Wolaita Sodo University

Collage of Engineering
Architecture Department
Degree Program(s) B.Sc. in Architecture Academic year 2019/20

Course Number Arch4302 ECTS-4

Course name Architectural Heritage Year -IV

Pre-requisite None v Semester I

Course instructor; Biniam Sh.

Course weight Lectures Tutorials & Laboratory & Home Total

(per semester ) Seminars Workshop Study Working
32 32 - 48 112

Course Objectives & Competences to be Acquired

A building heritage simply refers to a building/s /Historical Architectural Products/ having

value that have been registered by national and international agencies as being of
national and international importance to the history of that nation and even the world.
And based on this idea, the two courses can be fused together in such a way that part
of it introduces students to the theories of heritage in general /at international scale/
and the broad range of historical sites of the world and Ethiopia. so that the course
provides students with an overview of different conventions and practices derived from
those theories. And part of it introduces students about local heritage sites in detail and
their valuation in terms of national and World Heritage

Course Description/Course Contents

 Evolution of the concept of heritage

 Heritage definitions

 Conventions and Charters

 Cultural and natural heritage

 Mobile and immobile heritage

 Tangible and intangible heritage

 Cultural landscapes heritage

  World Heritage Sites:

 Procedures of application, nomination, operation, and avoiding interest of

conflicts of nomination format

 National Heritage Sites:

 Procedures of application, nomination, operation, and avoiding interest of

conflicts Nomination Formats

 History of Architectural Heritage in Ethiopian Historical buildings - from Yeha

to Addis Ababa, from Addis Ababa beyond Historical ensembles - from
Axumite settlements to contemporary cities Vernacular Architecture

Basic teaching materials and reference

 Guide for Cultural Heritage and Local Development for African

 Local Governments.pdf

 Heritage case studies-Scotland-Battlefields as heritage sites.pdf

 ICCROM_ICS05_Legal Framework Africa the protection of

 immovable cultural heritage.pdf

 Inventory of the historic city of Ṣanʿāʾ.pdf

 J.Mark Schuster-Preserving the Built Heritage - Tools for

 Implem cfcdxentation.pdf

 The Athens Charter.pdf

 The ICOMOS Charters.pdf

 David W Phillipson, Foundations of an African Civilization,

 Aksum and the Northern Horn 1000BC – AD 1300

 Giorghis, Fasil and Gérard, Denis

Assessment/Evaluation & Grading System

Attendance 10% , Assignments Project 30% Final-exam 40% Presentations 20%