ARCH 618 Hist&Theory of Arch & Int. Arch II
The second in a series of three interrelated courses, this course examines the theoretical motivations underpinning the design of the built environment from the fifteenth to the beginning of the twentieth centuries through artifacts and surviving records (texts, drawings, models, artworks, films, machines, and buildings) at every scale from objects, implements and furnishings to interiors, buildings, and urban form. With examples from pre-modern and modern civilizations from around the world, including indigenous cultures, students will understand how cultural, philosophical, political, and religious traditions influenced the significance of meaning through the organization of industrialized supply chains, the rise and fall of powerful ideologies, the creation of interior and exterior spaces, and the development of aesthetic systems.