| The program intends to provide undergraduate and graduate
students at Georgia Tech with the opportunity to study
the art and architecture of Classical Greece and Italy.
Now in its seventeenth year, the primary academic mission
of the program is to expand the opportunities for study
of the humanities for non-architecture majors at Georgia
Tech. As an institute of technology, Georgia Tech cannot
offer the wide array of courses in the arts and in the
humanities often present at larger universities. This
program extends the Institute's ability to fill this need
by offering students in engineering, management, and the
sciences concentrated and intensive study at the buildings,
sites and museums where works by Michelangelo, Uccello,
Leonardo, Brunelleschi, and Caravaggio were originally
carried out. In addition to painting, sculpture and architecture,
attention is given to the urban context extending from
Classical antiquity through the Renaissance and late Baroque
periods. Intensive, on site studies at the Athenian Agora,
Acropolis, Delphi, Epidauros,
Olympia, Roman Forum, Pompeii, Herculanium, Ostia, Paestum,
Hadrian's Villa, Villa D'Este, Villa Giulia, The Vatican
Museum, Borghese Museum, Basilica of St. Peter, and other
sites, provide the students with a deeper understanding
and appreciation for the role that Classical Greco-Roman
civilization and Italy has played as the artistic, engineering,
and political cornerstones of the western world.
Directed by Dr. Athanassios Economou,
Professor Douglas Allen, and Dr. Mario Carpo,
students have the opportunity to study art and architecture
in Athens, Delphi, Epidauros,
Olympia in Greece, and Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum, Paestum,
Florence, Siena, Vicenza, Venice in Italy. Unlike a
classroom setting where issues such as site context
and scale are virtually absent from any discussion of
the arts, this program provides students with the opportunity
to study art and architecture within its historical
context and as a part of lived experience.
Professors
Economou, Allen and Carpo co-teach the introductory
preparatory course. Professor Economou teaches COA 3114,
Professors Allenm Economou and Carpo teach COA 3115 and Professor
Carpo teaches COA 3116. The course ARCH 4921: Special
Problems in History, Theory and Criticism (Independent
Topics) is co-directed by all three professors.
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