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World Architecture & Urbanism I
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| Tue., 08/24 | Introduction to a History of World Architecture Class overview, syllabus & website information |
| PART ONE | ORIGINS OF ANCIENT ARCHITECTURE (40,000 - 500 BC) |
| Thur., 08/26 | Ancient Art & Architecture of Prehistoric
Europe Upper Paleolithic -to- Bronze Age, c. 40,000-8,000 BC |
| Tue., 08/31 | Cities & Civilizations in the Near East &
Asia Mesopotamian & Indus Valley Civilizations c. 8,000-2000 BC |
| Thur., 09/02 | Ancient Egyptian Architecture I Pre-dynastic -to- Middle Kingdom, c. 3150-1674 BC |
| Tue., 09/07 | Ancient Egyptian Architecture II Second Intermediate & New Kingdom, c. 1674-1069 BC |
| Thur., 09/09 | Origins of Greek Civilization & the Birth of
Naturalism Aegean/Cycladic/Minoan/Mycenaean/Geometric Periods, 2800-500 BC |
| Tue., 09/14 | Ancient Etruscan Achitecture Pre-Etruscan & Etruscan periods, c. 800-500 BC |
| PART TWO | CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE (500 BC - 500AD) |
| Thur., 09/16 | The Classical Ideal in Greek Architecture
Paestum & the Athenian Acropolis, 500-400 BC |
| Tue.,09/21 | The Hellenistic Age & the modification of the
Classical Ideal Efesus, Pergamum & Petra, c. 400-180 BC |
| Thur., 09/23 | Roman Republic & the Roman Empire The Republican periods -to- Emperor Constantine, c. 510 BC-395 AD |
| Tue., 09/28 |
Early Christian, East/West Roman Empires & Byzantine Arch.
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| Thur., 09/30 | Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Architecture The Olmec & Mayan cultures, c.1000 BC- 500 AD |
| Tue., 10/05 | Early Dynasties in Clay & Stone: Qin, Han, Maurya |
| PART THREE | RELIGION & ARCHITECTURE (500-1000 AD) |
| Thur., 10/07 | Man and the Cosmos, 500 BC - 1000 AD |
| Tue., 10/12 | Early Buddhist sites, 100 BC - 500 AD |
| Thur.,10/14 | Shrines and the Agricultual Gods, 500-1000 AD |
| Tue., 10/19 | Buddhist Architecture: The Wooden Temple, 500-1000 AD |
| Thur.,10/21 | Early Islamic Architecture, c 600-900 AD AD |
| Tue., 10/26 | Hindu Temples, 500-1000 |
| Thur.,10/28 | MID TERM EXAM (prepare from Lectures 1 - 20) |
| Tue., 11/02 | Voyages in the Pacific, 300-800 AD |
| Thur., 11/04 | European architecture of the Feudal Age I
Viking, Carolingian & Ottonian, c. 768-1041 AD |
| Tue., 11/09 | European architecture of the Feudal Age II
Early Romanesque period, c. 910-1000 AD |
| Thur., 11/11 | VETERAN'S DAY |
| PART FOUR | CONTACT, COMMUNICATION, EXCHANGE (1000-1500 AD) |
| Tue., 11/16 | Later Islamic Architecture |
| Thur., 11/18 | Fortress Cities in Asia |
| Tue., 11/23 | Temple Cities in Asia |
| Thur., 11/25 | THANKSGIVING DAY |
| Tue., 11/30 | Gothic Architecture I, c. 1150-1250 AD |
| Thur., 12/02 | Gothic Architecture II, c. 1250-1400 AD |
| Tue., 12/07 | Early Renaissance Architecture, c. 1400-1500 AD |
| Thur., 12/09 | Emergence of the Modern World, 1500 AD |
| Tue., 12/14 | FINAL EXAM |