The course will be dealing with the following subjects:
- Practical research methods in the field of architecture
- Theories on architecture quality
- Quality work, examples from practice
- Architecture competitions – how to find a prize winner?
- Architecture awards – how do the jury present and motivate their choices?
- Quality in the national architectural polices in the Nordic countries
This course has three overall objectives. Firstly, the student will learn about quality issues and be able to show how quality as a key-concept is used in architecture. Secondly, the student shall develop her/his capability to describe the use of quality criteria and the professional way of judging quality in architecture projects. Thirdly, the student will through an individual work (paper) get a deeper understanding of quality issues in architecture, that are of great importance for both the profession, client and the end-user.