Course Schedule and Catalog

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. For each lecture, Graduate Students will be assigned additional readings. They will write an annotated bibliography of all these readings to be turned in at the end of the semester. We will meet for an additional every two or three weeks to discuss interpretive and methodological problems and ideas associated with the readings. Graduate Students will be expected to complete all the requirements of the class in addition to writing a substantial research paper due at the end of the semester. Cross-list: HART 519, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: ARCH 319.