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Introduction to the World History of Architecture
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Introduction to the World History of Architecture

Architecture from around the globe.
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 9/2023
English

What you'll learn

  • Introduction to the World History of Architecture
  • Explore Architecture from the Non-Western Tradition
  • Value world cultural heritage.
  • Open to traveling and studying architecture throughout the world.

Course content

1 section • 12 lectures • 1h 58m total length

  • Introduction4:03

    Explore global architecture beyond Western canon. Trace African, Indian architecture (Mughal and Taj Mahal), vastu shastra, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Islamic, and American traditions, with links to courses by subject.

  • World Architecture History 25:41

    Explore the Efé pygmies’ rainforest architecture, where circular huts and hemispherical forms meet bent-branch arches, revealing sustainable design, circle-based village layouts, and early fractal scaling in human architecture.

  • World Architecture History 314:54

    Explore the Konark sun temple in Orissa, a 13th-century nagara temple famed for life-celebrating dancing figures and monumental sculpture carved by subtraction and addition.

  • World Architecture History 49:17

    Explore the Taj Mahal as the pinnacle of Mughal architecture, a marble-clad mausoleum with inlay work, commissioned by Shah Jahan for Mumtaz Mahal along the Yamuna River.

  • World Architecture History 59:10

    Explore Vastu Shastra's orientation principles, center courtyards, and open yet private living spaces that breathe with the environment, the lungs of the house, turning dwellings into shrines.

  • World Architecture History 66:28

    Explore Chinese roofing systems across dynasties, detailing flush gable, overhanging gable, hip, and pyramidal roofs with glazed tiles.

  • World Architecture History 712:28

    Visit Shimogamo shrine in Kyoto's old growth forest to see daily shrine functions, shimenawa, ablution water, and Buddhist and Shinto architecture, including gates, rockwork, and stages.

  • World Architecture History 810:13

    Explore Kyoto gardens, from austere zen karesansui to engawa corridors, tracing their Asuka period origins, Chinese influence, and symbols like turtles, cranes, Horai, and Daoism.

  • World Architecture History 96:28

    Explore six traditional craft homes at Vsechny Mandra village, highlighting wood framing, foundations, and ornate trims, with pediment details, balconies, and roof forms.

  • World Architecture History 109:59

    Explore islamic religious architecture through minarets, four iwan plans, pishtaq, mihrab, and domes. See geometric patterns, arabesques, calligraphy, and brick tilework that recall Hagia Sophia and highlight ablution fountains.

  • World Architecture History 1120:25

    Explore how Maya pyramids fuse form, function, and beauty as ceremonial centers. Trace Olmec origins to Calakmul and Palenque, where pyramids serve as tombs, lookouts, and astronomical observatories.

  • Course Catalog9:23

    Explore the course catalog in the world history of architecture to understand the key offerings and study paths of this program.

Requirements

  • There are no requirements or prerequisites for this course.

Description

This course is an overview of the World History of Achitecture. It serves as a guideline for the courses on specific periods and styles of architecture.

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 firsthand 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.

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