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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to ideas, approaches and practical applications of architectural history. Through a combination of in-class lectures, discussions, guest speakers, and numerous site visits and tours, students learn about the wide-ranging nature of the field. Students explore different ways of reading the built environment through firsthand observation and the use of historical documents. Emphasis is placed on practical skills and an understanding of broad historical frameworks. Prerequisites: ARTH 100, ENGL 123.
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Beginning with the basis of modern architectural theory extending back to the mid-18th century, this course traces the progress of theory and design through the end of the 19th century. The phases of historicism are examined in detail, with added attention to urban planning and technological advances in architecture. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This lecture course surveys and explores 20th-century architecture, urbanism and architectural theory principally in Europe and North America. Attention will be given to the concept of modernity in an increasingly industrial, commercial, secular and international world as embodied both in acknowledged modernist masterpieces and in alternatives to mainstream modernism. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys the architecture and urbanism of China, Japan, Africa, India, the Muslim world, the South Pacific and the native cultures of the Americas from prehistory to the present. A comparative approach is used to illustrate how different cultural, religious and philosophical values and goals greatly affect built form. Emphasis is placed on the social and historical context of the sites discussed, and special attention is paid to vernacular traditions. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course is intended primarily for students for whom documenting the built environment is a valuable skill. A wide range of lectures, discussions, workshops, fieldwork and assignments explores documentation of buildings and structures from historical, theoretical, aesthetic and practical points of view. Prerequisite: ARLH 150.
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3.00 Credits
Architecture aims at the eternal, said Sir Christopher Wren. Renaissance architects pursued this goal through the vehicle of an ancient and uncannily compelling language of architecture known as the classical. This course examines the development of that language in buildings, designs, city plans and architectural theories from 15th-century Florence to 18th-century England. The social, political, and religious contexts of Renaissance and Baroque architecture are given special consideration. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines cities, the theaters in which history performs. The processes of building and rebuilding leave behind countless layers of evidence. Reading urban form is a key to understanding the real meaning of places. This course offers a hands-on exploration of transformations and continuities in urban design over two millennia from some of the richest examples in the world. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course examines North American architecture and urbanism from Colonial times to the present. Themes include domesticity, technology, commerce, politics, religion and institutional form. Special attention is given to such issues as the transmission and transformation of European influences, the development of regional patterns, and the emergence of uniquely American architectural and urban forms. Directed research is a significant part of the course. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys urban form from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the controversies over contemporary urbanism, as well as analyzes ideal cities. Architecture, public space, city planning and public works are considered in relation to the social, political, economic and religious context of the city. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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3.00 Credits
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Alhambra, Versailles, Monticello and Falling Water are all products of a restless longing for a peaceful and contemplative life in the country, where art and nature coexist in ideal harmony. This course explores the architectural and social history of country houses, villas and gardens from antiquity to the 21st century. Special attention is given to garden literature, landscape theory, the rise of public parks and the development of suburbia. Prerequisites: ARTH 110, ENGL 123.
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