Architectural Humanities 01

Description

This course offers a broad, global, and expanded introduction to the history and theory of architecture by studying the reciprocal relationship between architecture, landscapes, the built environment and society. The course introduces histories of the creation and habitation of the built environment placed in a global perspective through a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural approach. The course seeks to establish that, throughout history as well as today, architecture and landscapes are socially, culturally, and politically contextualised thus relating to wider issues connected to society, political economy, and climate breakdown. Through this contextualisation, architecture raises questions about resources, land, economics, labour, policy, infrastructure, and, especially when taking a global approach, about locality, exchange, and adaptability. Responses to such questions are manifest in aesthetic and symbolic references, typologies, use, materiality, meaning, structure, layout, economy, and form. Teaching methods: Lectures, Seminars, Independent Study Assessment: Course work, Project/ portfolio