Understanding Architecture

Introduces a range of approaches to understanding architecture in an historical perspective. Learn how architects and others have imagined buildings, landscapes, and cities in relation to politics, society, nature, history, and technology, focused upon European and American architecture from 1400 to the present. Effective Fall 2018, this course fulfills a single unit in each of the following BU Hub areas: Aesthetic Exploration, Historical Consciousness, Research and Information Literacy.