Course Catalog - 2011-2012

     

ARCH 319 - ARCHITECTURE & MEMORY

Long Title: ARCHITECTURE AND MEMORY: REPRESENTATIONS OF ANCIENT IN MODERN PARADIGMS
Department: Architecture
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Why do Americans live in houses faced with pediments and columns? Why do ruins draw our interest? In what forms ancient, particularly Greek and Roman cultures are alive in arts, architecture and visual culture of the 19th and 20th centuries? This course seeks answers to these and similar questions. Cross-list: HART 319, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 519.