This course is comprised of one lectures, one handout, and one quiz to assess the students’ grasp of the material. The course will focus on the advent of the Islamic religion as it pertains to...

This series of lectures focuses on architectural models and drawings. These representations engender much more than the buildings they may show. They have their own history and development, and...

Islamic art and architecture, like any other form of art that attempts to characterize the material production of a particular faith or variety of cultures over the longue durée, simply cannot ...

El arte y la arquitectura islámicos, como cualquier otra forma de arte que intente caracterizar la producción material de una fe particular o una variedad de culturas a lo largo de una “longue ...

There remains a dearth of UG-focused, accessible material on non-vernacular African Architecture. A number of authors have now produced research papers and books covering various aspects of col...

This Module is the product of a special call for lectures on the topic of Anti-Racism and Global Architectural History - July 2020 GAHTC stands in solidarity with ongoing protests for racial...

Imaginaries about Latin America place it at a considerable distance from the Islamic World. Languages, religions and cultural paradigms lead us to associate Latin America either with the Occide...

Los imaginarios sobre América Latina la ubican a una considerable distancia del Mundo islámico. Lenguajes, religiones y paradigmas culturales nos permiten asociar a América Latina con Occidente...

This lecture explores the ways in which architecture and built environments are used as a medium for social and political agenda, particularly in the Asian context. Since the 19th century, mode...

This lecture examines the general concepts and principles of “the spirit of place” and “critical regionalism”. It looks at a few representative examples of architecture from different parts of ...

This course module focuses on the architecture and urbanism of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda. The historical narratives of these three countries, which once comprise...

This module delves into Colombian history of architecture during the first half of the 20th century by investigating the relationship between the country’s modernization and the process of nati...