Course Description
Architecture from ancient times to the present. Emphasizes the relationship between architecture and culture, aesthetics, and the environment.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
For graduate students, there are additional readings and two
additional research papers based on projects that are used in
class.
Athena Title
History of World Architecture
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in HIPR 4560E or HIPR 6560E
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
Knowledge: a. identify movements and persons prominent in the development of design of the built environment and their major contributions to the development of the profession of architecture; b. identify significant works of contributors within specified time frames; c. describe and compare various styles or historic periods of design activity and the guiding concepts or design principles that characterized them; d. identify the physical resource conditions and the social, cultural and economic conditions that shaped the designs; e. define various concepts, principles, techniques or features constituting an introductory vocabulary for design.
Topical Outline
Introduction Ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian architecture Greek temples and other buildings Roman architecture and construction Chinese architecture Indian architecture Medieval architecture The architecture of Brunelleschi, Alberti, Bramante, and Palladio Mannerist and Baroque architecture French Renaissance and Baroque architecture and urban forms French and English Neoclassical architecture The Gothic Revival and 19th century architectural theory Technological developments in architecture The tall building in America The detached American house and Frank Lloyd Wright Twentieth-century Modernism in architecture Post-modern architecture
Syllabus