MITx: A Global History of Architecture

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• History and context for significant buildings that affected our civilization.
• History of technological advancements that had a significant impact on the evolution of architecture.
• The influence of specific cultural and religious traditions on architecture.
• Climate and geographical changes throughout history have affected human culture and building.

Syllabus:

• The First Societies
• The Gravettians and the Hunting Traditions of the North
• The Holocene and the Agro-Pastoral Emergence
• Agricultural Emergence
• Stone – Between Life and Death
• Cities and Temples
• After the Cataclysm and the Rise of the Eastern Mediterranean
• Iron and the New World Order
• Persia and Greece
• India and China
• Buddhism - India and Beyond
• Americas - Shaping/Harvesting the Land
• Rome
• Roman Architecture
• Early Christian Architecture
• Christianity and the Roman East
• Early Islamic Architecture
• Early Hindu Architecture
• Borobudur, Angkor, and SE Asia
• The 13th Century - Inner Asia and Beyond
• Medieval Christian Architecture
• Italy - 13th to the 15th Century
• Colonial Transitions
• Time