MIT 613 - Historical port cities and architecture in the Mediterranean

Course Objectives

1.Conception of the relation between geography, history, city and architecture.
2.Multidisciplinary analysis of historical buildings.

Course Description

Elements shaping port cities in the Mediterranean: communication, stratifications of culture and multi-culture. Powers of the Mediterranean: port cities and architecture in the Roman Empire, in the Byzantine Empire, in the Ottoman Empire periods. Latins: port cities and architecture; Two focus in the history of Mediterranean: Venice and Istanbul. Analysis of a historical port city: urban history; public spaces, public buildings; religion architecture; examples of civil architecture.