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 they impinge on and reveal broader concerns about how we see the world, how we understand the world, how we communicate ideas in the world, and how we represent and embody those imaginaries. These lectures consider the global history of architectural representations from prehistory to the present. It is developed as a 6-course unit from which sections or entire lectures can be used for lectures where architectural representations are key. Many of the lecture are too long for an hour-long course and those using them will have to cut out what they feel least applicable to their courses at the time. Lectures are divided roughly chronologically. They cover a number of issues about the uses of architectural representations. The goal is for architectural drawings and representations to be understood as at least as fertile an area of exploration as buildings themselves within a global history. At the same time that these units are meant to contribute to the goals of creating global his...