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ADVANCED HISTORY COURSE LISTING
Academic Year 2009-2010
Courses that fulfill the advanced history elective requirement for MArch I students.
FALL 2009
GSD courses...
Please refer to the GSD Course Bulletin for course descriptions:
3434: Architecture and Art: From Minimalism to Neuro-phenomenology
Sanford Kwinter
4105: Studies of the Built North American Environment: 1580 to the Present
John R. Stilgoe
4109: History of Landscape Architecture I
Dorothee Imbert
4130: Scale: City, Object, Field
Eve Blau
4304: North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
John R. Stilgoe
4329: Urbanization in the East Asian Region
Peter G. Rowe
4353: Imagining the City: Literature, Film, and the Arts
Giuliana Bruno
4358: Authority and Invention: Art and Architecture in Western Europe, 950-1250
Christine Smith
4405: Modern Architecture and National Identity: Ottoman/Turkish Case in Global Context
Sibel Bozdogan
4423: The Shapes of Utopia
Erika Naginski
4424: Fifteen Things (a secret history of Italian design)
Jeffrey Schnapp
4501: Proseminar in History, Theory and Urban Design
K. Michael Hays, Timothy Hyde
5101: Histories and Theories of Urban Interventions
Susan Fainstein
FAS courses...
Please refer to the FAS Course Bulletin for course descriptions:
History of Art and Architecture 222m. Architecture in the Early Modern Mediterranean World: A Cross-Culteral Perspective
Gülru Necipoglu-Kafadar, Alina A. Payne
MIT courses...
Please refer to the MIT Architecture Class Listing for course descriptions:
MIT4.607: Thinking About Architecture: In History and At Present
Jarzombek
MIT4.614: Religious Architecture and Islamic Cultures
Nasser Rabbat
(Fulfills non-Western requirement)
MIT4.621: Orientalism and Representation
Nasser Rabbat
MIT4.623: Mughal Landscapes: History, Heritage and Design
Wescoat
MIT4.645: Selected Topics in Architecture - 1750 to the Present
Dutta
MIT4.662: Advanced Study in the History of urban Form
Friedman
MIT4.693: Special Studies in the History, Theory and Criticism of Art - Ornament: The Rococo and After
Smentek
SPRING 2009
GSD courses...
3211: Behind Today's Architectural Trends
Rafael Moneo
3305: The Architectural Imaginary: Experimental Architecture of the 1970s
K. Michael Hays
3428: Digital Culture: Architecture and Cities
Antoine Picon
4303: Modernization in the Visual United States Environment, 1890-2035
John R. Stilgoe
4305: Adventure and Fantasy Simulation, 1871-2036: Seminar
John R. Stilgoe
4317: History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1700 to the present
Mark Laird
4321: Rome and St. Peter's
Christine Smith
4344: Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Peter G. Rowe
(Fulfills non-Western requirement)
4347: The Ecological Tradition: The Body and/in the City
Alison Hirsch
4348: Rethinking Suburban History
Margaret Crawford
4409: Paris and the Idea of the Modern City
Neil Levine, Antoine Picon
4419: Hub of the Universe: Boston in the Guilded Age
Christine Smith
4421: Versailles to the Visionaries
Erika Naginski
4422: The Piranesi Effect
Erika Naginski
4442: The History of Horticulture in Landscape Architecture
Mark Laird
FAS courses...
Please refer to the FAS Course Bulletin for course descriptions:
History of Art and Architecture 1. Landmarks of World Art & Architecture
Neil Levine
History of Art and Architecture 12m. Monuments and Cities of the Islamic World: An Introduction
David J. Roxburgh
(Fulfills non-Western requirement)
History of Art and Architecture 170g. The Grid
Neil Levine
History of Art and Architecture 194e. World Fairs: Art and Exposition
Suzanne P. Blier
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