ARTH 001D. First-Year Seminar: Architecture of Philadelphia

Virtually no other city in the Western hemisphere provides a richer cross-section of architecture over the past 350 years than Philadelphia. The city’s material culture tells the story not just of this region but of our nation, from William Penn’s utopian New World, to America’s 19th-century economic and artistic flowering, to Philadelphia’s importance as a mid-20th-century crucible of city planning and post-modern design, to the city’s role in shaping the early 21st century. In this discussion-based, first-year seminar we will explore the architecture and urbanism of this wondrous city through scholarly and popular literature as well as through regular walking tours of the city, especially its neighborhoods, parks, and museums
Writing course.
1 credit.
Spring 2015. Morton.
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