Vernacular architecture is not just the architecture of the everyday, or architecture made out of alternative materials, it is often the foundation of some of the most famous world monuments.  This course will give students the opportunity to examine domestic architecture, gardens, urban centers, and landscape ecologies.  Whether we explore the cave or the cosmos as architecture, our mode of inquiry will be a global historical approach.  In spaces of non-biological social reproduction monastic, intangible, ephemeral, multisensory, organic, and changing, impermanence and eternity will offer us new ways of looking at the history of architecture. This course will provide the chance to look at the moments “before”, aka before colonization, before monotheism, before the inquisition, and allow us to understand the present and future in new ways.  It is not a form of nostalgia, but a deep dive into the past in cathartic visual study with transformative potential

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