History of Architecture: Antiquity [ LAUCE1301 ]

The course will describe and analyze the architectural systems invented in the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern regions: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Crete, Metropolitan Greece, Rome and its Empire. A brief detour will take in Hindu and Far Eastern architectures. The course will look at domestic architecture (houses, villas, palaces), at monuments (tombs, memorials), at public buildings (from the temple to the circus), at urban arrangements and at broader landscape configurations. The course will emphasize the traditional architectural drawing views: plan, coupe, and elevation.

By the end of the course, students will be able to :Understand the meaning and the place of architectural history within the discipline of architecture, distinguish between approaches constructed by historians from those constituted by and for the discipline of architecture; Understand the history of architecture as constituted by interacting layers;Understand what may remain of "Antiquity" throughout our own cultural time;Deploy basic knowledge of the originality of the architecture of Antiquity.