Aims: To provide a summary of key architectural movements from ancient to early modern periods, alongside an overview of the historical, social, urban and technological developments that influenced the production of built structures.
Learning Outcomes:
The students will be able to demonstrate an awareness of the outline development of western architecture; a basic knowledge of a number of key buildings (including names, dates and definitions), and of their historical significance, and will be equipped with the tools and vocabulary of elementary architectural appreciation, which they should be able to express via writing in combination with annotated sketches and notes.
Skills:
Sketching, note-taking, assimilation of historical data, historical understanding.
Content:
A series of chronologically arranged lectures present key periods and movements relating to the development of architecture. Significant architectural monuments are described with reference to their cultural and physical context, and with emphasis on vocabulary, the characteristics and the type of construction that typify the movement and style to which they belong. This unit begins with antiquity and runs down to the end of the 19th Century.
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