History of Oxford Architecture and Colleges

History of Oxford Colleges and Architecture

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This lesson contains 18 slides, with interactive quizzes, text slides and 3 videos.

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History of Oxford Colleges and Architecture

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Contents
  • Architecture introduction
  • Architecture Exercise 
  • Introduction to the lesson  
  • History of the College
  • Follow up/ Homework

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Learning Objectives
- The pupil will use the information as inspiration for their study trip assignment: build your own college.
- The pupil knows the different aspects of Historical architectural designs and modern architectural designs and knows how to differentiate those two.
- The pupil knows the importance of the different architectural types and apply these for their own assignment: Build your college.

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How old do you think the Architectures of Oxford University buildings are?

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History of the Architecture
- Its origins lie in the late Saxon period and its original street pattern still survives along with some of its earliest monuments. 
-It contains one of the best preserved groups of medieval and later university buildings in the world and a wealth of architectural gems from the classical to the modern.

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Architecture Exercise
In this exercise, you need to choose and answer questions about the architecture. 

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What is the Medieval period? (from what century to what century)

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What century was this building built? 

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How many years do these these two architecture designs have?

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How many years do these these two architecture designs have?

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Inspiration for Assignment: Build your own college
In this video you will watch a short video about the architectural designs and story/history behind it. 
This will serve as an inspiration of what you need to do for the Build your own college assignment. 

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Slide 12 - Video

What is a College?

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History of Oxford Colleges
As the oldest university in the English-speaking world, Oxford is a unique and historic institution. There is no clear date of foundation, but teaching existed at Oxford in some form in 1096 and developed rapidly from 1167, when Henry II banned English students from attending the University of Paris.

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The End
Follow up: 
Start thinking about your own College building => Make a vision board

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Assignment: Build your own college
The following characteristics need to be in your vision board: 
- The story: what is the his history  about your college
- What type of department would your college be? 
- The name of your college building: give a short history on why it was given the name
- How does your college look like? What architectural designs and significance will your building have? 

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