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Architecture History & Appreciation

From sacred stones to the modern skyline

$25 per student · one-time · classroom $49 + $20/student

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Plate S·III. Architecture History & Appreciation.

What your student will be able to do

  • Students keep a looking journal — training attention the way a historian trains it on a text.

Reading buildings and cities from sacred stones to the modern skyline — how structures are made and what the spaces we inhabit form in us. Pairs with Art and Music: pantheon and Parthenon alongside chant and polyphony.

“We call them primitive; their buildings call us temporary.” The course treats architecture as moral formation — the spaces we build shape the people we become.

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Contents

8-week survey

  1. 01Building Before Buildings
  2. 02Medieval Cathedral
  3. 03Renaissance and Baroque
  4. 04Neoclassicism
  5. 05Birth of Modern
  6. 06High Modernism
  7. 07Postmodernism
  8. 08Architecture Now
Students keep a looking journal — training attention the way a historian trains it on a text.

Who teaches

Written by Troy Williams · Kellogg MBA · McKinsey · Ameriprise Financial

Read about Troy and Katie.

Pricing

Family

$25 per student

Classroom

$49 base + $20 / student

Nothing auto-renews.

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Nothing auto-renews. $25 per student, one-time.

Architecture History & Appreciation

From sacred stones to the modern skyline

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