Spring 2021

Suzanne Blier Mondays, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm This seminar investigates critical issues in Africa's rich urban centers. Architecture, city planning, spatial framing, popular culture, and new art markets will be examined.

Felipe Pereda Mondays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm This course is about two things. First it’s an introductory course to the art of Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) at the time of the Enlightenment and early Romanticism. It will look into his formation in the...

Margaret Grasselli Fridays, 12:00 pm - 2:45 pm This course, taught from original drawings in the collection of the Harvard Art Museums, explores a broad range of topics associated with the materials, functions, preservation, collecting, exhibiting, and...

Ioli Kalavrezou Wednesdays, 3:00 pm - 5:45 pm The seminar will investigate an architectural masterpiece, the famous 6th c. Church of Hagia Sophia of Constantinople, now Istanbul.The monument stands at the forefront of the supreme architectural...

Jeffrey Hamburger Wednesdays, 9:00 am - 11:45 am The development of European architecture through the cathedral’s construction, transformation, and restoration in dialogue with its changing urban context, as well as debates over its reconstruction...

Evridiki Georganteli Mondays, 9:00 am - 11:45 am This course explores the extraordinary cultural transformation of Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East underwent from Diocletian's reorganization of the Roman Empire in the late third century to...

Seung Hee Oh, Instructor Tuesdays, 3 pm - 5 pm Group tutorial, offers concentrators the choice of several study groups investigating a particular field of art of architectural history. Required of concentrators, generally in the Junior year. The three...

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:30 pm - 4:15 pm Elle Gerdeman, Instructor The practice of architecture fundamentally asks us to continuously engage with, and re-conceptualize, the world for which we are designing. As such, architecture as a discipline is not only...

Mondays & Fridays, 1:30 pm - 4:15 pm Zach Seibold, Instructor Architecture assembles multiple models, surfaces, and materials; it is not a single monolithic thing, rather it is comprised of disparate parts and organizational systems operating at different...

Eugene Wang Mondays & Wednesdays, 12:00 pm - 1:15 pm China is grasped through twelve artworks, spanning three millennia from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century. These artworks form both a timeline and a jigsaw puzzle with recurrent themes, e.g., the...