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Byzantine Architecture
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Byzantine Architecture

The Art, Design and Architecture of Byzantium
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 2/2026
English
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What you'll learn

  • This is a course on Byzantine Architecture
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course promotes self-learning.
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 37m total length

  • Introduction2:34

    Explore the development of Byzantine architecture from the fall of the Roman Empire to its spread across the Mediterranean and into Russia, influencing art, design, and Islamic architecture.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 27:26

    Explore how incompetent emperors, infighting, and corruption weakened Rome, the rise of Constantinople as capital, and the sacking by Visigoths, vandals, and Huns that marked imperial decline.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 34:27

    Trace the rise of Byzantium into the Byzantine Empire, centered on Constantinople after Constantine's renaming, and note Justinian's building of Hodja Sophia and the empire's expansion to Istanbul.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 46:43

    Explore roman precedents, including the Pantheon by Hadrian and Gala Plessy mausoleum in Ravenna, noting the rotated arch, portico mismatch, octagonal plan, dome, and mosaics.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 57:02
  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 613:13

    Explore how Byzantine churches use a centralized plan with domes on pendentives and cross-in-square forms, featuring apses facing east, rich iconography, and a compact interior lit by a decorative program.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 78:25

    Explore the church of the holy savior in Qatar, Turkey as a classic Byzantine church with a central dome, brick belting to a circular keystone, and frescoed interiors.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 812:47
  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 93:14

    Explore how Byzantine design principles endure in modern architecture through domes on pendentives, clear-story domes, and Gothic-inspired details in the church of San Juan and related works.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 1011:45

    Explore the byzantine architecture of St. Georges Serbian Orthodox Church through a guided site visit, highlighting mosaics, dome on pendants, chandeliers, and iconic interior art.

  • Byzantine Architecture Lecture 119:59

    Explore an Istanbul mosque as a study in Islamic religious architecture. Highlight minarets, the four E1 plan, brick domes on pendent arches, and decorative geometric patterns and arabesques.

  • Course Catalog9:46

    Explore the course catalog for Byzantine architecture, outlining the study framework and key topics within this field.

Requirements

  • There are no prerequisites for this course other than an interest in Architecture.

Description

This is a course on Byzantine Architecture. The architecture developed during the Byzantine Empire is one of the most influential and important in Architectural History. The Byzantine Empire followed the Roman Empire and set cannons of design that have perdured to this day. Byzantine architecture is characterized by a unique structural and ornamental design language. Every building discussed in this course has been personally studied, visited and graphically documented by me. So everything in this course comes to you directly from the horses mouth. I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone interested in Architecture and Byzantine Architecture in particular.

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