Time Schedule:
Ann C Huppert
ARCH 498
Seattle Campus
Instructor-initiated and department-approved systematic study and offering of specialized subject matter. Topics vary and are announced in preceding quarter.
Class description
The diverse cities of Florence, Cairo, Rome, Istanbul, and Venice all prospered during the period we have come to define as the Renaissance. Historians traditionally have looked to the Italian peninsula when characterizing the architectural culture during the centuries that followed the Black Plague. Yet cultural encounters across the Mediterranean and interactions between the Islamic and Christian worlds defined the built environment of the region’s major urban centers. Through the lens of the built environment, this course will explore cultural developments in the city-states of Florence, Rome, and Venice, and the major urban centers of the Ottoman Empire of Western Asia and the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, looking in particular at intercultural relations. Our guide for this exploration will be a series of readings by scholars who recently have begun to challenge the traditional definition of the Renaissance period. The course will offer an in-depth examination of aspects of the architecture and urban contexts of the late Medieval and Renaissance periods, and students will be expected to bring some knowledge to the course through prior completion of an introductory survey of the architecture or art of the time period, such as ARCH 351 or ART H 202.
Student learning goals
General method of instruction
lectures, readings, class discussions
Recommended preparation
Class assignments and grading
