ARCH428N

Prerequisite: ARCH225 and ARCH226. Jointly offered with ARCH628N. Credit only granted for: ARCH428N or ARCH628N. Medieval Europe and the Mediterranean produced a unique building culture in which design was flexible and deeply grounded in the act of construction. In this class, we will trace the diversity of Byzantine, Islamic, Romanesque and Gothic architecture through select case studies.Students will learn to unravel buildings in terms of phases of construction, relate each phase to a different social or political context, and describe the structural technologies that medieval masons rightly flaunted.