Renaissance Architecture

3-0-9 units. HASS-A · Undergraduate

Explores the architecture of Renaissance Europe (ca. 1400¿1600), a period often seen as marking the dawn of the modern age. Key themes include architecture's engagement with the classical past; its role in materializing both public power as well as private wealth and status; and the emergence or reinvention of building types such as palaces, marketplaces, banks, laboratories, hospitals, and government offices. Also considers the rise of urban, regional, and environmental planning, as well as the formation of architecture as a distinct profession in this period, alongside the development of a suite of tools ¿ including drawings and models ¿ that have shaped the discipline to this day. Additional work is required of students taking the graduate version.