MIM 222 - History of European Architecture

Course Objectives

Introduction of European Architecture and its teories.

Course Description

The concept of style. Medieval period as a phenomenon and its changing image Romanesque architecture. The process of structuralization of masonary architecture towards Gothic. The conditions of the genesis of the Renaissance: Capitalism and Humanism. The re-emergence of the urban culture. The shift from the regularity of the Renaissance to the subjectivitiy of Mannerism and its reasons. The complexity of architecture during the periods of Baroque and Rococo: Total and multi-layered design. The introduction of light and spatial effects in architecture. Absolutism, palace and city. The architecture of Ottoman Westernization period. The first appearance of Modernity: The architecture of Enlightenment. Historicist pluralism. Endustrial revolution: New materials and building types in architecture. The city of the 19th century.