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.
8-week survey
- Building Before Buildings
- Medieval Cathedral
- Renaissance and Baroque
- Neoclassicism
- Birth of Modern
- High Modernism
- Postmodernism
- Architecture Now
Students keep a looking journal — training attention the way a historian trains it on a text.
“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.