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Facultatea de Arhitectură

IT-7 Architecture - Housing - City

The Faculty of Architecture / Architecture
2nd Year, sem 2, 2025-2026 | Compulsory Course | Hours/Week: 1C+1L | ECTS Credits: 3
Fișa disciplinei:
FA-A IT-7 Arhitectura - locuire - oras.pdf
Department:
History & Theory of Architecture and Heritage Conservation
Course Leader:
lect.lect. dr. arh. Toader Popescu
Teaching language:
Romanian
Learning outcomes:
- Acquisition of general knowledge regarding housing, understood from a diachronic perspective, as a function shaping contemporary urbanity.
- Understanding the critical issues at the boundary between residential architecture and the city, as well as between the evolution of urban housing and the evolution of the city itself.
- Clarifying how the concept of modern housing was shaped (as a political, urbanistic, and architectural issue).
- Identifying the specific problems of housing in Romania and fostering students’ awareness and sensitivity toward them.
Content:
The course comprises 8 lectures and 6 seminar sessions (practical work), which will be conducted in a complementary manner, according to the schedule.

The central concept of the course is dwelling, defined as a lived human experience and as the essential purpose/function of the house and the city. Dwelling is examined from an architectural and urban planning perspective (supported by complementary approaches: anthropological, phenomenological, sociological, political, etc.). Through lectures and seminars, the course aims to:

1. explore the critical issues at the boundary between residential architecture and the city, and between the evolution of urban dwelling and the evolution of the city;
2. explain how the concept of modern housing was shaped as an urbanistic, architectural, and political issue;
3. identify the specific problems of housing in Romania.

The seminars will deepen the concepts related to dwelling introduced in the lectures, through presentations and exercises carried out during the allocated class time or, where appropriate, through individual study between seminar sessions.
Teaching Method:
Lectures / slides / guests
Seminars: site visits, collective debate, individual and group work, final work
Assessment:
practical work (seminars) 50% (condition for promoting minimum 5)
exam 50%