Architecture 170A - Lectures


Fall 1997 
 

Aug. 28

Pre-Midterm Lectures

Sept. 2

The Rise of Cities in Mesopotamia

Sept. 4

Old Kingdom Beginnings of Egyptian Architecture: Mortuary Architecture

Sept. 9

Architecture and Urbanism In Ancient Egypt

Sept. 11

Buildings and Cities in Africa, Asia, North America and MesoAmerica (2000-600 BCE)

Sept. 16

The Beginnings of a European Civilization: Crete and Mycenae

Sept. 18

The Greek Temple and Sacred Precinct

Sept. 23

Greek and Hellenistic Urbanism

Sept. 25

Asia ca. 600-200 BCE: Religion, Philosophy and Empire

Sept. 30

Teotihuacan and Ancient Mesoamerica

Oct. 2

Rome and Roman Architecture

Oct. 7

Roman Architecture and Urbanism

Oct. 9

Early Christian Architecture

Oct. 14

Byzantium

Oct. 21

Temple Architecture in India and South East Asia

Oct. 23

Chinese Traditions in Architecture

Oct. 28

Japan: Native Beginnings and Buddhist Transformation

Oct. 30

Mesoamerica: The Mayas

Nov. 4

Masonry Structures in North America, South America, and Africa

Nov. 6

Architecture of Islam

Nov. 11

European Architecture in the Early Middle Ages

Nov. 13

Medieval Countryside and Cities

Nov. 18

Medieval Urbanism

Nov. 20

Masonry Structures in Europe: Romanesque and Gothic

Nov. 25

Gothic Architecture in Northern France

Dec. 2

High and Late Gothic Architecture