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
Side units (not primary LMS weeks): How to Look at a Building (Ch0) and The Longevity Crisis (4.5).
Curriculum & LMS status
- Scaffold at
architecture-history· 80 teacher slides densified (~95–100 avg words/slide) - Full homework answer keys (Ch0–8) · MERGED readings · HTML re-converted
- Looking journals in grading categories
- Self-directed list: $25 standard (see SELF_DIRECTED_PRICING.md)
- Domain candidate: architecture.ajesacademy.com
“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.