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MARCH-6200-1: History of Architecture 1

Fall 2023

Subject: Graduate Architecture
Type: Seminar
Delivery Mode: In-Person
Level: Graduate

Campus: San Francisco
Course Dates: August 30, 2023 — December 12, 2023
Meetings: Wed 12:00-03:00PM, Main Bldg - 103
Instructor: Catherine Covey

Units: 3.0
Enrolled: 7/12

Description:

This course examines architecture and urbanism from the age of colonialism to the rise of industrialized society (1400-1875). The course will focus on important buildings and city forms found in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa, but also explore how ideas about architecture and city form are shaped by global economics, politics, technological development, and aesthetic theory. In addition, the course will emphasize how these architectural ideas were transmitted around the globe through contact and conflict between different nations and empires.

Pre-Requisites and Co-Requisites:

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