PHILOSOPHY AND ART - BMEGT411099

By analysing case studies and studying the theoretical literature on built environment, culture and human behaviour the subject offers an introduction to connection between these fields. The course discusses topics that are encountered by students of architecture during their studies and everyone else spending a life in built environment.

1. Knows the fundamentals of the methodology of social sciences.
2. Knows the importance of participating in debate in the context of science, education, society and media, the different levels of this relationship and their consequences.
3. Knows the broader system of her field, recognizes the relationships with related disciplines, uses the opportunities provided by the wider system and the contexts related to the system.
4. Possesses adequate and sufficient knowledge to orient herself in the various mechanisms of social decision-making.

1. Confidently uses the vocabulary and the basic scientific concepts of the profession, and the elements of the special vocabulary based on them.
2. Possesses the ability to gain a new perspective, she is able to approach science and its environment with an interdisciplinary approach.
3. In solving her professional tasks, she is able to independently analyze, evaluate, and synthesize conclusions and explanations.
4. She is able to apply a wide range of well-established techniques for the critical analysis and processing of information.
5. She is able to participate in the process of lifelong learning.
6. Identifies special professional problems with an interdisciplinary approach, explores and articulates the detailed theoretical and practical background needed to solve them.
7. Using the theories and methods learnt, she will discover facts and basic relationships, organise and analyse, draw independent conclusions, make critical observations, prepare proposals for decisions, and make decisions in routine and sometimes unfamiliar contexts, both national and international.

1. Accepts and consistently and plausibly represents the diversity of the perspectives of social sciences in the related narrower and wider environment.
2. Demonstrates and open mind to critical self-evaluation, to various forms of training, to the self-help forms of intellectual worldview. Endeavours for self-development in these areas.
3. Has problem-centric perspective and problem-solving thinking.

1. Develops a historically and politically consistent individual opinion in the narrow disciplinary niche that helps to develop self and environment.
2. Becomes autonomous, constructive and assertive both in intra- and extra-institutional forms of cooperation.
3. Becomes self-reliant in work besides being constantly critical and correcting own work.
4. Takes the responsibility in forming and justifying professional views.
5. Takes the responsibility for own analyses, conclusions and decisions.

Written and oral communication.

• Batár Attila, 2005, Láthatatlan építészet. Budapest: Ab Ovo
• Gehl, J., 2014. Élhető városok. Budapest: Terc.
• Hall, Edward T., Rejtett dimenziók. Budapest: Gondolat
• Kerékgyártó Béla (szerk.), 2004, A mérhető és a mérhetetlen. Építészeti írások a 20. századból. Budapest: Typotex
• Lynch, K., 1960. The Image of the City. Cambridge MA: MIT Press.
• Massey, Doreen – Allen, John – Pile, Steve, 1999, City Worlds. London: Routledge
• Mumford, L., 1985. A város a történelemben. Budapest: Gondolat
• A tárgyhoz kapcsolódó jegyzet és a bemutatott slide-ok.

Assessment of learning outcomes described under section 2.2.

1. Partial knowledge assessment: Complex assessment of the acquired knowledge and skills concerning knowledge production by two written exams. 2. Partial performance evaluation: one home assignment to be presented in class. 3. Knowledge assessment: at the end of the semester based on the materials from the whole semester.

• Partial knowledge assessment (test): 20
• Partial performance evaluation (homework): 40
• Partial knowledge assessment (test): 40
• total: 100

Retake of partial knowledge assessments at the end of the semester.

Consulted with the Faculty Student Representative Committee, approved by the Vice Dean for Education, valid from: 04.11.2024.

Introduction, weekly topics. Culture and architecture, Vitruvius, the education of an architect, on the beginning of culture, architecture and the three essential requirements of architecture. From shelter to city: the modern city as the environment of our life, the sociological, urbanistic and architectural definition of a city (Louis Wirth, Spiro Kostof, Baraka) Contemporary trends of city development. Globalization, global cities and megapolis, environmental problems and new technologies. (Mobility) The experience of urban environment (Attila Batár), Mental Maps (Kevin Lynch), city and memory. Humans, space and environment (Edward T. Hall), urban behaviour, the individuals and the mass, conformity and freedom (Stanley Milgram). Behaviour on public transport Public places: characteristics, geometry and use (Jan Gehl). Case study: Moricz Zsigmond Körtér. Institutions of a modern city and their buildings. The concept of consumption: Móricz and Allee School: space for learning and knowledge Private space: home and homelessness. Homes in the modern and contemporary city. Case study: Magház, Budapest. Summary of the major points, preparation for the test, presentations of term projects. End-term test.