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The city of Rome is our classroom for this survey course on the architecture and urban history of the eternal city from early antiquity to the present day. Rome is exceptional in that it represents more than 2800 years of built history. Through a study of the developments in architecture and urban form of the city of Rome, students will gain an understanding of the key historical and cultural events that informed the development and design of the city during Antiquity, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, the ‘Risorgimento’, and the Fascist era. Historical, cultural, political and religious ideologies that in turn shaped Western architecture and urban form will be discussed. Interrelationships between architecture and urban design, as well as the ‘multi-layeredness’ of each of these significant periods will also be looked at. There is a strong emphasis in this course between the interrelationships between architecture, urban form and the history and culture of a people. This course is taught both in the classroom and on-site with additional field trips.
