Course Description

Instructor: Jerome Cooper, BA Architecture, FAIA, Fulbright Scholar, and Visiting Artist at American Academy, Rome

Based upon the theory that the profiles societies leave down through history is based upon their structure; their values (i.e., the laws they lived under and the Gods they worshipped) and the technology that was available to them…then the buildings which were built to serve them reflected these three qualities. This course will relate these qualities to the architecture of each society beginning with Ancient Egypt; Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome; Early Christian; Romanesque; Gothic; Renaissance; and continuing up to modern times. The suggestion is that buildings do talk...but while most of us see them we do not listen to them.