Architectural Histories 1

3 credits · Undergraduate

From prehistory to the 1500s, this course explores pre-modern formations and transformations of settlements, buildings, and landscapes through an environmental lens. With a comparative analysis of global examples, it traces how water, cosmos, animal and vegetal worlds, geology, and climatic systems have influenced patterns of land use, habitation, and material culture. This cultivates critical perspectives on architecture’s entanglement with environmental dynamics and planetary processes. RESTRICTIONS: Restricted to students in third year or above; or permission of instructor FORMATS: Lecture | Seminar