Architectural history from antiquity through the eighteenth century emphasizing buildings in their cultural context as informed by social, technological, and constructive factors and theoretical positions.

The course frames the city as material and social space, focusing on everyday experience in exemplary cities to explore how they are conceived and negotiated.

Intermediate architectural design projects exploring the inter-relationships of various programmatic models, normative building types, and technological themes within specific physical, urban and cultural contexts.

An intensive on-site investigation of the role that the arts and architecture have played in the development of classical Greek civilization