Course Description
Architecture from ancient times to the present. Emphasizes the relationship between architecture and culture, aesthetics, and the environment.
Athena Title
History Built Environ II Arch
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in LAND 2520E
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 archtitecture The tall building in America The detached American house and Frank Lloyd Wright Twentieth-century Modernism in architecture Post-modern architecture
General Education Core
CORE IV: World Languages and Global CultureSyllabus