ARTH 073. Global History of Architecture: 1800-Present

This survey will visit some of the major structures, events, and innovations that defined the global built environment in the last six centuries, beginning with the Renaissance and its contemporaries and extending through Modernism. Our consideration will go beyond a history of style to examine the built environment as a product of and force acting on its broader social, political, and cultural contexts. We will pay attention to architecture and urbanism from the place of work to the place of leisure; from sites belonging to the very powerful to those belonging to the disenfranchised; and from those designed by well-known figures to those without known designers. Themes will include power, belief, technology, industrialization, trade, patronage, professionalization, identity, empire, and urbanization.

Note: This course is an Introductory Survey Course
Arts and Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for GLBL-core
Spring 2025. Goldstein.
Catalog chapter: Art History
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/art-history

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