History of architecture

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History of architecture (V360): Historical study of building design and architectural movements.

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Title	Description	Keywords	Full details
Furnishings and Interiors 1850 to the Present Day	The furnishings and interiors of the recent past reflect a changing domestic culture. This illustrated course will explore domestic life and...	Interior design, Interiors, Furnishings, Furniture, Designers, Twentieth-century, Nineteenth-century, Victorian	view
Learning to Look at Western Architecture	This course is designed to enable students to ‘read’ the architecture of the Western world in a critically informed way. You will learn to...	Architecture, Classicism, Gothic, History	view
The Architecture of Cairo	A sumptuously illustrated overview of the historical and cultural development of the architecture of Cairo – spanning the entire period from its...		view
Architectus - architectural drawings online	The Architectus archive contains unique student designs from the 1930s to the 1950s and work from famous post-war architects like...		view
Roman Architecture	This course provides a general introductory overview of the history of Roman architecture. The course units consist of guided links to other HE...	Roman architecture, Rome	view
Frank Lloyd Wright	A neatly produced historical and critical overview of the life and work of Lloyd Wright		view
Analysis of Contemporary Architecture	A heavily text-oriented course provided by MIT, which explores the work of some of the most canonical architects of the Modernist generation....		view
Exploring a Romano-African City	A well contextualised introduction to the Romano-African city of Thugga, provided by the Open University	Roman architecture, Rome	view
Arts of Asia	A very wide-ranging introductory-historical overview of the visual and material arts of China, India and Japan. This course contains links to a...		view
Modernist Architecture: Roots (1920 – 1929)	A brief, yet interesting, exploration of the innovations produced by such key early Modernist architects as Louis Sullivan, Mies Van Der Rohe, and...		view

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