Arch 4151

History of Urban Form

This course provides an introduction to the city as a collective work of architecture. The city is considered to be the architectural manifestation of a political association, distinct from aggregate domestic or pre-political settlements. To that end, this course seeks to build an awareness of the relationship between diverse cultures and the collective representations of institutions, including the implications of political and economic policies on the development of the city over time, and to develop a fundamental understanding of the theories and principles involved in the making of urban form. The course is organized chronologically from the point of view of the American city at the beginning of the twenty-first century. As such, emphasis is placed upon those ideas and artifacts having the greatest influence on current architectural thought and practice, with a critical view to the open question of the role of architecture in the future of the city.

Arch 6152

Studies in Landscape Architecture

This course centers on the interrelated subjects of architecture, gardens, landscape, and nature. It is organized both thematically and chronologically. Emphasis is placed on the history of the garden as a work of art and on the relationships between conceptions of order in western thought and the man-made landscape. Its purpose is to place the subjects of garden and landscape within the larger discipline of architecture and to examine the emergence of landscape architecture as a distinct profession within the discipline. Upon completions of this course, a student should be able to understand the relationships between and among specific ecological and site contexts and the design of cultural artifacts over time. A working knowledge of architectural history is assumed.