Jun 15, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024

AH 3530 - Early Modern Architecture: 15th - 18th Centuries


This course examines global building practices in Europe, the Americas, and Asia between the 15th and 18th centuries. Our selected themes include: nation building and globalization, landscape architecture and garden design, new technologies, the social history of public and private spaces, and the persistence of classicism as an architectural style and theory.

Requisites: Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to critically assess and comment on own writing and writing of others.
  • Students will be familiarized with Renaissance and Baroque architectural trends.
  • Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the historical, social, and cultural contexts of selected art monuments.
  • Students will have knowledge of materials, technologies, and processes used in selected architecture of the period.
  • Students will have knowledge of scholarly resources appropriate to the research topics, including printed and electronic sources.


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