Urban Architecture: Contemporary stories in an Ancient City

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Is it possible for a student to understand the complexity of the Mediterranean metropolis within a single semester? Can the variety of public spaces in Athens be fathomed? What phenomena define these architectural and social spaces? How can experiences in the city be rooted? Is there a methodology to help us reach a deep understanding about any city in the world? In this course, we will address these and other questions to try to reveal the structure of urban and social spaces and phenomena in Athens. We will investigate this Mediterranean capital as a city evolving through time, bringing together historic and contemporary architecture, as well as spaces of the communal, public and private realms.