HAA 0040 Introduction to Western Architecture

(offered at least once a year)

This course introduces students to western architecture from the ancient world until today. The course works both chronologically--as a history of phases and styles--and methodologically, examining the contextual issues that gave each period its distinctive architecture. Students who take this course will understand fundamental developments in our western architectural heritage and be ready to make critical judgments on buildings. The course prepares students, if they wish to take more specialized studies in the history of architecture or in any other branch of art history.