraction. Students are encouraged to choose any topic of their interest. Topics may range from analysing the works of an architect, history, typological changes, materiality, visual culture, contemporary society, cities, design process and many more. They could involve research based on primary sources in terms of doing actual field studies and/or secondary sources through reading. The dissertation proposal in about 1000 words stating the topic, issues to be explored and the scope must be submitted for approval. Work on the approved topic should start from the beginning of the semester and would be periodically reviewed. At the end of the semester, a report that is a maximum of 100 pages should be submitted in the prescribed format. The suggested structure for the report is open- it could be writing, visual, documentation, sketches or analysis based depending on the topic. However, a written structure should tie the research together with the following areas -outline/ background of the area of study, statement of objectives or research questions within the area of study, outline of methodology/way to achieve the objectives or answer the questions of research, core section with necessary content such as study/documentation (any suitable way based on the nature of topic- drawings, sketches, photos, surveys, etc.,)/analysis/ arguments, etc., final conclusion. The report will be presented in the viva-voce exam and defended.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Bjarke Ingels, ‘Yes is More’, Taschen, 2009
- Bernard Tschumi, Manhattan Transcripts, Wiley, 1994.
- Rem Koolhaas et al, ‘Project on the City II: The Harvard Guide to Shopping’, Taschen, 201.
- Charles Correa, The New Landscape: Urbanisation in the Third World, Concept Media, 199.
- Iain Borden and Kaaterina Ruedi; ‘The Dissertation: An Architecture Students Handbook’, Architectural Press, 2006.
- Linda Grant and David Wang, ‘Architectural Research Methods’, John Wiley Sons, 2013.
- Vian Ahmed, Alex Opoku, Zeeshan Aziz, Research Methodology in the Built Environment, Rutledge, 2016.
Reference Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all other subjects of Bachelor of Architecture, 2021 regulation curriculum do visit B.Arch 9th sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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