In a remarkable convergence of creative genius and technological advancement, some of the world’s most acclaimed works of architecture were built in a period of just 20 years. This period, from ...

Arch 252, History and Theory of Architecture 4, is the fourth course in a required four-semester sequence of history-theory courses for Architecture majors. This discussion-based course examines the ...

Introduction -- Pioneers -- Rhetoric (building with a message) -- Sacred -- Urban visions -- Big and beautiful -- Material matters -- Lost and found -- Glossary ...

In both cases, we observe the construction of an identity consolidated over decades — or even centuries — supported by a set of factors that inscribe them into history. Not only because of the ...

In September, 1639, John Winthrop, the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, recorded in his journal a dreadful tale of Puritan true crime. One Robert Keayne had prospered as a London merchant ...

Arch 152, History and Theory of Architecture 2, is the second course in a required four-semester sequence of history-theory courses for Architecture majors. This discussion-based course examines the ...

In the spring of 1979, in my second semester of college teaching (as a visiting assistant professor of history at Oberlin), an absolutely brilliant undergraduate wrote a scathing critique of ...

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