Course overview
This course will develop students' foundational knowledge of Western architecture and design through a chronological account of architecture and interior architecture's shared histories. Students will be introduced to the relationship between design, culture, and environment through the study of architectural history - from Ancient Greece to the Arts and Craft movement of the nineteenth century. Students will develop skills to critically recognise, analyse, and communicate key narratives and themes underpinning the development of pre-Modernist architecture, interiors, and landscapes and their relationship to contemporary society.
Course learning outcomes
- Evaluate the built environment (ideological, cultural, contextual, and spatio-temporal) and apply this knowledge in the development of simple discursive arguments
- Apply basic knowledge and skills of structured, written arguments about architecture and design that draws on historical precedent
- Develop knowledge of the history of Western architecture and design in Europe from antiquity to the nineteenth-century
- Develop knowledge of the primary narrative themes and concepts in the history and theory of Western architecture and design