Experiencing Architecture

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

The course provides a general outline to architecture. The aim is to introduce architecture as a cultural phenomenon. The course will increase the student's awareness of the built environment as it exists all around. It examines a variety of spatial experiences encountered in exemplary places and buildings. The scope of the course is not limited to buildings alone, but includes cities and landscapes as extensions of architecture. The course introduces a range of topics, including the historical, symbolic, aesthetic, functional, cultural and green aspects of architecture.