
Explore the essentials of romanesque architecture through a guided tour of key sites across France, Germany, and Spain. Join an architectural pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
Discover romanesque architecture from 8th to 12th centuries, featuring a latin cross floor plan, round arches, vaults, ambulatory aisles, and relic pilgrimage that shaped medieval religious life.
Explore how the round headed Roman arch channels gravity through the keystone, impost, and pier, and learn about barrel vaults and growing vaults used in Romanesque architecture.
Explore romanesque architecture through the apse, nave, arches on corbel tables, and the abbey of Cluny, using simple geometric forms like prisms and cylinders.
Explore the early romanesque pilgrimage church of St. fly, built over her tomb with relics for pilgrims seeking healing, featuring ambulatory, engaged buttresses, groin and barrel vaults.
Discover how St. Philip church exemplifies romanesque architecture with rustic brick finish, heavy mortar, and rough cut masonry that reveal the hand of medieval builders.
Explore Cologne's Romanesque churches within the city walls, many rebuilt after World War II to their pre-bombing Gothic interiors, with St Cecilia's church featuring arches on corbel tables.
Explore Avila, a living medieval city, through a small Romanesque chapel of Sun Segundo, noting thick walls, recessed doorways, rustic stonework, and later buttresses that alter its line.
Explore a very simple romanesque church in Avila, Spain, with a solid base, weight transferred directly to the ground, minimal buttresses, and restrained capitals and carving.
Travel to Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain, and explore its medieval church, relics, and a pilgrims mass to understand the romanesque architecture legacy.
Explore the Romanesque revival through notable buildings by H. H. Richardson and others, examining arches, rusticated stone, and colorful masonry that define neo-Romanesque craftsmanship.
Explore the course catalog for romanesque architecture. Let the caption's 'and so' and 'this' cues guide your reading of the catalog.
This is a course on Romanesque Architecture. Romanesque Architecture is an architecture from the Middle Ages. This course is an Architectural Pilgrimage in search of the classic and elusive Romanesque Architecture. At the end of this course you will be able to recognize and appreciate buildings designed in the Romanesque style. 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.