ARCH 413, Section 1

This course is an introduction to architecture history by way of an in-depth examination of key developments from its ancient origins to the present day, understood in relation to formal and theoretical concerns. The purpose of the class is to situate architectural production within the framework of historical issues that underwrite current work. In this light, architecture is presented as a triangulation of timely and (seemingly) archaic topics to position contemporary work within the trajectory of continuances, inversions, and rejections that constitute architecture’s ongoing disciplinary concerns. This course is required for first-year students in the three-year Master of Architecture degree, but is open to other students as well.