Texture Analysis: Film, Fashion, and Material Culture: Seminar
Giuliana Bruno
Film and fashion are most powerful image-makers. They are prime agents of visual expression and…
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Modern Architecture and Urbanism in China
Peter Rowe
Modernizing influences, largely from the hands of foreign powers, first forcefully entered into China and…
Developing Worlds: Planning and Design in the Middle East and Latin America After WWII
A. Hashim Sarkis
The course examines the impact of different models of social and economic development on architectural…
Landscape and/in the City: The Case of Switzerland
Dorothee Imbert
This seminar examines the relationship of landscape and city in Switzerland as a framework for…
Digital Culture, Space and Society
Antoine Picon
Computer and networks like the Internet have transformed our perception of space. They are also…
Urbanization in the East Asian Region
Peter Rowe
The purpose of this seminar is to provide an overall account of the urbanization in…
Constructing Vision
A. Hashim Sarkis
The course examines how designers have used means of representation not only to represent their…
Of Rocks, Trails and Televisions: The Democratic Monument in America
Richard Sommer
The technological transformations of modernity, from electricity to digital communication, have valorized progress over tradition…
History of Modern Gardens and Public Landscapes: 1800 to the present
Mark Laird
The history of the modern landscape begins with the paradigmatic shifts in gardening that were…
North American Seacoasts and Landscapes: Discovery Period to the Present
John R. Stilgoe
Selected topics in the history of the North American coastal zone, including the seashore as…