Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Architecture

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: CITIES AND HISTORY ***** DISTRIBUTION COURSE GROUP 1 and 2 ***** Cities conform to general historical trends, yet all cities are bound to particular geographic and cultural circumstances that make the history of each unique. In each lecture a single city will be examined in terms of its formal and geographical particulars and the consequence it has had on social and cultural history. The architecture of each city is a unique expression of a mixture of desire and habit, making it a complex cultural artifact with legions of authors and just as many interpreters. The course is organized chronologically, beginning with the ancient cities of Jerusalem, Athens, Rome & Teotihuacan, then turning to post antique centers such as Instanbul and Cairo, non-Western settings as