History of Architecture II (ARCH301)
Offered By:
Engineering and Materials Science Faculty
Description
The course aims at clarifying the relationship between social, economic and religious influences on architecture, exploring both the technical and metaphorical aspects of buildings in different ages: early Christian and Byzantine, Middle Ages through the Romanic and Gothic styles, Renaissance and Baroque in Italy and abroad.
The course focuses particularly on Cairo’s early Islamic architecture, as well as Ayyubid and Abbasid periods with an emphasis on selected monuments of the city from the Tulunid, Fatimid, Mamluk and Ottoman periods. Examples of religious and secular architecture are studied in field trips.
This course includes intensive work, in the form of a compact seminar in smaller groups, to focus on a particular historic era or building.