Spring 2023

Jeffrey Hamburger & HAA Faculty A series of team-taught workshops designed to sharpen skills in the observation, analysis, and historical interpretation of works of art and architecture.

Graduate student led 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...

Jennifer Roberts & HAA 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...

Ian Miley, Rand Abu-Al-Sha'r, Daniel Haidermota 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...

Ian Miley, Leonard Palmer, Elsa Maki 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...

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.

Jennifer Roberts Limited to juniors and seniors. Students wishing to enroll must petition the Head Tutor for approval, stating the proposed project, and must have the permission of the proposed instructor.

Thomas Cummings Cuzco, once the center of the Inca Empire, became a major colonial Peruvian city unlike any other in which the royal descendants of the Inca lived and ruled along with Spaniards. In 1650 an earthquake destroyed most of the city’s buildings...

Makeda Best, Mary Schneider Enriquez Practicing art history in today’s increasingly mobile art world—whether as a field curator, academic researcher, critic, or other professional specialism—requires museum literacy, intellectual empathy, and the ability...