Spring 2022

Ewa Lajer-Burcharth A series of team-taught workshops designed to sharpen skills in the observation, analysis, and historical interpretation of works of art and architecture. Enrollment open only to incoming graduate students in History of Art and...

Required of juniors concentrating in History of Art and Architecture. A group tutorial consisting of weekly meetings with a graduate student, with regular reading and writing assignments. HAA 98ar offers concentrators the choice of several study groups...

Jennifer Roberts and Faculty Required of all History of Art and Architecture concentrators in their sophomore year. An introduction to the practice of art and architectural history through object-based teaching led by faculty members in HAA.

Melissa McCormick This interdisciplinary and team-taught course provides an introduction to several of the approaches and methods through which the societies and cultures of East Asia can be studied at Harvard, including history, philosophy, literary...

Elle Gerdeman 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 about designing buildings, but also about...

Zach Seibold, Ian Miley 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 scales. Design, the bringing together...

Seminar offered under special arrangements consisting of weekly meetings with designated faculty, where regular reading and writing assignments are focused on a topic of mutual interest.

Thomas Cummins, Alejandro de la Fuente, This seminar explores how visual artists and the visual arts have contributed to debates on race, citizenship, and nation in Latin America, from the colonial period to the present. We approach the history of art in...

Steffani Bennett This seminar offers students an immersive exploration of the life and work of Sesshū Tōyō (1420 – ca. 1506), one of Japan’s most celebrated painters who has been little studied outside of his home country. Throughout the course, we will...

Eugene Wang Artefacts unearthed from ancient Chinese tombs gravitate toward a biocentric universe. Its enabling force is the vital energy (qi or pneuma), which structures the early imagination of both the microcosm of the body and the macrocosm of the...