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Architecture History, a subdepartment of the Department of Art History, offers students an independent study programme. This programme emphasizes employment opportunities for architecture historians, who are finding it increasingly easier to acquire jobs in their particular field of study. Examples are teaching and research positions at universities and, to a greater and greater degree, well-paid free-lance work in the commercial sector. Jobs are also available in the official circuit, in museums and in the Dutch equivalent of the National Trust.
Educational programme
The educational programme for Architecture History, which is part of the new Bachelors and Masters programme (2005-2006), is organized as follows:
BACHELOR
Year 1:
Historical review of Architecture History up to and including the most recent architecture (15 ects in total)
Field trip in the Netherlands (5 ects)
Year 2:
Three thematic units devoted to:
• Architecture 1 and 2 (each 5 ects)
• Urban Design 1 and 2 (each 5 ects)
• Landscape Architecture 1 and 2 (each 5 ects)
• Methodology (5 ects)
• Minor
• Field trip in the Neherlands (5 ects)
Year 3:
• Seminar 'The disputed moral of architecture' (10 ects)
• Individual module 1 and 2 (each 5 ects)
• Work placement (10 ects)
• Minor
• Thesis (10 ects)
• Bachelor’s diploma
MASTER
Year 1:
One-year version of GENERAL MASTER Art History, with a separate program on Architecture History (Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Architecture)
Program:
The obligatory program consist of 40 ects.
The following modules are offered:
• Seminar "The disputed moral of architecture" (10 ects)
• Individual deepening 1 and 2 (topic: own choice; each 5 ects)
• Analysis of plan and design 1 and 2 (each 5 ects)
• Architectural texts 1 and 2 (each 5 ects)
• Architectural and urban planning heritage (5 ects)
• European Urbanisation, transformations 1750-2000 (5 ects)
• Thesis (20 ects)
• Free menue (20 ects)
INTERDISCIPLiNARY MASTER HERITAGE STUDIES, an educational programme that includes courses in archaeology, architecture history and historical geography. Because these experts are doing teamwork new interpretations are developed, culminating in new insights in longterm urban planning endeavors and landscaping, combinations of old and new landscape patterns.
The program:
• Literature exam (5 ects)
• Historical landscape and archeological heritage (obligatory; 5 ects)
• Architecture and urban planning heritage (obligatory; 5 ects)
• Belvedere: "Preservation through development" in town and country (obligatory; 5 ects)
• Biography of the landscape (obligatory; 5 ects)
• Heritage of monument, garden and landscape (5 ects)
• European Urbanisation, transformations 1750-2000 (obligatory; 5 ects)
• Historical geography 1 and 2 (elk 5 ects)
• Roman heritage in contemporary Europe (5 ects)
• Thesis (20ects)
RESEARCH MASTER, first year (2005-2006):
Program:
• Current Affairs (10 ects)
• Tutorials (20 ects)
• Specialisation (20 ects)
• Choice (10 ects; see General matser and Interdisciplinary Heritage Master)
Year 2:
RESEARCH MASTER, year 2 (2006-2007)
Program:
• Current Affairs (10 ects)
• Tutorials (10 ects)
• Specialisation (10 ects)
• Thesis (30 ects)
Employment
VU graduates in architecture history are employed by various branches of the Dutch National Trust (Zwolle, Amsterdam, the national headquarters), the Netherlands Architecture Institute, ARCAM (Amsterdam Architecture Centre) and new local centres for architecture (Almere, Tilburg, Hilversum). Other graduates have set up their own companies for free-lance work.
The VU’s broad approach to the discipline of architecture history (architecture, urban design and landscape architecture: unique in the Netherlands!), which focuses on projects from both past and present, offers new job opportunities, including positions in municipal services and architecture firms. An education that covers the contemporary conservation of historic buildings and an insight into matters related to national heritage (erfgoedkwesties) also prepares students for current issues. This is essential in a period in which large urban and rural areas are once more appearing on the drawing board.
For more information:
Mrs Ilse Chin, MA (Director of Studies, Art History, VU)
Website: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Tel. 31-(0)20-4446364
Email: ip.chin@let.vu.nl